This is my ‘modernisation’ of Valley of Vision’s prayer on The Lord’s Supper.

God of All Good,

I bless You for the means of grace in the finished work of Christ. Teach me to see in it Your loving purposes and the joy and strength of my soul.

You have prepared for me a feast; and though I am unworthy to sit down as Your guest, I wholly rest on the merits of Jesus, and hide myself beneath His righteousness. When I hear His tender invitation, and see His wondrous grace, I cannot hesitate but must come to You in love. By Your Spirit enliven my faith rightly to discern the Saviour and enliven our spirit to apprehend the Saviour.

While I gaze upon the emblems of my Saviour’s death, may I ponder why He died, and hear Him say,

“I gave my life to purchase yours, presented myself an offering to rid your sin, shed my blood to blot out your guilt, opened my side to make you clean, endured your curses to set you free, bore your condemnation to satisfy divine justice.”

O may I rightly grasp the breadth and length of this design, draw near, obey, extend the hand, take the bread, receive the cup, eat and drink, testify before all men that I do for myself, gladly, in faith, reverence and love, receive my Lord, to be my life, strength, nourishment, joy, and delight.

In the supper I remember His eternal love, boundless grace, infinite compassion, agony, cross, redemption, and receive assurance of pardon, adoption, life, and glory.

As the outward elements nourish my body, so may Your indwelling Spirit invigorate my soul, until that day when I hunger and thirst no more, and sit with Jesus at His heavenly feast.