Let's open tonight's service
with hymn number 19 in your softback hymnal. Number 19, Who is a God
like unto thee? Let's all stand together. Who is a God like unto Thee,
that pardoneth iniquity? Jehovah God, the great I Am,
forgives our sins through Christ the Lamb. Who is a God like unto Thee that
pardoneth iniquity? His anger he retains no more,
His grace and mercy shall endure. The God of truth must punish
sin, but in His love He formed a plan. To satisfy the law's
demands, For sinners numerous as the sands, Who is a God like
unto Thee, That pardoneth iniquity? His anger He retains no more,
His grace and mercy shall endure. Behold His love and compassion
In the death of Christ His Son. The precious sin atoning blood
Reveals the love and truth of God, who is a God like unto thee,
that pardoneth iniquity, his anger he Retains no more, His
grace and mercy shall endure. He passes by the transgressions
of all his loved and chosen ones. In mercy God delights we see. He casts our sins into the sea. Who is a God like unto Thee,
That pardoneth iniquity? His anger He retains no more,
His grace and mercy shall endure. Thank you. None can with our
great God compare. He gave his son sinners to spare. His anger he retains no more. Christ died and God requires
no more. Who is a God like unto thee that
pardoneth iniquity? His anger he retains no more. His grace and mercy shall endure. Please be seated. I'd like for us to read from John
chapter 6. John chapter 6. Good evening. What a great God we serve. God
of grace. Puts away all our sins and remembers
them no more. John chapter 6 verse 35, and
Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life. He that cometh
to me shall never hunger. He'll never have to go anywhere
else for his righteousness. And he that believeth on me shall
never thirst. Never have to Try to find peace
with God anywhere else other than the Lord Jesus Christ. But
I said unto you that ye also have seen me and believe not. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me. And him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out. No one's ever come to Christ
has been turned away. For I came down from heaven,
not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. And
this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which
he hath given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it
up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that
sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son, and believeth
on him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up.
at the last day. Deanna Horton got real sick in
Las Vegas when they were moving and she really hadn't recovered.
Yesterday she had to go to the hospital and spent the night
there. Last night just went home about an hour ago and she's doing
much better. I wanted you all to know about
that so you could pray for her and encourage them. Let's pray
together. Truly, our Heavenly Father, there
is no other God like unto Thee. We rejoice in knowing that You
change not, that You have established an unchangeable covenant between
You and Your Son, the Holy Spirit, and Thy people to redeem us unto
Thyself. We take great hope and comfort
in knowing, Father, that you are satisfied with the work that
the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished on our behalf. We ask now that
you would send your Holy Spirit, enable us to find our rest, all
our righteousness, all our hungering and thirsting to be fulfilled
in him. Lord, that you would do for us
tonight like you did to the children of Israel in the wilderness,
and open the windows of heaven, and allow the bread of life to
fall. We might feast on thy man and be satisfied. We thank you
for Deanna and Robert. Lord, thank you for bringing
them to be a part of our fellowship. And thank you for the ministry
of the hospital and doctors and nurses today. for giving Deanna
a strength and enabling her to go home. We pray, Lord, that
you would keep your hand of strength upon her and bring her to her
full health. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Let's stand together again. And
we'll sing hymn number 352 from the hardback. 352. Let's all
stand. Jesus, lover of my soul, let
me to thy bosom fly. While the nearer waters roll,
while the tempest still is high, hide me, O my Savior, hide. Till the storm of life is past,
Safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last. Other refuge have I none, hangs
my helpless soul on Thee. Leave, ah leave me not alone,
still support and comfort me. All my trust on Thee is stayed,
all my help from Thee I bring. Cover my defenseless head with
the shadow of Thy wing. Thou, O Christ, art all I want,
more than all in Thee I find. Raise the fallen, cheer the faint,
heal the sick and lead the blind. Just and holy is thy name. I am all unrighteousness. False and full of sin I am, Thou
art full of truth and grace. Plenteous grace with Thee is
found, Grace to cover all my sin. Let the healing streams
abound, Make and keep me pure with Please be seated. If you'll turn with me in your
Bibles to Psalm 80. Psalm 80. It's been a while since
we looked at this psalm. My hope tonight is that the Lord
will cause us to pray more frequently than we do that he would save
us. I wonder how many times today
