My father which is in heaven. Thank you for the sweet hour of prayer that we can have daily with you. Thank you for allowing us to approach your thrown through prayer and through Jesus name. Amen
It does take a daily effort and it does take time and investment to approach God’s throne through prayer. We need our daily escape. We need to spend time with God. We need to focus our thoughts not only on our daily needs but on the needs of others that we should be concerned about. We should bring the concerns of others to God through prayer so that his power can continue and endure forever. We know that God is aware of our daily needs. But just as Jesus approached to his Father through prayer, we have that same ability as mere mortals to approach the out Father through prayer for our daily concerns. Think about the lyrics from the song by William Walford. In I Thessalonians 5:17–1 Thessalonians 5:16-18–Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. Also, in Revelation 8:4–The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand.
Pray without ceasing. can you do that, can you pray continually, can you devote daily time in Sweet Hours to Prayer to God?
Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer! That calls me from a world of care, And bids me at my Father’s throne. Make all my wants and wishes known.
In seasons of distress and grief, My soul has often found relief, And oft escaped the tempter’s snare, By thy return, sweet hour of prayer!
Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer! The joys I feel, the bliss I share, Of those whose anxious spirits burn With strong desires for thy return!
With such I hasten to the place. Where God my Savior shows His face, And gladly take my station there, And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!
Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer! Thy wings shall my petition bear. To Him whose truth and faithfulness. Engage the waiting soul to bless.
And since He bids me seek His face, Believe His Word and trust His grace, I’ll cast on Him my every care, And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!
Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer! May I thy consolation share, Till, from Mount Pisgah’s lofty height, I view my home and take my flight.
This robe of flesh I’ll drop, and rise. To seize the everlasting prize, And shout, while passing through the air, “Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of prayer!”
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