Assurance of Being Heard for Christ’s Sake

O GOD, Creator of heaven and earth, who hast sent Thy Son, Christ Jesus, for me into this world, that He might be crucified for me, die and rise again on the third day, ascend to heaven and there sit at Thy right hand, hold everything in His hand, send us His Spirit and have us await His coming to judge both the quick and the dead, thus attaining to the eternal kingdom, our inheritance, which Thou wilt give to us through Him. To that end, O Lord God, Thou has instituted Holy Baptism, and the Sacrament of the body and blood of Thy Son; to these sacraments Christ has bound us, and therein He has revealed Himself to us. If in these Sacraments we lay hold on Christ, we surely have Him. All other things not enjoined on us we should dispense with, otherwise we would far miss the mark.