Valley of Vision

Episode 325

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series using selections from The Valley of Vision: a Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions.  Today we’re using a selection from “Assurance.”

I am loved with everlasting love,
clothed in eternal righteousness,
my peace flowing like a river,
my comforts many and large,
my joy and triumph unutterable,
my soul lively with a knowledge of salvation,
my sense of justification unclouded.
I have scarce anything to pray for….

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Episode 324

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series using selections from The Valley of Vision: a Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions.  Today we’re using a selection from “Regeneration.”

I was dead in iniquities,
having no eyes to see thee,
no ears to hear thee,
no taste to relish thy joys,
no intelligence to know thee;
But thy Spirit has quickened me,
has brought me into a new world as a new creature,
has given me spiritual perception,
has opened to me thy Word as light, guide, solace, joy.

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Episode 323

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series using selections from The Valley of Vision: a Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions.  Today we’re using a selection from “God and Myself.”

Thy understanding is unsearchable and infinite,
Thy arm cannot be stayed,
Thy agency extends through limitless space,
All works hang on thy care,
With thee time is a present now.

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Episode 322

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series using selections from The Valley of Vision: a Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions.  Today we’re using a selection from “The Spirit’s Work.”

Move, I pray thee, upon my disordered heart….
Lift the mists and darkness of unbelief;
Brighten my soul with the pure light of truth;
Make it fragrant as the garden of paradise,
rich with every goodly fruit,
beautiful with heavenly grade,
radiant with rays of divine light.

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Episode 321

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series using selections from The Valley of Vision: a Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions.  Today we’re using a selection from “Spiritus Sanctus.”

Come as joy,
to dwell in me, move in me, animate me…
Come as a sanctifier,
body, soul and spirit wholly thine;
Come as helper
with strength to bless and keep, directing my every step;
Come as beautifier,
bringing order out of confusion, loveliness out of chaos.

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Episode 320

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series using selections from The Valley of Vision: a Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions.  Today we’re using a selection from “Love to Jesus.”

I bless thee that thou hast made me capable
of knowing thee, the author of all being,
of resembling thee, the perfection of all excellency,
of enjoying thee, the source of all happiness.
O God, attend me in every part of my arduous and trying pilgrimage;
I need the same counsel, defense, comfort I found at my beginning.

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Episode 319

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series using selections from The Valley of Vision: a Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions.  Today we’re using a selection from “God Enjoyed.”

I bless thee that thou hast made me capable
of knowing thee, the author of all being,
of resembling thee, the perfection of all excellency,
of enjoying thee, the source of all happiness.
O God, attend me in every part of my arduous and trying pilgrimage;
I need the same counsel, defense, comfort I found at my beginning.

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Episode 318

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series using selections from The Valley of Vision: a Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions.  Today we’re using a selection from “Divine Mercies.”

I know that thou art the author and finisher of faith,
that the whole work of redemption is thine alone,
that every good work or thought found in me
is the effect of thy power and grace,
that thy sole motive in working in me to will and to do
is for thy good pleasure.

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Episode 317

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series using selections from The Valley of Vision: a Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions.  Today we’re using a selection from “God the All.”

I know that thou art the author and finisher of faith,
that the whole work of redemption is thine alone,
that every good work or thought found in me
is the effect of thy power and grace,
that thy sole motive in working in me to will and to do
is for thy good pleasure.

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Episode 316

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re starting a new series using selections from The Valley of Vision: a Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions.  Today we’re using a selection from “The Valley of Vision.”

Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision,
where I live in the depths but see thee in the heights;
hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold thy glory.…
Let me find thy light in my darkness,
thy life in my death,
thy joy in my sorrow,
thy grace in my sin,
thy riches in my poverty,
thy glory in my valley.

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