Occasional Prayers

Eternal and gracious God, who art slow to anger and of great kindness: Have mercy upon thy faithless and backsliding Church. We mourn, and confess to thee, our sins, the poverty of our devotion and the weakness of our testimony. Pardon, cleanse and restore us, we humbly beseech thee. Fill us with the power of thy Holy Spirit, that we thy people may be humbled and sanctified, and that the multitudes who are lost to thee may be convicted of their sins and converted to their Saviour; for the glory of his saving name.