ARTICLES
Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about God’s Providence
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.
Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about the Effectual Calling of God
When hearts seem just as hard as they were when I started praying for them, I begin to wonder if I should quit praying—O Lord, may I never! Here is a prayer to help us meditate upon the reassuring truth of God’s effectual calling.
Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about God's Creation
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.
Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about Free Will
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).
Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about Christ the Mediator
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).
Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about God's Covenant with Man
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.
Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about the Fall of Man
“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.
Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about God's Eternal Decree
“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.
Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about God, the Holy Trinity
“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.