Old things New Podcast

Prayer Heavenly Father, thank you for a new day of life. Thank you for sustaining me through the night, and thank you for your patient forbearance with me, I deserve none of it. According to the greatness of your compassion, I ask this morning that as I read your word, you would speak to me and wash my heart anew. In Jesus’ name, Amen. Reading Gen 1:24-31. “ And God said, “Let the earth bring fort...

Prayer My Lord and my God, Yet I am still with you, you hold me by my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and after you will take me into glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And the earth has nothing that I desire, beside you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but you are the strength of my heart, and my portion forever. Whom have I in heaven but you? And the earth has nothing that I desir...

Prayer O Lord my God, how majestic is your name in all the earth. Creation declares your glory, and it is a wonder to be alive to see it. And your steadfast love endures forever! I praise your great and mighty name. I thank you for sustaining me through the night. I thank you for your abiding patience and grace. I am sorry, Lord, for the ways I have misused what you have given, and especially in f...

Prayer O Lord you are good and do good. Your mercies toward me have been abundant beyond anything I could hope or even understand. And yet I still fumble along, generally oblivious to your mercies – Lord, please pardon my iniquity. I thank you for this new day, I thank you that I am still with you, and that you hold me by my right hand – in spite of my sin, frailty, and weakness. Please lead and g...

Prayer My gracious Master and my God, assist me to proclaim the glories and majesty of your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Lord, this world is full of such rebellion as defies understanding. My own heart, redeemed and daily washed though it be, yet remains a labyrinth of twisted thoughts, affections, and motivations. Without you, I am altogether lost. O Lor...

Prayer O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. You have set your glory above the heavens. Worthy are you, O Lord and God, to receive the glory that is due unto your name from the sons of men. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for...

Prayer Dear Lord, I thank you for another new day of life – your day. All things belong to you, and I ask for your mercy for even the first few minutes of the day. I wake, and my thoughts gravitate to myself and my own interests, but the truth is that all things belong to you. Please help me, Lord, to live this day in entire submission to your will. I pray now as I read your word that you would be...

Prayer Lord God, I thank and praise you for this new day. Thank you for the gift of sleep that you gave to me last night. As the new dawn rises, I look to you for light and hope. You are the only reason I have to live, and without you I have nothing. As I open your word now, may you feed my soul, may you enlighten my eyes. I pray that you may so form my mind as to see the world in a new way – to l...

Prayer I praise you, glorious Lord, for the wonders you have done, for your goodness to me. Almighty God, as I read your word now, please hear me once again and save me. Unite my heart to fear your name. Without you I can do nothing. Were it not for you, I would surely be without hope or light in the world, wandering still in darkness. Even now darkness yet remains in my heart and would threaten t...

Prayer Lord, we thank you for this day and for your mercies. We pray as we open your word now that you would help us to be renewed in our minds by the truth of your word. Help us to see your glory. Please forgive us for our sins. Sanctify and purify us, we pray. Please help us to fear your name. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Reading Gen 1:20-23. “ And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of...

Prayer Lord God Almighty I praise your name this day, I give thanks unto you, O Lord among the nations. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. O Lord, may it be so. May it be so in my heart as I read your word, please subdue my rebel heart, write your law upon my heart, that Christ may reign with...

Prayer Heavenly Father, I praise and thank you this day for your tender mercies. Thank you, Lord, that in the greatness of your compassion you make all things in my life work together for good. I praise you for the hard providences that you use to work against sin in my life, and I am sorry for the many times when I have complained in these things. I am sorry for the spirit of resistance I have of...

Prayer Heavenly Father, Please instruct me from your word. I am yours, save me. Cast me not away, take not your Holy Spirit from me, restore and renew unto me the joy of your salvation, and renew in me an upright and clean heart. Lord, I am in desperate need of the daily cleansing of your word and, unworthy though I am, I plead for mercy. Save me, Lord, or I die. And the dead shall not give praise...

Prayer God Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, I praise your glorious name this day. I praise you for all the wonders that you have done. I praise you for the great magnitude of your kindness in giving us all things needful for this life. I praise you for your mercies, patience, and kindness in the face of our sinful abuse of these gifts. I confess, Lord, I am a great sinner. I look to you again...

Prayer Heavenly Father, All praise and glory to you, O God. You are exalted beyond the heavens, perfect in holiness, eternal and unchangeable, righteous in all you do. I give glory to you Almighty God. I rejoice to think on your perfections, and I thank you that you have covenanted with me, an unworthy sinner. Where you are pure, I am full of impurity. Where you are steadfast, I am fickle and unre...

Prayer Heavenly Father, I thank you for the privilege of this new day of life – I do not deserve this blessing. I thank you for preserving through another night of sleep, and I praise you for the many evident mercies that you extended to me yesterday. I look to you again on this new day – I am utterly inadequate to meet the challenges and difficulties of the day ahead. Without you grace, strength,...

Prayer Heavenly Father, I praise and thank you for a new day of life. I worship you, O Lord, for your new mercies this morning. I praise you for keeping me through the night, for your patience and sustaining grace. O Lord, as I start out on this new day, I commit the day unto you. I ask, O Lord, that the rule of Christ may be mightily extended in my heart and life today. May Christ rule the moveme...

Prayer Heavenly Father, thank you for a new day of life. Thank you for treating me infinitely better than I deserve. Where I deserve your wrath, instead you have given me patience and mercy. And yet, Lord, I am still so hard-hearted, so earthly-minded. I can make no progress unless you work in me to change my heart. Please look down upon me with mercy this morning, please meet me in the midst of t...

Prayer Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth is it is in heaven; give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one; for yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, Amen. Reading Psalm 105 & 1 Cor 12....

Prayer Lord God, I give you thanks for a new day of life, for the gifts of your grace. I give you thanks for your preserving grace and patience in my life. O Lord, as I come now to your word, please help me. As I seek to draw near to you, please quicken my dull heart, please enflame my cold affections. Please fill my eyes with the light of your countenance, please give me life – that your glory ma...

Prayer Heavenly Father, I thank you for the new day that you have given to me. All praise to you, my Lord and my God. Truly God I good to Israel! To those who fear his name. Lord, you have lifted my life up from the grave, you have set my feet on a rock. You have trained my hands for war and I praise you. I thank you for new strength, and your sustaining grace. I praise you that your steadfast lov...

Prayer Heavenly Father, you are light and give light to all creatures. You set the sun in the sky so that we can see, and without this gift we would be in utter darkness. Your manifold gifts beside are wonderful – eyes to see, and all the world full of glories and gifts. So also you are spiritual light, shining into the world through your Son, our Lord Jesus. Without the gift of your Son, so too w...

Prayer Heavenly Father, my Sustainer, my Redeemer, and my God. I give you thanks this morning, for all of your goodness to me. I praise you, that you are holy, pure, blameless and good. You do all things well. I lift my eyes to you, help me to be fully satisfied and content with you in every moment. Please feed my soul now as I read your word, lead me not into temptation, but deliver me from the e...

Prayer Heavenly Father, I praise and thank you today for the gift of life, and for sustaining me through the night. You are altogether faithful and kind in every way, upholding the downcast, and you have raised me up when I have fallen. I have looked to you in my time of need, and you have provided. My need is great again today, and I call upon you for mercy and help. Please feed me now from your...

Prayer I give all praise and thanks to you, my Lord, for your steadfast love, and your continual provision of life for my body and spirit. I thank you that your mercies are new every morning. As I look to you again for mercy on this new day, I pray, O Lord, that you would meet with e now, that you would raise my heart up in joy in the knowledge and love of you. I pray that you would cover all my s...