For anyone concerned for the future of the church in Scotland - a prayer to pray

Reading through Ian Murray's A Scottish Christian Heritage (published by the Banner of Truth) I came across a prayer of Thomas Chalmers which he prayed,while he was minister of Kilmany in Fife, for his parish and the surrounding area. If you share a concern for the future well being of the church in Scotland, let me encourage you to pray regularly in similar terms to Chalmers' words for your own church and surrounding communities and for Scotland as a whole:

Thy blessing and thy Spirit, O Lord, be on this parish and neighbourhood. O that a day of power and of refreshing were to come amongst them. I implore thy Spirit on behalf of this county. O may its ministers be turned to the Lord. O send them pastors according to thine own heart....Stay not thine arm, O God; make it bare. Come forth in the might of thy all-subduing Spirit, and reveal Christ in many hearts, for His sake. (p88)