The Psalmist David writes in Psalm 143:

8 Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, 

      for in you I trust. 

   Make me know the way I should go, 

      for to you I lift up my soul. 

As God’s children, we generally believe in maintaining a regular and frequent prayer life. It is said that John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, was deeply concerned about the “state of the soul.” Because of this, he prayed for two hours daily. Below are some of Wesley's prayers, shared to hopefully inspire your personal prayer times.

“O God, who are the giver of all good gifts, I your unworthy servant entirely desire to praise your name for all the expressions of your bounty toward me. Blessed be your love for giving your Son to die for our sins, for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. Blessed be your love for all the temporal benefits which you have with a liberal hand poured out upon me; for my health and strength, food and raiment, and all other necessaries . . . I also bless you, that after all my refusals of your grace, you still have patience with me, have preserved me this night, and given me yet another day to renew and perfect my repentance.

  Make yourself always present to my mind, and let your love fill and rule my soul, in all those places, and companies, and employments to which you call me this day. O you who are good and do good, who extend your loving-kindness to all mankind, the work of your hands, your image, capable of knowing and loving you eternally: suffer me to exclude none, O Lord, from my charity, who are the objects of your mercy; but let me treat all my neighbours with the tender love which is due to your servants and to your children. Let your love to me, O blessed Saviour, be the pattern of my love to them.

  Preserve my parents, my brothers and sisters, my friends and relations, and all mankind in their souls and bodies. Forgive my enemies, and in your due time make them kindly affected toward me. O grant that we, with those who are already dead in your faith and fear, may together partake of a joyful resurrection.”

Blessings on your faith and prayer journey,

Gene