. Almighty God, our Heavenly Father,
J. R. Miller, Family Prayers. Almighty
God, our Heavenly Father, look upon us graciously as we wait
at your feet. You have given us many invitations
to come to you. You have invited us to come with
our sins, to come with our troubles, to come with our mistakes, to
come with our cares, to come with our sorrows. You have told
us to come at all times, that we should never be unwelcome,
never be turned away, and never find You are too busy to hear
us. You have promised us mercy for
our sins, comfort for our sorrows, strength for our duties, and
wisdom for our ignorance, when we come to You. We thank you
for all these precious invitations and assurances. What would we
do, O God, if we might not thus come to you? To whom else could
we go? There is no other in all the
universe who could help us, as we must be helped. Our hearts
are full of praise and rejoicing that we may thus come to you.
There is nothing we cannot bring to you, nothing too small to
bring, and nothing too large. We thank you that we are so blessed,
that we have all your divine love and grace to help us in
our times of need. We need no other help but yours. We come now with all our burdens. We have many sins. These are
our worst burdens. They will sink us to eternal
despair unless we find help. We thank You that the Lord Jesus
paid for our sins and bore them away. In His name, depending
upon His atonement, we come with our sins. We have other needs. We are not strong enough for
duty. We cannot stand against the ensnaring world and the power
of Satan. We have no wisdom for life's
problems, its duties, its responsibilities. We need strength. We need wisdom. We need grace for every moment. So we come to You, our Father,
as Your redeemed children. Receive us, bless us, keep us,
help us, we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Let us then approach the throne
of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and
find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4.16