A Method for Prayer01 Matthew Henry (continued)
4. WE MAY THEN RECOMMEND OURSELVES TO THE CONDUCT, PROTECTION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE DIVINE GRACE, IN THE FURTHER SERVICES THAT LIE BEFORE US, AND IN THE WHOLE COURSE OF OUR CONVERSATION And now let us be enabled to go from strength to strength, until we appear before God in Zion, and while we pass through this valley of Baca, let it be made a well, and let the rain of the divine grace and blessing fill the pools. Psalm 84:7, 6.
Now, speak, Lord, for your servants' heart. What saith our Lord unto his servants? Grant that we may not turn away our ear from hearing the law; for then our prayers will be an abomination; but may hearken unto God, that he may hearken unto us. 1 Samuel3:9.
Joshua 5:14. Proverbs 28:9. Judges 9:7.
And now the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; let him not leave us nor forsake us; That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments; And let our hearts be perfect with the Lord our God all our days, and continue so till the end be, that then we may rest, and may stand in our lot, and let it be a blessed lot in the end of the days. 1 Kings 8:57, 58, 61. Daniel 12:13.
5. WE MAY CONCLUDE ALL WITH DOXOLOGIES, OR SOLEMN PRAISES OF GOD, ASCRIBING HONOR AND GLORY TO THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE