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Emily Van Dixhoorn

Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about God’s Providence

By Emily Van Dixhoorn / November 25, 2021

The providence of God reveals his infinite wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy. Nothing can thwart his plan. Here is a prayer to help you meditate upon God’s providence.

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Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about God’s Creation

By Emily Van Dixhoorn / September 14, 2021

God made the earth by his power, established the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his understanding (Jer. 10:12). Here is a prayer to help you meditate upon God’s creation.

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Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about Free Will

By Emily Van Dixhoorn / November 25, 2020

Here is a prayer to help you meditate on the free will and natural liberty God gave to man in his state of innocency “to do that which was good, and well pleasing to God” (WCF 9.1-3).

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Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about Christ the Mediator

By Emily Van Dixhoorn / September 21, 2020

Here is a prayer to help you meditate on Christ, “the Mediator between God and man, the Prophet, Priest, and King, the Head and Savior of his church, the Heir of all things, and Judge of the world” (WCF 8.1).

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Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about God’s Covenant with Man

By Emily Van Dixhoorn / June 30, 2020

Here is a prayer to help you meditate upon the covenant God made with man in Genesis 2, to share himself with a holy people—and only a holy people.

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Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about the Fall of Man

By Emily Van Dixhoorn / February 20, 2020

“By this sin [Adam and Eve] fell from their original righteousness and communion with God” (WCF 6.2). Here is a prayer to help you meditate upon how God uses even the fall of man for his glory.

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Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about God’s Eternal Decree

By Emily Van Dixhoorn / November 14, 2019

“God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass…” (WCF 3.1). Here is a prayer to help you meditate upon God’s eternal decree.

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Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about God, the Holy Trinity

By Emily Van Dixhoorn / October 2, 2019

“There is but one only, living, and true God, who is infinite in being and perfection…” (Westminster Confession of Faith, 2.1). Here is a prayer to help you meditate upon God, the Holy Trinity.

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Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about Holy Scripture

By Emily Van Dixhoorn / September 11, 2019

In this tumultuous world in which we live, it is of the greatest comfort to be reminded of the sure truth and hope God has given us in his word. Here is a prayer to help you meditate upon the blessings of Holy Scripture.

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