have you asked the Lord to save you? If we were as conscious of our
need for salvation as we really are, it would be a continual
prayer. Notice with me in verse three,
turn us again, oh God, and cause thy face to shine and we shall
be saved. How prone we are to turn away
from him, to be distracted and enthralled with the things of
this world. and how often we need to ask
the Lord, Lord, turn us, turn us again, and again, and again,
and we shall be turned. Cause thy face to shine upon
us, and we shall be saved. Coming to Christ that we looked
at Sunday, to whom coming? Salvation is not a one-time experience. It's our walk of faith. We're always in need of being
saved from our sin. We're in need of being reminded
of what the Lord has done to save us from the wrath that is
to come, the penalty of sin, and how he's put that away. That
becomes the foundation of our hope. That becomes the strength
of our faith, believing what we just sang. that the Lord would
put away our sin once and for all, bury them in the depths
of the sea, and remember them no more. Lord, save me from the
penalty of sin. Cause me to set my hope on Christ
and to find in his finished work all my desire and all my salvation. Lord, I live in a world that
Well, you called Satan the prince of the power of the heirs. You've
given him, I know that he's your devil, but he has such a grip
on this world, and he's a foe that is too strong for me. He's
an enemy I cannot stand up to. Lord, I need to be saved from
him. The wiles of the devil, the deceitfulness of the devil,
all the distractions of the devil that would cause me to find my
comfort and my peace and my hope in something other than Christ.
Lord, save me from Satan. Save me from my sin. Lord, save me from myself. I really do believe myself to
be my number one worst enemy. Lord, I'm capable, oh, very capable
of deceiving myself. The human heart is wicked and
deceitful. Above all things, who can know
it? Lord, if you don't save me from myself and reveal to me
the truth as it is in Christ, I'll believe things about myself
that aren't true. I'll believe myself to be able
to withstand the temptation of sin. I'll believe myself to be
able to bring something to the table of salvation other than
the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. I'll deceive myself.
Save me from sin. Save me from self. Save me from
Satan. Lord, save me from my circumstances. how easily I become disquieted,
how easily I become distracted by the circumstances. I know
you've ordained them for me. I know all things work together
for good for them who love you and those that are called according
to your purpose. But Lord, I forget that. I need to be saved. I need
to be saved from my circumstances. I get so out of sorts when things
don't go the way I think they should. The waters would overflow me,
Lord, if you don't save me. How many times ought we ask the
Lord to save us and to cause his face to shine upon us and
to turn us to himself? How many times ought we to do
that? Oh, we ought never quit doing it, should we? But we don't. We don't. I hope tonight that
the Lord will impress upon our hearts our need to ask him to
save us and that we'll become more needy, more dependent, more
unable to save ourselves and find ourselves crying out with
David, turn us again. and again, and again, and again,
O God, and cause thy face to shine upon us. Enable me to set
my affections on things above, that the gospel would shine in
my heart in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. Cause the light
of the gospel to shine on him, that I could look to him and
rest in him and believe on him for all my righteousness and
all my justification. all my sanctification before
God, oh Lord, save me. You see, our need to be saved
and our need to be turned and our need for Him to shine the
light of the gospel in the face of Christ is much greater than
we are aware of, aren't we? Isn't it? Times are desperate. The problem is we're not. We're
not. Our desperation doesn't measure
up to the actual situation that we're in. We're walking through danger
and we're unaware of it. Unaware of it. What is the grounds of this prayer
for God to save us? We'll find it in the first two
verses. What is the grounds? What reason
do we have to stand and to hope that God would hear such a prayer? Give ear, O shepherd of Israel. The first cause of our salvation
is the love of God. That's the first cause. Everything
about salvation, everything in redemption, everything in regeneration,
everything in justification, everything in sanctification,
everything in election, all begins, it all begins with God setting
his love on us in the covenant of grace according to his own
will and purpose. placing us in Christ and viewing
us in Christ. I have loved you with an everlasting
love. That's the ground upon which
we stand to pray this prayer for the Lord to save us. We have
hope in knowing that he's the shepherd. What is the evidence
that he's loved us? The scripture tells us, God so
loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. No greater
love hath any man than this, that he lay down his life for
the sheep. The good shepherd of the sheep has laid down his
life and we have good hope in knowing that he loves his people. Oh, better than we could imagine.
