The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions

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They had told me that praying together was particularly comforting during this difficult time and I immediately thought of the Valley of Vision.

They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring, and the posterity, all vessels of small quantity, from the cups to all the pitchers.That valley would be to him in very deed a "valley of vision," where he saw things present and to come. The prophets throws himself at once into the midst of the excitement; sees the agitation and tumult, and the preparations for defense which were made, and asks the "cause" of all this confusion. O GOD, We bless thee, our Creator, Preserver, Benefactor, Teacher, for opening to us the volume of nature where we may read and consider thy works. Thou hast kept my conversion fresh before me, that season of my first spiritual comfort when I passed through the Red Sea by a way I did not expect.

That thou art wholly gone up to the house-tops — Either to reconnoitre the approaching enemy, or to consult for thine own safety. You’ll never hear a prayer such as one of these at Willow Creek or any other similarly noisy, entertainment-driven “church. It seems, therefore, reasonable to regard the siege intended as that conducted by Sennacherib in his fourth year ( B.

Whenever I feel my heart at odds with my Savior or becoming separated, cold or indifferent I can kneel in prayer, reading from this book of splendid prayers and be brought to tears, once again feeling the conviction of sin and a renewed refreshing of my Spirit for Jesus.

This book will inform your mind, stir your heart, and motivate your hands to be diligent and faithful in living every moment to the glory of God.Thou that art — Or rather, wast, full of stirs — Of great trade, people hurrying to and fro about their business; a tumultuous city — Populous and noisy; a joyous city — Full of revelling and jollity. Including prayers of Richard Baxter, John Bunyan, Isaac Watts, Charles Spurgeon, and others, The Valley of Vision is a selection of petitions and meditations in the Puritan tradition. Possibly the name became more characteristic from the impulse given to the prophetic dreams of all who claimed to be seers. I could continue to share more beautiful passages from this collection, but instead I would invite you to explore and experience the richness of The Valley of Vision for yourself. She notes that her free-form prayers often devolve into narcissism (this has definitely been my experience), but that the formal, written prayers refocus her on God.

In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping. Often, after I’ve read through a prayer, slowly and deliberately, I’m left with tears standing in my eyes, and an “Amen” whispering from my lips.The roofs were always flat, and were made either of earth that was trodden hard, or with large flat stones. Probably he carried a golden key upon his shoulder as a badge of his office or had one embroidered upon his cloak or robe, to which this alludes. You looked in that day to the armor of the House of the Forest, you also saw the damage to the city of David, that it was great, and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.