This prayer is called “Morning Needs,” and it comes from Valley of Vision: A collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions. While the prayer is more spiritual than physical for a “daily bread” prayer, it contains this week’s text of Proverbs 30:8-9, and it really covers the needs of the day so well. Think of a day (or life!) framed with this at every new dawn.
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Morning
Needs
O God the author of all good,
I come to Thee for the grace another day
will require for its duties and events.
I step out into a wicked world; I carry about with me an evil heart.
I know that without Thee I can do nothing, that everything with which I
shall be concerned, however harmless in itself, may prove an occasion of sin or
folly, unless I am kept by Thy power.
Hold Thou me up and I shall be safe.
Preserve my understanding from subtilty of error, my affections from
love of idols, my character from stain of vice, my profession from every form
of evil.
May I engage in nothing in which I cannot implore Thy blessing, and in
which I cannot invite Thy inspection.
Prosper me in all lawful undertakings, or prepare me for
disappointments.
Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with food convenient for
me, lest I be full and deny Thee and say, Who is the Lord? or be poor, and
steal, and take Thy name in vain.
May every creature be made good to me by prayer and Thy will.
Teach me how to use the world and not abuse it,
to improve my talents, to
redeem my time,
to walk in wisdom toward
those without,
and in kindness to those
within,
to do good to all men,
and especially to my
fellow Christians.
And to Thee be the glory.
Amen.
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