29/03/2022 Removing Pride and Vanity, so as to Inherit Precious Gifts

Father thank You that You give strong consolations and that we may repose all of our Trust In You.

Help us to step outside of vain imaginations and to behold You as that strong deliver who liberates us from every vanity and false notion across the span of eternity. Help us do do less harm one to another through incautious thoughts and words and actions, and free us from every net and snare laid for us according to the heritage of Your servants, against whom no weapon can prosper or tongue condemn.

Let Your strong consolations comfort each one of Your servants, even as you add to their number by the conversion of hearts and souls. Surely there are great treasures in You that You would be most willing to share with us as we accommodate the responsibility needed to hold and to have them. May we shun our own vanity, and render to You Your gifts as You would have them be in Christ.

Scripture reminds us that there is a time under heaven for every good work; help us to walk in and accomplish and enjoy these works that You have purposed from the foundation of the world. May we apply ourselves to the gift of good works, that You have stored up for each one that seeks You and entreats Your favour and mercy.

Holy, Righteous and True are all Your works, yet You give to men works of great grace, of immense forgiveness, of tender patience; Even so, increase the former works and establish the latter ones for our great benefit and Your own Joy in Your creation.

So do we pray this morning as we look to You, from whom our help does proceed. Amen.

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“Listen, my dear brothers: has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised to those who love Him?”
-James 2:5

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