Confession and Petition

This is the prayer that was read at large group from the Valley of Vision, a collection of Puritan prayers:

Holy Lord,
I have sinned times without number and have been guilty of pride and unbelief, of failure to find Your mind in Your Word, of neglect to seek You in my daily life. My transgressions and shortcomings present me with a list of accusations, but I thank You that they will not stand against me, for all have been laid on Christ. Go on to subdue my corruptions, and grant me grace to live above them. Deliver me from every evil habit, every accretion of former sins, everything that dims the brightness of Your grace in me, everything that prevents me from taking delight in You. Wrap my life in divine love, and keep me ever desiring You, always humble and impassioned to Your will, that you would rule over me in liberty and in power. Amen.