A Method for Prayer01 Matthew Henry
This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes: This is the day which the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it: He is the first and the last, who was dead and is alive. Psalm 118:22, 23,
O that we may this day experience the power of Christ's resurrection, and may be planted together in the likeness of it, that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life, and may sit with him in heavenly places; and by seeking the things that are above, may make it to appear that we are risen with him. Philippians 3:10.
Romans 6.5, 4. Ephesians 2:6. Colossians 3:1.
We come together to give glory to the blessed Spirit of grace, and to celebrate the memorial of the giving of that promise of the Father, in whom the apostles received power on the first day of the week, as on that day Christ rose. Acts 1:4, 8. Acts 2:1.
O that we may this day be filled with the Holy Ghost, and that the fruit of the Spirit in us may be in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth. Ephesians 5:18, 9.
We come together to testify our communion with the universal church, that though we are many, yet we are one; that we worship one and the same God, the Father, ofwhom are all things, and we in him, in the name of one Lord Jesus Christ, bywhom are all things, and we by him; under the conduct of the same Spirit, one and the selfsame Spirit, who divides to every man severally as he will, walking by the same rule, looking for the same blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior. 1