A Method for Prayer01 Matthew Henry
down, and disquieted within them, give them to hope in God, that they shall yet praise him, and let them find him the health of their countenance and their God. Psalm 42:7, 8, 11.
O renewa right spirit within them, cast them not away from your presence, and take not your holy spirit from them, but restore unto them the joy of your salvation, and uphold them with your free spirit, that their tongues may sing aloud of your righteousness, and shew forth your salvation. Psalm 51:10, 11, 12,
O bring them up out of this horrible pit, and this miry clay, and set their feet upon a rock, establishing their goings, and put a new song into their mouth, even praises to our God: O comfort them again now after the time that you have afflicted them. Psalm 40:2,
Though for a small moment you have forsaken them, and hid your face from them, yet gather them, and have mercy on them with everlasting kindness. Isaiah 54.7, 8.
O let your Spirit witness with their spirits, that they are the children of God; and by the blood of Christ let them be purged from an evil conscience. Romans 8:16. Hebrews 10:22.
Lord, rebuke the tempter, even the accuser of the brethren, the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke him, and let poor tempted troubled souls be as brands plucked out of the burning. Revelation
12:10. Zechariah 3:2.
22.2. Those that are under convictions of sin, and begin to be concerned about their souls, and their salvation, and to enquire after Christ.
Those that are asking the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, that are lamenting after the Lord, and are pricked to the heart for sin, O shew them the good and the right way and lead them in it.
Jeremiah 50:5. 1 Samuel 7:2. Acts 2:37. 1 Samuel 12:23.
To those who are asking what they shall do to inherit eternal life, discover Christ as the way, the truth and the life, the only true and living way. Matthew 19:16. John 14:6.
O do not quench the smoking flax, nor break the bruised reed, but bring forth judgment unto victory. Let the great shepherd of the sheep gather the lambs in his arms, and carry them in his bosom, and gently lead them, and help them against their unbelief.
Matthew 12:20. Isaiah 40:11. Mark 9:24.
Let not the red dragon devour the man child as soon as it is born, but let it be caught up to God and to his throne. Revelation 12:4,
22.3. When wepray with orfor those that are sick and weak, and distempered in body; that those who are sick and in sin may be convinced, those who are sick and in Christ comforted.
Lord, you have appointed those that are sick to be prayed for, and prayed with, and have promised that the prayer of faith shall save the sick; Lord, help us to pray in faith for the sick, and as being ourselves also in the body. James 5:14, 15. Hebrews 13:3.