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Enable me, O God, to collect and compose my thoughts
before an immediate approach to you in prayer.
May I be careful to have my mind in order
when I take upon myself the honour to speak
to the Sovereign Lord of the universe,
remembering that upon the temper of my soul
depends, in very great measure, my success.
You are infinitely too great to be trifled with,
to wise to be imposed on by a mock devotion,
and abhor a sacrifice without a heart.
Help me to entertain an habitual sense of your perfections,
as an admirable help against cold and formal performances.
Save me from engaging in rash and precipitate prayers
and from abrupt breaking away
to follow business or pleasure
as though I had never prayed.
Susanna Wesley, 1669-1742, mother of John & Charles Wesley, founders of Methodism
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The Lord is righteous in all his ways
and kind in all his works.
and kind in all his works.
The Lord is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.
He fulfills the desire of those who fear him;
he also hears their cry and saves them.
to all who call on him in truth.
He fulfills the desire of those who fear him;
he also hears their cry and saves them.
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