Better than we could imagine. We don't pray as we ought because
we don't believe that God loves us like he does. We're just like
a rebellious child, a child that gets himself in trouble and they're
afraid to go to their parent. Why? Because they're afraid they're
going to be scolded. They're afraid they're going to be beaten.
They don't know that the parent already knows what they did.
And they're just waiting for the child to come to them so
they can embrace them and love them and comfort them and encourage
them and teach them through that experience. He already knows. What great love. He's loved us
with. What manner of love the Father
hath bestowed upon us, behold, that we should be called the
sons of God. Give ear, O shepherd of Israel. This love that he has for his
people is very particular. It's not a general love. If God
has a general love for everybody, then his love means nothing.
It means nothing. If God loves those who go to
hell in the same way that he loves those who go to heaven,
then we can only conclude that the love of God has absolutely
nothing to do with anyone's salvation. Nothing. That's what the world thinks.
God loves everybody. No, he's the shepherd of Israel. Father, I pray not for them that
are in the world, but I pray for them which thou has given
me out of the world. He laid down his life for the
sheep, not the goats, for those that he calls out and makes to
be princes in the family of God. So the love of God is the first
cause, the first ground of this prayer to be saved. If we could
believe what God has told us about His love for us, His love
for us is not conditioned on anything we do. When God loves, He loves perfectly. We're not like that, are we?
You thought that I was altogether as thyself. We think that God's
love's like our love. When we sin against him or when
we don't believe him as we ought, we think that he's somehow, you
know, we manipulate one another by giving and withdrawing our
love to one another, don't we? We control our circumstances
that way. God never did that. His love
is perfect. It changes not. It's the same
when we're in unbelief and rebellion as it is when we're sitting at
his feet and drinking in the Word of God. You know, it just,
it doesn't change. That thou leadest Joseph like
a flock. Thou leadest Joseph like a flock. thou dwellest between the cherubims. And where were the cherubims?
They were on each side of the Ark of the Covenant, weren't
they? And there's the same angelic figures that we see in Isaiah
chapter 6, hovering over the throne of God, crying, holy,
holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth is filled
with his glory. You think there's any way to
get past those cherubims? You think there's any way to
get past those angelic beings that somehow threatened the throne
of God? No way. No, with two wings they
did fly. They were on edge, ready at any
moment to defend the glory of their God. And so it is with
the mercy seat. When the Lord instructed Moses
to build the Ark of the Covenant, he was to make it out of gopher
wood, a picture of the humanity of Christ. And he was to put
in that Ark the tablets of stone and the rod of Aaron and the
ophir of manna, representing the Lord Jesus Christ as our
prophet, our priest, and our king. And then he was to overlay
the Ark with pure gold, representing his deity. And on top of the
Ark was the mercy seat. hammered out of pure gold and
protected by the cherubim. God told Moses, you take the
blood of the sacrificial lamb on the Day of Atonement and you
go into the holies of holies. Aaron, you go in all by yourself,
the high priest, only one priest, and take the blood and put it
on the mercy seat. God said, here, I will meet with
you. Now, that's exactly what happened
when the Lord Jesus Christ gave himself for the sheep on Calvary's
cross. The blood was put on the mercy
seat, not a mercy seat made of man's hands in the earth, but
the mercy seat that was in heaven. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ
went to that mercy seat. And God said, here, I will meet
with you. So where does he meet with us?
He meets with us on the grounds of the atonement. The atonement,
the sacrificial work of the Lord Jesus Christ to put away our
sin. And we approach God at the mercy seat, right now. Where's
that mercy seat? He's seated at the right hand
of the majesty on high. We come to God in Christ, to
the throne of grace, knowing that his blood has been shed
as a covering for our sin. That the law of God's been fulfilled. The prophet of God has come and
spoken the word of God. We have a priest, whoever lives,
to make intercession for us. But what is the grounds of our
praying to be saved? Are we praying to be saved? Are we asking God, well, somebody,
I know nobody here, but somebody may be listening to this message
and said, well, I asked God to save me, I've already done that.
