Perhaps My Favorite Prayer

My most merciful and all-merciful God, O Lord Jesus Christ!

In Thy great love, Thou didst come down and become flesh in order to save all. Again, I pray Thee, save me by Grace!

If Thou shouldst save me because of my deeds, it would not be a gift, but merely a duty. Truly, Thou aboundest in graciousness and art inexpressibly merciful!

Thou hast said, O my Christ: “He who believes in me shall live and never see death.” If faith in Thee saves the desperate, behold: I believe!

Save me, for Thou art my God and my Maker.

May my faith replace my deeds, O my God, for Thou wilt find no deeds to justify me.

May my faith be sufficient for all.

May it answer for me; may it justify me; may it make me a partaker of Thine eternal glory; and may Satan not seize me, O Word, and boast that He has torn me from Thy hand and fold.

O Christ, my Savior: save me whether I want it or not!

Come quickly, hurry, for I perish!

Thou art my God from my mother’s womb.

Grant, O Lord, that I may now love Thee as I once loved sin, and that I may labor for Thee without laziness as once I labored for Satan the deceiver. Even more, I will labor for Thee, my Lord and God Jesus Christ, all the days of my life, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.