I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life godly and dignified in every way. This is good and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and there is one mediator between God and men. The man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle. I am telling the truth. I am not lying. A teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. 1 Timothy 2:1-7.

Oh Lord, I am prone to depart from you and give into lukewarmness and indifference when I ought to have a holy zeal. My temptations are many. I often yield to them. I have no strength of my own to resist them. I beseech you, therefore, oh my God, to be very merciful to me, a sinner. Incline and enable me to come to Jesus Christ weary and heavy laden as I am to find rest in Him. Teach me my own guilt and ruin and help me to rely on His blood and to build all my hopes on His righteousness. Oh, grant that being grafted in Christ, I may live to Him. Isaac Watts.