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A few years ago, a dear friend gave me a little jewel of a book called The Morning Watches and Night Watches, by J. R. MacDuff. It is a collection of 31 devotional prayers for starting your day and 31 for ending your day. So often the Lord would use the words of these prayers to bring encouragement and conviction. He would use the words, written over a century ago, to pierce my heart and address my need for that day. May this prayer "For Gratitude in Mercies" encourage thankfulness in your heart and point you to our generous Saviour as we enter the season when we celebrate Thanksgiving. ~ Adrea ThomasA prayer for Gratitude in Mercies, from The Morning and Night Watches, by JR. MacDuff:
"Good Lord, preserve me from the sin of insensibility to Your unwearied kindess--of taking Your mercies as matters of course, and thus living in a state of independence of You. May my whole existence become a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving--may all my doings testify the sincerity and devotion of a heart feeling alive to every gift of the great Giver; and especially, may I be so brought under the constraining influence of redeeming love, as to consecrate every power of my body and every faculty of my soul to Him who so willingly consecrated and shed His very life's blood for me.
"Bless all near and dear to me. Defend them by Your mighty power. Give them, too, gratitude for mercies past, and the sure and well-grounded hope of a glorious inheritance in that better world, where mercy is unmixed with judgment, and joy undarkened by sorrow."
"Good Lord, preserve me from the sin of insensibility to Your unwearied kindess--of taking Your mercies as matters of course, and thus living in a state of independence of You. May my whole existence become a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving--may all my doings testify the sincerity and devotion of a heart feeling alive to every gift of the great Giver; and especially, may I be so brought under the constraining influence of redeeming love, as to consecrate every power of my body and every faculty of my soul to Him who so willingly consecrated and shed His very life's blood for me.
"Bless all near and dear to me. Defend them by Your mighty power. Give them, too, gratitude for mercies past, and the sure and well-grounded hope of a glorious inheritance in that better world, where mercy is unmixed with judgment, and joy undarkened by sorrow."
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