Lord God help me to sing your praises
and to share in the inexpressible joy of a heart trusting in you alone.

Help my stubbornness because I don't always praise you as I should. Yet my soul rests in your goodness and loving-kindness.

Lord help me in my backsliding, my resistance my forgetfulness of you my Lord and God. Evil corruptions urge me to stand in opposition to you.

Help me to proclaim your goodness with a submissive heart. May I look inwardly and ask, am I truly born again,
is my spirit as a child in my approach to you,
are my wants and needs a stumbling block to others,
are my joys fruit of faith,
does my confidence in Christ spring from love,
and does it purify my soul.

Let you love shine in my prayer and in my public life,
wrap my heart in your love, hold me Lord and never let me go.

There is so much darkness still in me, scourge this out and live in me and cause me to long for perfect holiness.

Help me to proclaim your goodness with a submissive heart.

Amen