Little Prayer Book

Therefore, I will now begin to pray for this. O God, to You I lift up my eyes; my heart, soul, and everything within me shall praise Your holy name, Amen.

A Short Confession of Sins.

We have sinned, O LORD God, with our fathers; original: mit unsern Vätern — a reference to Psalm 106:6, acknowledging collective and ancestral human fallenness. we have done wrong inwardly through desires, lusts, and thoughts; we have often committed vice and malice outwardly through words and deeds before You and before men: O You Father of all grace and mercy, a God of faith, of righteousness, of love, of hope, of patience, of comfort, of peace, and of all godliness; original: Gottseligkeit — a central Pietist concept meaning a life of active, heartfelt devotion to God. we poor, sinful people ought to pray to You, but how we are able to do so we do not know; indeed, we can neither do nor accomplish it of ourselves (without Your divine help, power, and assistance); give us Your Holy Spirit, who may teach us to pray in spirit and in truth, A reference to John 4:24, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." and forgive

Confession (Bekentniß), Sins (Sünden), Prayer (Gebet), Grace (Gnade), Mercy (Barmherzigkeit), Godliness (Gottseligkeit), Spirit (Geist)