Good Morning,
In light of the pending storm I thought best to bring us before the LORD in prayer. To help us with this I am including in this post a prayer from the collection of Puritan prayers known as "The Valley of Vision".
Feel free to share this with your children today, especially if they are troubled by the wind and power of God's creation.
May the Lord keep us all safe and dry in His goodness.
As always if there is anything troubling you, or you need someone to talk to I am always available, just call/text/email, whatever works best for you.
Here is our prayer for today:
"O Lord of the oceans, my little ship sails on a restless sea, grant that Jesus may sit at the helm and steer me safely;
Suffer no adverse currents to divert my heavenward course; Let not my faith be wrecked amid storms and shoals;
Bring me to harbor with flying pennants, hull unbreached, cargo, unspoiled. I ask great things, expect great things, shall receive great things. I venture on thee wholly, fully, my wind, sunshine, anchor, defence.
The voyage is long, the waves high, the storms pitiless, but my helm is held steady, thy Word secures safe passage, they grace wafts me onward, my haven is guaranteed.
This day will bring me nearer home, grant me holy consistency in every transaction, my peace flowing as a running tide, my righteousness as every chasing wave.
Help me to live circumspectly, with skill to convert every care into prayer, halo my path with gentleness and love, smooth every asperity of temper; let me not forget how easy it is to occasion grief; may I strive to bind up every wound, and pour oil on all troubled waters.
May the world this day be happier and better because I live. Let my mast before me be the savior’s cross, and every oncoming wave the fountain in his side.
Help me, protect me in the moving sea until I reach the shore of unceasing praise."
-The Voyage, Prayer from The Valley of Vision
Blessings in Christ,
Rev. Benjamin Glaser
Pastor, Bethany ARP Church