Posts from October 2024
Praying the Psalms: 141
A PSALM OF DAVID.O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me!Give ear to my voice when I call to you!Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth;keep watch over the door of my lips!Do not let my heart incline to any evil,to busy myself with wicked deedsin company with men who work iniquity,and let me not eat of their delicacies!Let a…
Praying the Psalms: 139
TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID.O LORD, you have searched me and known me!You know when I sit down and when I rise up;you discern my thoughts from afar.You search out my path and my lying downand are acquainted with all my ways.Even before a word is on my tongue,behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.You hem me in, behind and before,and lay your hand upon me.Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;it is high; I cannot attain it.Where…
Prayer Corner: Week of October 20th
Message, For you Lord are good and ready to forgive.Psalm 86:5. A lesson to learn about prayer If you ever experienced the loss of a loved one or are facing a serious Illness, you know that God’s answers to your prayers are not always What you want or expect. Sometimes His answers are hard to under- Stand. You pray for relief but instead things get worse. Should negative developments change your commitment to pray and…
Praying the Psalms: 138
OF DAVID.I give you thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart;before the gods I sing your praise;I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your namefor your steadfast love and your faithfulness,for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.On the day I called, you answered me;my strength of soul you increased.All the kings of the earth shall give you thanks, O LORD,for they have heard the words of your mouth,and they shall sing…
Praying the Psalms: 137
By the waters of Babylon,there we sat down and wept,when we remembered Zion.On the willows there we hung up our lyres.For there our captors required of us songs,and our tormentors, mirth, saying,“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?If I forget you, O Jerusalem,let my right hand forget its skill!Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,if I do not remember you,if I do not set Jerusalem above…