A Converts First Prayer

My Father,

I could never have sought my happiness in Your love, unless You had first loved me.

Your Spirit has encouraged me by grace to seek You, has made known to me Your reconciliation in Jesus, has taught me to believe it, has helped me to take You for my God and portion.

May He grant me to grow in the knowledge and experience of Your love, and walk in it all the way to glory.

Blessed for ever be Your fatherly affection, which chose me to be one of Your children by faith in Jesus:  I thank You for giving me the desire to live as such.

In Jesus, my brother, I have my new birth, every restraining power, every renewing grace.

It is by Your Spirit I call You Father, believe in You, love You; Strengthen me inwardly for every purpose of my Christian life; 

Let the Spirit continually reveal to me my interest in Christ, and open to me the riches of Your love in Him; may He abide in me that I may know my union with Jesus, and enter into constant fellowship with Him; 

By Your Spirit may I daily live to You, rejoice in Your love, find it the same to me as to Your Son, and become rooted and grounded in it as a house on a rock;

I know but little – increase my knowledge of Your love in Jesus, keep me pressing forward for clearer discoveries of it, so that I may find its eternal fullness;

Magnify Your love to me according to its greatness, and not according to my deserts or prayers, and whatever increase You give, let it draw out greater love to You.