A Prayer for Preservation from Affliction

A Prayer for Preservation from Affliction

LORD, Who knowest all things, and lovest all men better than we know; Thine is might, and wisdom, and love to save us. As our fathers called unto Thee, and were holpen, and were led along the ways Thou sawest good, so, in all time of need, from all evil, the evil of our time and of our hearts, deliver us, good Lord.

From all perplexity of mind; from loneliness of thought, and discontented brooding; from wondering what Thou wouldst have us do, deliver us, Lord. Especially from whatever sin besets us, save and deliver us with might, O Lord.

From all bereavement, sorrow, and desertion; from all things that separate us from each other and from our God; from all evils we have prayed against, and from all evils we have not thought of, deliver, O Lord, Thy servants, whose hope is in Thy goodness for ever; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.