New Years - Devotional

[MusicLover123]

My only, and favorite, devotional: The Valley of Vision, has a lot of good prayers in there. I opened my copy to a random page, and feel I should put it here, especially for the "New Year." Enjoy:

https://banneroftruth.org/us/devotional/the-personal-touch/#

The Personal Touch
THOU GREAT I AM,

I acknowledge and confess that all things
    come of thee —
  life, breath, happiness, advancement,
  sight, touch, hearing,
  goodness, truth, beauty –
  all that makes existence amiable.
In the spiritual world also I am dependent
    entirely upon thee.
Give me grace to know more of my need of grace;
Show me my sinfulness that I may willingly
    confess it;
Reveal to me my weakness that I may know
    my strength in thee.
I thank thee for any sign of penitence;
    give me more of it;
My sins are black and deep,
  and rise from a stony, proud,
    self-righteous heart;
Help me to confess them with mourning, regret,
  self-loathing,
  with no pretence to merit or excuse;
I need healing,
Good Physician, here is scope for thee,
  come and manifest thy power;
I need faith;
Thou who hast given it me, maintain, strengthen,
    increase it,
Centre it upon the Saviour's work,
  upon the majesty of the Father,
  upon the operations of the Spirit;
Work it in me now that I may never doubt thee
  as the truthful, mighty, faithful God.
Then I can bring my heart to thee
  full of love, gratitude, hope, joy.
May I lay at thy feet these fruits grown
    in thy garden,
  love thee with a passion that can never cool,
  believe in thee with a confidence that never
    staggers,
  hope in thee with an expectation that can never
    be dim,
  delight in thee with a rejoicing that cannot
    be stifled,
  glorify thee with the highest of my powers,
    burning, blazing, glowing, radiating, as from
      thy own glory.

[MusicLover123]

Oh, finally found another favorite! (Minus the mention of hell)

The Broken Heart
DEVOTIONAL: The Valley of Vision
O LORD,

No day of my life has passed that has not
        proved me guilty in thy sight.
        Prayers have been uttered from a
  prayerless heart;
Praise has been often praiseless sound;
My best services are filthy rags.
Blessed Jesus, let me find a covert in thy appeasing
  wounds.
Though my sins rise to heaven thy merits soar
  above them;
Though unrighteousness weighs me down to hell,
  thy righteousness exalts me to thy throne.
All things in me call for my rejection,
All things in thee plead my acceptance.
I appeal from the throne of perfect justice
  to thy throne of boundless grace.
Grant me to hear thy voice assuring me:
  that by thy stripes I am healed,
  that thou wast bruised for my iniquities,
  that thou hast been made sin for me
  that I might be righteous in thee,
  that my grievous sins, my manifold sins,
    are all forgiven,
  buried in the ocean of thy concealing blood.
I am guilty, but pardoned,
  lost, but saved,
  wandering, but found,
  sinning, but cleansed.
Give me perpetual broken-heartedness,
Keep me always clinging to thy cross,
Flood me every moment with descending grace,
Open to me the springs of divine knowledge,
  sparkling like crystal,
  flowing clear and unsullied
  through my wilderness of life.

[marie glen]

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