Old things New Podcast

Prayer Heavenly Father, I give you thanks for the new day before us. I praise you for your steadfast mercies on this new day. I praise and thank you for your marvellous word. In the reading of your word this morning, O Lord, please feed my soul. Unite my heart to fear your name. Lead me in the way everlasting, please quicken my heart and strengthen me for the challenges to come in the day ahead. M...

Prayer Heavenly Father, we give thanks to you for this day. We praise you. We ask, O Lord, that your kingdom may come and that your will may be done on earth as it is in heaven. And Lord, as we read your word now, may that be realized. May your will be realized in our lives. Please unite our hearts to fear your name. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Reading Gen 2:1-3. “ Thus the heavens and the earth...

Prayer Reading Gen 1:24-31. “ And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that...

Prayer Heavenly Father, I give you thanks for this new day of life, all praise to you for your preserving grace in my life. I thank you for your patience with me, and for the many ways in which you have protected and preserved me when I would have rushed headlong in to sin. Thank you that you have been such a good and kind God to me. Lord, as I embark upon these studies into your word – in to the...

Prayer Heavenly Father, I praise you. You are the Supreme Potentate who rules over all things. I praise you for the sovereign ordering of my life, that you have perfectly directed all of my providences in perfect wisdom. I praise you for my joys. I praise you for my provisions. I praise you for my trials. I praise you for my pains. You have done all things well, and I praise you that eternity will...

Prayer Heavenly Father, I thank and praise you for this new day of life. I do not deserve the least of your kindnesses and benefits, and yet day after day your mercies are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. Lord, as you have in your faithfulness sustained my physical life, I pray and ask that you may renew and sustain my spiritual life this morning. As I read your word, please open my...

Prayer Heavenly Father, At the start of this new day, I life up my eyes to the hills for my help, my help comes from you, O Lord, Maker of heaven and earth. All glory be to your name, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. You are worthy to be praised, worshipped, and adored. I have made a poor return unto you for all of your goodness to me. I stand in great and continual need of mercy. Please forgive me a...

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...