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Grant to your dear children, who are by any means depressed because they feel the serpent at their heel, that they may bless the dear name of him whose heel was bruised before, but who in the very bruising broke the serpent’s head.

Our souls with songs of inward joy extol the mighty Conqueror. All honor and glory be unto him who stood foot to foot with the Arch-Enemy, but who was never wounded by him: the prince of this world came, but there was nothing in you, O Jesus, no tendency to sin, no turning aside; but you did win from the first, even to the last, a glorious victory over this dread adversary of mankind.

Amen.

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Great God, we bless you that the battle, between yourself and the powers of darkness, has never been uncertain. We praise your name, that now it is forever sure to end in victory. Our hearts this morning, amidst the struggles of the present day, would look back to the conflicts of Calvary, and see how our Lord for ever there broke the dragon’s head.

Oh, that your people this morning might know that they are contending with a vanquished enemy, that they go forth to fight against one who, with all his subtlety and all his strength, has already been overthrown by him who is our Covenant Head, our Leader, our Husband, our All.

Amen.

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Bless our country. The Lord in mercy avert the horrors of war from us. Grant that, by some means, peace may be continued, and war come to an end where it still rages; and oh, that the policy of truth and righteousness may once more be taken up in this land, and our nation be forgiven its great national crimes.

Bless our leaders with every blessing; and all peoples that dwell on the face of the earth, visit with the splendor of your love. “Let the people praise you, O God; yea, let all the people praise you: then shall the earth yield her increase, and God, even our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.” 

Amen.

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Bless our beloved church and its leaders. We thank you for your mercy, that many of us are spared to do service for you, notwithstanding many infirmities.

We bless you for others who, having gone from us, have been brought back again; for the many Sunday School teachers among us; and ask, that all may be anointed with fresh oil, that every working or suffering brother and sister may receive fresh grace this day; that this may be a time of the trimming of lamps, that all may shine brightly to the praise of your grace.

Amen.

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May we take a delight in being stripped, if God strip us. When you use the chisel upon these blocks of stone, that are to be built upon the Living Stone, Lord, do not only square us, and fashion us, but separate us from the old rock to which we have been wedded so long: set us free from that hole of the pit, and let us be brought into the upper air, and built upon Christ, to lie there forever.

“You rejoice in this, even though now for a short time, if necessary, you suffer grief in various trials so that the proven character of your faith—more valuable than gold which, though perishable, is refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” (1 Peter 1:6–7)

Amen.

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And now, Lord, look upon your people for good. You know the troubles of every burdened spirit. You know how some whom you love are sick; how others have to watch over their dearest ones fading away, and withering like flowers. Lord, send comfort to the saints in trouble.

Oh, grant us grace to bear whatever your righteous will puts upon us, without repining; and if business is going amiss, and if many things are cross to the desires of nature, may we feel it is your will, and, therefore joyfully yield to that will; nay, more, may we take a delight in being stripped, if God strip us; take a delight in smarting, if it be God who makes us smart.

Amen.

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Look with great grace, we pray, O Lord, upon the slaves of sin: break their fetters. Oh, save this people. We know there are some we will see today who are, as yet, in the “gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.” Move, O Divine Spirit, over them, and fetch out from among us those that know not God, that they may know themselves and their God this day.

Oh make this to be a profitable, soul-winning day, one of the high days on which heaven’s bells shall ring out more sweetly than ever, because many and many a prodigal child has come back to the Father’s house, to make the Father glad.

Amen.

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The Lord be pleased to help us every day to put down sin. O Lord, whenever pride arises, may we be more than ever humbled in your sight. Whenever self comes up, may we be determined it shall not live, but flee to the precious blood, that we may slay it.

Lord, save us from self; save us from the love of the world; save us from the pride of the eye, and the pride of life; save us, we beseech you, from everything that is natural to fallen man, and let the new nature which you have planted manifest itself day by day, until we shall be made like Christ, “whom having not seen we love,” but to whom we shall be conformed, for we shall “see him as he is.”

Amen.

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We do not live for self, nor even for self-salvation. Jesus Christ has become the Lord and Master of our spirit, and he has delivered us from the dominion of self and sin, and helped us to be obedient unto you. Now, henceforth, the strongest portion of our will is towards holiness.

Oh, that we could be perfectly holy! We sigh after it and cry after it: we think we could bear all trials, we feel persuaded we could give up all pleasures, if we might but win the pleasure of complete obedience to God. This, indeed, is the target towards which, like arrows shot from an archer’s bow, our lives are speeding. Though rough winds turn us aside, yet shall we strike the target by your grace.

Amen.

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O God, you have smitten a heavy blow at our proud self; you have made us lie broken in pieces before you. You have set up another in the place of the false god that ruled us. We do not live for self, nor even for self-salvation. Jesus Christ has become the Lord and Master of our spirit, and he has delivered us from the dominion of self and sin, and helped us to be obedient to you.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires. (Romans 6:12)

Amen.

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