We must pray for the grace of God, and all the kind and powerful influences and operations of that grace. › We must pray for grace to furnish us for every good thought, word, and work, that we may not only be kept from sin, but may be in every thing as we should be, and do as we should do.

1. We must pray for faith.

Unto us, Lord, let it be given to believe; for the faith by which we are saved is not of ourselves, it is the gift of God. Phil 1:29. Eph 2:8.

Lord, increase our faith, and perfect what is _ lacking in it, that we may be strong in faith, giving glory to God. Luke 17:5. 1 Thess 3:10. Rom 4:20.

Lord, give us so to be crucified with Christ, that the life we now live in the flesh, we may live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved us, and gave himself for us; and so to bear about with us continually the dying of the Lord Jesus, as that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal bodies. Gal 2:20. 2 Cor 4:10.

As we have received Christ Jesus, the Lord, enable us so to walk in him, rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith as we have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Col 2:6, 7.

Let every work of thine profit us, being mixed with faith, by which we receive thy testimony, and set to our seal that God is true. Heb 4:2. John 3:33.

We beseech thee work in us that faith which is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen, by which we may look above the things that are seen, that are temporal, and may look at the things that are not seen, that are eternal. Heb 11:1. 2 Cor 4:18.

Enable us by faith to set the Lord always before us, and to have our eyes ever towards him, that we may act in every thing as seeing him that is invisible, and having a respect to the recompense of reward. Ps 16:8; Ps 25:15. Heb 11:26, 27.

Let our hearts be purified by faith, and let it be our victory overcoming the world. And let us be kept from fainting, by believing that we shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Acts 15:9. 1 John 5:4. Ps 27:13.

‹ To sanctify our nature, to plant in us all holy principles… · We must pray for the fear of God. ›

Pray now: a guided prayer in six parts, with the next heads each day.

Henry’s text is in the public domain. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, No. 265 Chestnut Street. Undated, about 1840 to 1860. The preface is dated Chester, March 25, 1710. From the Internet Archive scan. The KJV text is in the public domain.