11/20/2013

Deeper Trust: A Puritan Prayer

Give me a deeper trust, that I may lose myself to find myself in You, the ground of my rest, the spring of my being. Give me a deeper knowledge of Yourself as Savior, Master, Lord, and King. Give me deeper power in private prayer, more sweetness in Your Word, more steadfast grip on its truth. Give me deeper holiness in speech, thought, action, and let me not seek moral virtue apart from You. 

-The Valley of Vision

DALLAS WILLARD’S PARAPHRASE OF THE LORD’S PRAYER

  Dear Father always near us, may your name be treasured and loved, may your rule be completed in us— may your will be done here on earth in...