Blessed fountain of life, I reward you on your very important breath of life!
Bless my life with progress in grace,
and improve my data of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Lengthen my endurance,
strengthen my soul in humility and zeal,
and set my coronary heart and thoughts on issues above.
I starvation and thirst on your righteousness.
Heavenly Father, train me to do what pleases you,
lead me by your gracious Spirit,
and renew your holy picture inside me.
I ask and hope by way of Jesus Christ our Lord,
in whom now we have acquired all of the fullness of your grace. Amen.
Supply: Freely modified from a prayer by Philip Doddridge (1702-1751) in Prayers Historical and Fashionable, p. 238 (August 25).
Unique in conventional English:
O Thou ever blessed fountain of life, I bless Thee that Thou hast infused into me Thine personal very important breath, in order that I’m develop into a dwelling soul. It’s my earnest need that I could not solely stay, however develop; develop in grace, and within the data of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Could I develop in endurance and fortitude of soul, in humility and zeal, in spirituality and a heavenly disposition of thoughts. In a phrase, as Thou knowest I starvation and thirst after righteousness, make me no matter Thou wouldest delight to see me. Draw on my soul, by the mild influences of Thy gracious Spirit, each hint and each function which Thine eye, O heavenly Father, might survey with pleasure, and which Thou mayest acknowledge as Thine personal picture. I ask and hope it by way of Him of whose fulness now we have all acquired — Amen.
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