Fasting

PRAY TO ENDURE THROUGH FASTING

O Lord Jesus! how continually You have to reprove us for our unbelief! How strange it must appear to You, this terrible incapacity of trusting our Father and His promises.

Lord! Let Your reproof, with its searching ‘Because of your unbelief,’ sink into the very depths of our hearts, and reveal to us how much of the sin and suffering around us is our blame. And then teach us, Blessed Lord, that there is a place where faith can be learned and gained, – even in the prayer and fasting that brings into living and abiding fellowship with Yourself and the Father.

Savior! You Yourself are the Author and the Perfecter of our faith; teach us what it is to let You live in us by Your Holy Spirit. Lord! Our efforts and prayers for grace to believe have been so unavailing. We know why it was: we sought for strength in ourselves to be given from You.

Holy Jesus! Do at length teach us the mystery of Your life in us, and how You, by Your Spirit, do undertake to live in us the life of faith, to see to it that our faith shall not fail.

O let us see that our faith will just be a part of that wonderful prayer-life which You give in them who expect their training for the ministry of intercession, not in word and thought only, but in the Holy Unction You give. the inflowing of the Spirit of Your own life. And teach us how, in fasting and prayer, we may grow up to the faith to which nothing shall be impossible. Amen.