No, you missed it. All together, you've missed it. Sinners are always in need of
being saved. They never get beyond their need
to be saved. It's just a continual cry. Lord, turn us again. Cause thy
face to shine upon us. And we shall be saved. Lord,
if you turn us and if you cause the face of Christ to shine upon
us, we shall be saved. Here's the ground of that prayer,
the love of God and the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ
and the covenant of God's sovereign electing grace. You say, where
do you get that from? Verse two, verse two. Rachel had two sons, Joseph and
Benjamin. Joseph had two sons, Ephraim
and Manasseh, and the special blessings of God went to those
boys. Joseph didn't have a tribe. The
12 tribes of Israel, Joseph didn't have a tribe. Manasseh and Ephraim
became those tribes. And so we have a picture of God's
electing grace. The fact that God would sovereignly
choose a people gives us grounds to approach God. You see, apart
from election, then we're just coming before God willy-nilly,
hoping that somehow God's going to find something in us that
He's pleased with. But if He's already chosen a
people, and he's already placed his love on them, and he's already
atoned for their sins, then we can come to the throne of grace
with boldness, with confidence, knowing that we have a God who's
touched with the feelings of our infirmities and is able to
give us help in our time of need. Look what he says. before Ephraim
and Benjamin and Manasseh. You see, Lord, before your elect.
He's not asking before the other tribes, these particular tribes,
these elect tribes, these specially blessed tribes. Lord, before
them. Stir up thy strength. Lord, I can't stir my strength
up. I have none. I have no strength. I have no
strength against sin. I have no strength in my circumstances. You know, we make the best decisions
we can make in this world, and most of the time they just, you
know, oh, we get ourselves in such a mess, don't we? We do. Why? Because we have no strength. And the Lord said, you have not
because you ask not. We don't go to him like we ought.
Lord, stir up thy strength and save us. Save me from my sin. Lord, I'll cave into it every
time. Turn us again, O God, and cause
thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. Lord, I'm just sure that if you
turn us, now here's the means by which God answers this prayer. What is it to be turned? What's
another word that we use to describe God turning his people? It's
repentance. Repentance. And the means to
grace, we've often said, there's but one means to grace, and that's
true. But that means is a two-sided
coin. The means to grace is faith.
That's the only means to grace that there is. People say, well,
these are other means that God uses to bestow grace upon his
people. No, grace comes only through
faith. But the flip side to the coin
of faith is repentance. You can't have one without the
other. And so what the Lord's telling us here is the means
by which I'm going to answer this prayer is I'm going to I'm
going to give you the spirit of repentance. I'm going to change
your minds. I'm going to turn you. I'm going
to turn you away from yourself. I'm going to turn you away from
your sin. I'm going to turn you to trust me and your circumstances. I'm going to turn you to cause
my face to shine upon you and deliver you from the power of
darkness. Oh, Lord, God of hosts. Verse four. How long wilt thou
be angry against the prayer of thy people? What David's saying here is that
our prayers have failed. Our prayers have failed. And
we've talked about not praying as we ought, and none of us do.
But how often times when we do pray, we pray amiss. We pray
half-heartedly. We pray in such a way as that
we go through the act of prayer. And, you know, I passed a church the other day,
a religious organization, obviously not the Church of Christ, and
they thought they were clever by putting on their sign, our
church is prayer conditioned. And I thought, what, you know,
how stupid is that? How blasphemous is that? That's the view of prayer that
you have? David says, how long will you
be angry against the prayer of thy people? Lord, my prayers
are so weak and feeble. Look at verse five. Thou feedest
them with the bread of tears and give us them tears to drink
in great measure. Our problems are multiplied,
Lord. Because I'm so full of unbelief,
because I'm so prone, to lose my sight of you? See, these are
all reasons why we need to cry, Lord, turn us again, and again,
and again, and again. And cause thy face to shine upon
us, and we shall be saved. Lord, I need that right now. Why? Because I don't know how
to pray. And my circumstances are such, I don't know what to
do about it. I don't know how to solve the problems I've created
in my life. And you've done it. Thou feedest
them with prayers. Thou art angry with my prayers. Thou feedest them with bread
of tears. Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors, and our enemies
laugh among themselves. Our place in this world is that
of an outcast. the off-scouring of the world.
