We cry to you this morning, for the preservation of your church in the world, and especially for her purity. Oh Father, keep us, we beseech you, with all keeping, that the Evil One will not touch us. We shall be tempted, but let him not prevail against us. In a thousand ways he will lay snares for our feet, but, oh, deliver us as a bird from the snare of the fowler. May the snare be broken that we may escape.
“I am the gate. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture. A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.” (John 10:9–10, CSB)
Amen.