Petition 3.9 | ESVWe must pray for the comfortable sense of our reconciliation to God and our acceptance with him.That we may have some evidence of the pardon of our sins and of our adoption.O let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that sin has broken rejoice. Psalm 51:8(ESV)Say to each of your
Petition 3.8 | ESVThat we may have the blessing of God.O God, be gracious to me and bless me and make your face to shine upon me; Psalm 67:1(ESV) yes, let God, my God, give me his blessing. Psalm 67:6(ESV)May the LORD, he who made heaven and earth, bless me from Zion; Psalm 134:3(ESV) bless me with
Petition 3.7 | ESVThat we may be taken into covenant with God and admitted into a relationship with him.Be to me a God, and take me as one who belongs to you, as one who is counted among your people; Hebrews 8:10(ESV) and make me offer myself freely on the day of your power, Psalm 110:3(ESV) though
Petition 3.6 | ESVWe must likewise pray that God will be reconciled to us, that we may obtain his favor and blessing and gracious acceptance.That we may be at peace with God and his anger may be turned away from us.Being justified by faith, let me have peace with God through my Lord Jesus Christ, an
Petition 3.5 | ESVOur own misery and danger because of sin.For your name’s sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great; Psalm 25:11(ESV) for evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see. Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me
Petition 3.4 | ESVThe promises God has made in his word to pardon and absolve all those who truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy gospel.Lord, is not this the word which you have spoken: that if the wicked man forsakes his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and returns to the LORD, e
Petition 3.3 | ESVThe merit and righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ, which we rely upon as our main plea in our petition for the pardon of sin.I know that as you are gracious and merciful, so you are the righteous God who loves righteous deeds, Psalm 11:7(ESV) and will by no means clear the guilt
Petition 3.2 | ESVFor the encouraging of our faith and the exciting of our fervency in this petition for the pardon of sin, we may plead with God:The infinite goodness of his nature, his readiness to forgive sin, and his glorying in it.You, Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love t
Petition 3.1 | ESVWe must earnestly pray for the pardon and forgiveness of all our sins.Lord, I come to you, as the poor tax collector that stood far off and would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast; and I pray his prayer, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner.” Luke 18:13(ESV) The
Petition 3.0 | ESVOf the Third Part of Prayer, which is Petition and Supplication for the Good Things that we Stand in Need of.Having opened the wounds of sin, both the guilt of it and the power of it, and its remainders in us, we must next seek unto God for the remedy, for healing and help, for fro
