The Valley of Vision is a book of Puritan prayers and meditations collected and adapted by Arthur Bennett. You can pray them verbatim in your time of spiritual retreat or as part of a daily rhythm with God. Alternatively, you can use them to inspire your own prayers or paraphrase them in your own words....
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Parenting Liturgy
The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loveThe Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love The Lord is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.He will not constantly accuse us, nor remain angry forever.He does not punish us for all our...
Prayers from A. W. Tozer
The following are prayers written by AW Tozer in his books The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy. Prayers from The Pursuit of God Public domain – accessed December 2023, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25141/25141-h/25141-h.htm Following Hard after God O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty...
Fourth Conversation – Brother Lawrence
Brother Lawrence spoke with great openness of heart concerning his manner of going to God whereof some part is related already. He told me that all consists in one hearty renunciation of everything which we are sensible does not lead to God. We might accustom ourselves to a continual conversation with Him with freedom and...
Day by Day – Andrew Murray
“And the people shall go out and gather the portion of a day in his day.”-Ex.16:4 THE day’s portion in its day: Such was the rule for God’s giving and man’s working in the ingathering of the manna. It is still the law in all the dealings of God’s grace with His children. A clear...
I Will Never Cast You Out
A prayer based on Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ, by John Bunyan, as quoted in Gentle and Lowly, by Dane Ortland My Lord, I am a great sinner… Yet Jesus says to me “I will never cast you out”I have pursued sin year after year… Still Jesus says to me “I will never cast...
Trusting God in Suffering
Included in the book The Practice of the Presence of God are several letters from Brother Lawrence to a brother who is suffering severely with some physical ailment. We include three of these letters (letters 13 to 15) here as a possible devotional reading. As it addresses the theme of entrusting our suffering and situation...
Bernard of Clairvaux on How Great the Christian’s Debt of Love Is
From On Loving God – Chapter 5, “Of the Christian’s debt of love, how great it is” From the contemplation of what has been said, we see plainly that God is to be loved, and that He has a just claim upon our love. But the infidel does not acknowledge the Son of God, and...
You Will Find Rest for Your Souls – Andrew Murray
“Come unto me, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; and ye shall find rest to your souls -MATT.11:28-29 REST for the soul: Such was the first promise with which the Saviour sought to win the heavy-laden sinner. Simple though it appears, the promise is indeed as...
The Gaze of the Soul – AW Tozer
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.—Heb. 12:2 Let us think of our intelligent plain man mentioned in chapter six coming for the first time to the reading of the Scriptures. He approaches the Bible without any previous knowledge of what it contains. He is wholly without prejudice; he has nothing to...