Lord, I can't find a place to sit down and rest in this world.
It seems like I'm just contrary to everything in this world.
The philosophy of this world, the direction of this world,
the values of this world, they all seem so contrary. And yet
I'm conflicted because on one side I'm being drawn by the things
of this world and being pressed into the mold of this world,
and the other side I realize I don't fit in. What's my answer? Turn me again,
oh God. Cause thy face to shine upon
me. Save me, save me. There it is, look, verse seven.
Turn us again, oh God. Oh God of hosts, and cause thy
face to shine, and we shall be saved. No one has ever prayed that prayer. It's like we saw in that passage
we looked at Sunday. Verse 40 and verse 41 and 42,
no one's ever been a leper pleading with the Lord to heal them that
hasn't been, hasn't discovered the compassion of God. The Lord
said, we just read it in John chapter six, If you come unto
me, I will in what? No wise cast you out. He's never
cast anyone out. Lord, if you turn me and you
cause the gospel to shine in my heart, I know I'll be saved. I'll be saved. Now, verses eight through 11
is a declaration that God's people make to God confessing that all
their problems with sin are their own fault. If the Lord's made you to be
a sinner, you know that's true. You know that your misery with
sin has nothing to do with God or anyone else. Look at verse eight. Thou hast
brought a vine out of Egypt, and hast cast out the heathen,
and planted it. Thou preparest room before it,
and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs
thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs
into the sea, and her branches unto the river. Lord, you, turn
with me to Isaiah chapter five, Isaiah chapter five. Look at verse one. Now will I sing to my well-beloved
a song of my beloved touching his vineyard, my well-beloved
hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. And he fenced it and gathered
out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choices vine, and
built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine press
therein. And he looked that it should
bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now, O
inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you,
betwixt me and my vineyard, what could have been done more to
my vineyard than I have done in it? Therefore, when I looked
that it should bring forth grapes, it brought forth wild grapes. What more could God have done
for you than he has done? You won't cry to be saved until
you believe that your sin is all your fault. That's what David's
saying in Psalm 80. He's saying, Lord, you planted
the vineyard, you brought us out of Egypt, you put us in a
land, you've caused our roots to grow deep, you've produced
fruit, and you've destroyed all our enemies, and we still remain
unbelieving. James put it like this, let no
man say when he is tempted that he is tempted of God. For God
cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.
We're tempted when we're drawn away of our own lust. And lust, when it is conceived,
bringeth forth sin, and sin, when it's finished, bringeth
forth death. It's all our fault. You know,
this blame game goes all the way back to the garden, doesn't
it? Lord, the woman that you gave me, she made me to eat. You know, and the bottom line
is, every time we point our finger at someone else for our own fault,
we're in fact not blaming them, we're blaming God. We're blaming
God. And that's, what does this say
to you and me? Turn us, oh Lord! Turn us again! Cause thy face to shine upon
me and save me. Lord, I'll blame God for my circumstances
if you don't save me, if you don't deliver me. That's what
he says. I planted you. I took you out
of Egypt. I saved you. And look how unbelieving
you remain. Yes, Lord, that's me. That's
me. That's me. Save me. Save me,
Lord. Don't leave me to myself. David said, unto thee, and thee
only. Now he had murdered Uriah, committed
adultery with Bathsheba, killed all of Uriah's men, and what
did he say? Unto thee and thee only have
I sinned and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest
be justified. Lord, God had to bring him to
that place. to accept full responsibility
for all of his sin. You and I will never ask God
to save us until first he causes us to believe that all of our
sin is all of our fault. As long as we're accusing somebody
else or something else for our sin problem, we're not gonna
be praying this prayer. Look at verse 12. Why hast thou then broken down
her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck
her? The boar out of the wood doth waste her, and the wild
beast of the field doth devour it. Lord, here's my experience
with my flesh. Here's my experience with my
sin. Lord, you've You've taken down the protective wall. You've
removed the awareness, at least, of thy presence, and you've left
me to myself. And Lord, if you don't save me,
if you don't come back and turn me and protect me, I'm vulnerable
to all the wild beasts of the woods. I can't protect myself. Is that your experience? That's
my experience. The Lord lets his children get
themselves in desperate situations for one reason. Bring them to that place where
they cry, return us again, oh Lord. Cause thy face to shine
upon us and save me. Save me. If you don't save me,
I'll just, I'll ruin everything. Verse 14. Return, we beseech
thee, O God of hosts. Look down from heaven and behold
and visit this vine. Here's a sinner begging for mercy. Lord, open the windows of heaven.
