A Method for Prayer01 Matthew Henry (continued)
You are our King, O God: Other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but from henceforth by you only will we make mention of your name. Psalm 44:4. Isaiah 26:13.
We avouch the Lord this day to be our God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken to his voice, and give ourselves unto him to be his peculiar people as he hath promised, that we may be a holy people unto the Lord our God; and may be unto him for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory. Deuteronomy 26:17, 18, 19. Jeremiah 13:11.
O Lord, truly we are your servants, we are your servants born in your house, and you have loosed our bonds; we are bought with a price, and therefore we are not our own; but yield ourselves unto the Lord, and join ourselves to him in an everlasting covenant that shall never be forgotten. Psalm 116:16. 1 Corinthians 6:20, 19. 2
Chronicles 30:8. Jeremiah 50:5.
We are yours, save us; for we seek your precepts: It is your own, Lord, that we give you, and that which cometh of your hand. Psalm
119.94. 1 Chronicles 29:16.
7. WE MUST ACKNOWLEDGE IT AN UNSPEAKABLE FAVOR, AND AN INESTIMABLE PRIVILEGE, THAT WE ARE NOT ONLY ADMITTED, BUT INVITED AND ENCOURAGED TO DRAW NIGH TO GOD IN PRAYER.
You have commanded us to pray always, with all prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, and to watch thereunto with all