Example Of A Prayer Of Consecration

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By Hannah W. Smith on January 1, 2010 ,

 Prayer Of Hannah Smith

I feel that perhaps it will help me to write out a definite consecration of myself to God so that I may distinctly grasp the reality and irrevocableness of it.

Lord, I am yours, yours wholly, and yours forever! I am yours by the purchase of your blood, and I present myself to you now as a living sacrifice, body, soul, and spirit to be as clay in your hands.

I give you my heart, Lord, to love only what you love; to hate what you hate; to endure all things, to suffer long and be kind, to be not easily provoked; to think no evil, not to seek my own. Help me, oh my God!...

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Hannah W. Smith

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Hannah W. Smith, Author, (1832-1911) an American evangelist and reformer, a public speaker and writer in the Holiness movement of the late 19th century and the Higher Life movement in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. She was also active in the Women's suffrage movement and the Temperance movement. Hannah published The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life, Every-day Religion; or The Common-sense Teaching of the Bible and The Unselfishness of God and How I Discovered It: A Spiritual Autobiography, as well as numerous pamphlets, tracts, and articles. She became a prominent advocate of college education for women. Hannah helped found the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in 1874 and in 1883 became superintendent of its new Evangelistic Department.

 

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