Speak to my heart. Cause the waters of thy grace
to wash over me. Cause the light of the gospel
to shine in my heart. Give me hope in Christ. Otherwise I'll be left to the bore of the
wood and I'll be wasted. Verse 15, and the vineyard which
thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest
strong for thyself. Oh, you've been bought with a
price, child of God. You don't belong to yourself.
You've been bought for him. You belong to him. Lord, you
saved me, and you saved your church for your own glory. Lord,
I need to be saved again and again and again right now. If
you're going to be glorified, you're going to have to save
me. It is burned with fire. It is
cut down. They perish at the rebuke of
thy countenance. Let thy hand I hope the Lord enables you to
see what verse 17 is saying. Oh Lord, give us eyes to see,
give us ears to hear, cause us to realize who this man is. Let thy hand be upon the man
of thy right hand, upon the son of man, whom thou madest strong
for thyself. You know who that is, don't you?
That's Christ. That's the sinner asking the
Father, send the Lord Jesus Christ. Send the man that thy right hand
is upon. The Lord said in Isaiah chapter
42, Behold my servant, mine elect, whom I uphold. The Lord Jesus
Christ is the right hand man of God. He's the only one that
can save us. He's the only one that can deliver
us. God, send to me your son. Send to me the man of your right
hand. Send to me the one that you uphold. Send to me the one that you're
pleased with. Send to me the one who satisfied
your law for me. Let him be my substitute. Let him be my intercessor. Let
him be my redeemer. Let him be my justification before
you. Lord, I need Christ. I need Christ. You made him strong for yourself. 1 Corinthians 1, verse 30 says,
of God, he has made him, Christ, to be for us all our wisdom,
all our righteousness, all our sanctification, and all our redemption. Lord, send him to me. Send him
to me. Help me to rest in him, to look
to him, to know that it's his prayers for me that satisfy you. Lord, if you do that, so will
not we go back from thee. How often do you need to pray
that prayer? How often do you find yourself to be a perpetual
backslider? Every day, taking your eyes off
of Christ? Well, David says here, Lord,
if you'll send Christ to me, then I'll not go back from thee.
Quicken us. Make us alive. And we'll call
upon thy name. Right now. Or do that. Do that for us. Show me Christ.
Show me the man of thy right hand. Show me the man that you
uphold. Show me thy strength in Christ. Show me what he's accomplished
for me. And if you do, third time in this chapter, you
see that. Same verse. Same words, turn
us again, again, O God, and cause thy face to shine upon us, and
we shall be saved. No doubt about it. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father,
we're very thankful for thy precious promises and for thy faithfulness Children that are so unfaithful
and so unbelieving and so rebellious and so Lord, we're so weak, so
shallow. We're so prone to wander, to
leave the God that we love. Lord, would you be pleased to
save us again? Would you be pleased to send
the strong man of thy right hand the one whom thou upholdest,
and enable us to find our rest and our comfort and our hope
in him. For we ask it in Christ's name.
Amen. Tom, number 75 in the Sopractimno. Let's stand together. I bend my knees and bow my head,
And shut my eyes to all without. But still my heart, so cold and
dead, Is full of sin and fear and doubt. I say the words I
ought to say, confess my sin and long for Thee, but still
I fear I seldom pray. Teach me to pray, O Lord, teach
me. Cause me to know your grace and
power. Spirit of God, awake my heart. Within my soul, create a prayer. Give me, O Lord, a fervent heart. Here at your throne of grace
I lie, trusting the merits of your Son. Father, Abba, Father,
I cry, and hope that I am heaven-born. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be
done. These things with earnest heart
I say. My only hope is in Your Son. But still I ask, teach me to
pray. All right.