Divine Support

Divine Support, A Puritan Prayer

You are the blessed God,

• happy in Yourself,
• source of happiness in Your creatures,
• my maker, benefactor, proprietor, upholder.

You have produced and sustained me,

supported and indulged me, saved and kept me;

You are in every situation able to meet my needs and miseries.

May I live by You, live for You, never be satisfied with my Christian progress

but as I resemble Christ; and may conformity to His principles,temper,

and conduct grow hourly in my life.

Let Your unexampled love constrain me into holy obedience, and render my duty my delight.

If others deem my faith folly, my meekness infirmity, my zeal madness, my hope
delusion, my actions hypocrisy, may I rejoice to suffer for Your name.

Keep me walking steadfastly towards the country of everlasting delights,
that paradise-land which is my true inheritance.

Support me by the strength of heaven that I may never turn back, or desire false pleasures
that will disappear into nothing.

As I pursue my heavenly journey by Your grace

let me be known as a man with no aim but that of a burning desire for You,

and the good and salvation of my fellow men.