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For myself:
Lord, today I turn my back on death and evil. Instead, I choose life and good that I and my children may live, loving you, the LORD my God and holding fast to you, for you are my life and length of days.
Lord, may N(&N) turn away from death and evil today. May she/he/they choose life and good that she/he/they and his/her/their children may live, loving you, the LORD his/her/their God and holding fast to you, for you are his/her/their life and length of days.
O, yes!!
Deuteronomy 30.15, 19
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Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof…
We are not worthy to have you come into this hospital room or even to ask you for this,
…but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. (Mt 8.8)
…and my family member, my friend, my parishioner, will be healed.
O, yes!
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CLEAN HANDS, PURE HEARTS, no FALSEHOOD or DECEIT from Psalm 24 and FOR THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY from Ephesians 1: for my family, for our church and for downtown Medicine Hat.
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A challenging three words in my A Guide to Prayer reading from Luke 14 this morning:
Any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. (v33)
Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. (v27)
If I want to be His disciple I must renounce, bear and go.
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Widen my heart.
Widen our hearts.
Widen their hearts.
So we are less likely to be restricted by our own affections.
From today’s epistle: 2 Cor 6.12 and 13.
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My post-before-last started what I thought might become a little Bible “triads” series—three word phrases that pique my devotional and intercessory interest. Imagine my surprise when yesterday I found a piece by Allan Dobras over at VirtueOnLine entitled “The Three Most Important Words.” In his musing on what is happening to Easter and Christianity in America he wonders what are the most important words ever spoken to humankind. He first suggests “In the beginning,” might be a contender, and “Come Lord Jesus,” but then there’s “It is finished!”—all profound and evocative statements worthy of reflection and prayer—but the most important, he suggests, is “He is Risen.”
that all the people I love would come to know that He is Risen if they haven’t yet realized that fact and those that know it, can be faithful and fruitful witnesses of it.
Read “The Three Most Important Words” here.
There will come a time when every culture, every institution, every nation, the human race, all biological life, is extinct, and every one of us is still alive.
This from The Weight of Glory in my Readings for Reflection in A Guide to Prayer.
In one of his books, Dallas Willard asks, “Have you ever thought about what you’ll be doing in ten thousand years?” I guess it depends on whether or not Alan Dobras’ three most important words are true, and whether or not one believes it.
He is Risen, indeed! Alleluia!
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My Psalm for the week in A Guide to Prayer is 126, that wonderful little one about the laughter and joy that come after the weeping, when fortunes are restored. The restoration is so amazing that it is like a dream; too good to be true.
Thanks to this YWAM publication, A Voice for the Voiceless: 30 Days of Prayer for the Voiceless: addressing global issues of gender-based injustice. See here (don’t know why this shows as strike through). I find myself praying for people, women and girls mostly, who badly need their fortunes restored. I found the book at Hosting His Presence, 48 hours of worship and prayer here in the Hat last weekend.
The last three days have covered child prostitution, AIDS and domestic violence. The numbers are horrific. I guess I knew that, but the enormity and specifics of the problem gets lost in the minutiae of my comfortable and secure day to day life. To come: Pakistan (where, I learned today that, 70-90% of women experience domestic violence), abortion, refugees, eating disorders, purdah, female labourers, China, incest, barren women, pornography, female suicide bombers, starvation, trafficking, Afghanistan, female genital mutilation, teenage mothers, honour killings, prostitution, war, Africa, rape, dowry, missing women, education, single mothers, Iran and slavery.
Psalm 126 can be a lovely prayer for all who are experiencing hard times; the sick, the unemployed, the abused, those in stressed relationships; the list goes on. Pray that the LORD in His mercy will restore their fortunes so that they, too, will be like those who dream and that they will laugh and shout for joy. Soon. Amen.
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I am praying that s/he/you:
may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. (John 20.31, ESV)
Oh, yes! A good prayer.
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Pray that God will shine in my/her/his/our/their heart(s) to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
The purest, clearest light and the most precious face in the world.
“And Jesus, looking at him, loved him” (Mk 10.21) before asking him to give it all up and follow him.
That face.
O, yes!
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