We bless you for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life;
but above all, for your inestimable love
in the redemption of the world
by our Lord Jesus Christ;
for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. –Book o’ Common Pryr
Philip. 4:6
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Believers don’t pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting Him to do His duty, or of urging Him as though He were reluctant. On the contrary, we pray in order that we may arouse ourselves to seek Him, that we may exercise faith in meditating on His promises, that we may relieve ourselves from anxieties by pouring them into His bosom; in a word, that we may declare that from Him alone we hope and expect, both for ourselves and for others, all good things.
--John Calvin
Thou art coming
to a King;
Large petitions
with thee bring.
--John Newton, i think
