Collection of a.w. Tozer's Prayers - Volume 1

Father, we pray, bless Thou this truth. O God, Thy mercies are abundant. Are not Thy mercies full and free, and have they not, O God, found out in me? We thank Thee for Thy mercies, Thy many abundant, full mercies.

Now we pray that Thou wilt help us lean back upon Thy mercy and trust and not be afraid. Hate sin and love righteousness, flee from iniquity and follow after godliness. But always know that in all that we do, mercy is around us like the air underneath us, as the earth above us as the stars.

And we live in a merciful world to serve a merciful God, and live and swim and move and have our being in the abundant mercies of the Triune God. Graciously grant us, we pray Thee, properly to understand this and to apply it to our hearts. And we give thee praise through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Amen. Father, we pray Thy blessing upon the truth. Pray Thy blessing upon this service that follows.

Let us, we pray, drink on heavenly riches, the blood that was shed, but the blood that is still shed, the blood that is now on the earth, the sacrifice, the priest, the Lamb, of all that is now ours, till he comes and opens before us all the riches of his will and shows us our inheritance, which is ours in Christ's name. Graciously bless us as we wait upon the afternoon. Lord, we pray for the afternoon, that it may not be wasted, but that it might be used in some good, positive way to know Thee better, to cultivate spiritual things, to do good unto all men, to witness of saving grace to a world that's dying.

Now may grace and mercy and peace from God the Father and Son and Holy Ghost be with us. Now, Father, we pray, we would repent before Thee this morning, Lord, rather than just pray. We would repent before Thee, Lord, for our materialistic minds, thinking in terms of this world, judging, weighing, measuring, valuing as men do.

Father, this is wrong, forgive us. And Father, our preoccupation with earthly things also, we would repent this morning. As a people, we would repent for our absorption in the things that pass away.

Lord, forgive us, cleanse us, wash us, so that as we quiet our hearts and in silence hear a voice, we may not have on us the ragged, ink and dust of unconfessed sin, that our garments may be white this morning, pure, shining, we may receive as unworthy but believing people. Break the bread of life this morning, O bread of life, break it, wine of the soul, spill it, feed us, till we want no more. In Jesus' holy name.

We go on into the Lord's Supper, and the table is open for every child of God, regardless of where your church membership is. Go ahead and go meet me at the front.