A Method for Prayer01 Matthew Henry
the Lord give us counsel, and let our reins instruct us in the night season: Visit us in the night and try us and enable us to commune with our own hearts upon our bed. Psalm 31:5. Job 33:15, 16. Psalm
16-7. Psalm 17:3. Psalm 4-4.
Give us to remember you upon our bed, and to meditate upon you in the night watches, with the saints that are joyful in glory, and that sing aloud upon their beds. Psalm 63:6. Psalm 149.5.
3. IN CRAVING A BLESSING BEFORE MEAT Thou, O Lord, give food to all flesh, for your mercy endures forever.
The eyes of all wait on you; but especially you give meat to them that fear you, being ever mindful of your covenant. Psalm 136:25.
Psalm 145:15. Psalm 111.5.
You are our life, and the length of our days, the God that have fed us all our life long unto this day: You give us all things richly to enjoy, though we serve you but poorly. You have not only given us every green herb, and the fruits of the trees to be to us for meat, but every moving thing that lives even as the green herb.
Deuteronomy 30:20. Genesis 48:15. 1 Timothy 6:17. Genesis 1:29.
And blessed be God that now under the gospel we are taught to call nothing common or unclean, and that it is not that which goes into the man that defiles the man, but that every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused; for God hath created it to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. Acts 10:14, 15. Matthew 15:11. 1 Timothy 4:4, 3.