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Wednesday Wallpaper: Divine Spark

by Jacob Abshire on March 9, 2016

The great Puritan prayer entitled “Faith,” from The Valley of Vision, urges us to trust in Christ more deeply. “Faith casts my anchor upwards where I trust in thee and engage thee to be my Lord.” Our faith is weak at times, but His goodness abounds and helps us to believe and rely on Him more. Lest we think our faith be a strength of our own, be reminded that it is sparked by God.

MY GOD, I bless thee that thou hast given me the eye of faith, to see thee as Father, to know thee as a covenant God, to experience thy love planted in me; For faith is the grace of union by which I spell out my entitlement to thee: Faith casts my anchor upwards where I trust in thee and engage thee to be my Lord.

Be pleased to live and move within me, breathing in my prayers, inhabiting my praises, speaking in my words, moving in my actions, living in my life, causing me to grow in grace.

Thy bounteous goodness has helped me believe, but my faith is weak and wavering, its light dim, its steps tottering, its increase slow, its backslidings frequent; It should scale the heavens, but lies grovelling in the dust.

Lord, fan this divine spark into glowing flame. When faith sleeps, my heart becomes an unclean thing, the fount of every loathsome desire, the cage of unclean lusts all fluttering to escape, the noxious tree of deadly fruit, the open wayside of earthly tares.

Lord, awake faith to put forth its strength until all heaven fills my soul and all impurity is cast out.

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