We do not present our supplication before you for our own
O send out your light and your truth, let them lead us, let them guide us to your holy hill, and your tabernacles, to God our exceeding joy. Psalm 43:3, 4.
O Lord, open you our lips, and our mouth shall shew forth your praise. Psalm 51-15.
13. WE MUST MAKE THE GLORY OF GOD OUR HIGHEST END IN ALL OUR PRAYERS.
His is that which you, O Lord, have said, that you will be sanctified in them that come nigh unto you, and before all the people you will be glorified; we therefore worship before you, O Lord, that we may glorify your name; and therefore we call upon you, that you mayest deliver us, and we may glorify you. Leviticus 10:3. Psalm 86:9. Psalm
For of you, and through you, and to you, are all things. Romans 11:36.
14. WE MUST PROFESS OUR ENTIRE RELIANCE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST ALONE FOR ACCEPTANCE WITH GOD AND COME IN HIS NAME.
We do not present our supplication before you for our own righteousness; for we are before you in our trespasses, and cannot stand before you because of them: But we make mention of Christ's righteousness, even of his only, who is THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. Daniel 9:18.
Exra 9:15. Psalm 71:16. Jeremiah 23:6.
We know that even spiritual sacrifices are acceptable to God only through Christ Jesus, nor can we hope to receive anything but what we ask of you in his name, and therefore make us accepted in the beloved; that other angel, who puts much incense to the prayers of saints, and offers them up upon the golden altar before the throne.
1 Peter 2:5. John 16:23. Ephesians 1:6. Revelation 8:3.
We come in the name of the great high priest, who is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, who was touched with the feeling of our infirmities, and is therefore able to save to the uttermost all those that come to God by him, because he ever lives making intercession. Hebrews 4:14, 15. Hebrews 7:25.
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of your anointed, in whom you have by a voice from heaven declared yourself to be well pleased; Lord, be well pleased with us in him. Psalm 84:9.