Posted on 11/09/2006 6:49:58 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum
Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
Psalm 127:1>
At this time, when feelings run high, the world seems crazy, and anger seems to be the one thing the peoples of the world have in common, I invite you, my fellow FReepers, to join me in prayers and meditation for guidance, God's help and for our fellow man, for America, our troops, and all our own needs.
Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer!
That calls me from a world of care,
And bids me at my Father’s throne
Make all my wants and wishes known.
In seasons of distress and grief,
My soul has often found relief
And oft escaped the tempter’s snare
By thy return, sweet hour of prayer!
William Bradbury
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear though the earth should change,
though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea;
though its waters roar and foam,
though the mountains tremble with its tumult.
Psalm 46: 1-3
Nice way of putting it. I hope you're feeling better tonight.
Thank you. I wish I could say "yes," but I can't. At least I was able to get 2 of my 3 needed errands done today - but had been needing to do them for 4 days and couldn't breathe well enough.
Thanks for your well-wishes and those of all our Prayer Room FReepers. Not sure if this is temporary this time or more long-term, like it's seeming. We'll see. Loaded up on more preventive stuff today, just in case.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Perhaps tomorrow will bring a change!
Thank you for letting us know that things have improved and for sharing the inspirational prayer. God Bless you.
BTTT
This is wonderful news. May God continue to bless you.
Between the midnight of those who reach out in hate
Shedding blood on the streets in God's holy name,
And those who see religion as the source of pain and disgrace
And see life on this Earth as just a meaningless game,
Let me stand here beneath Your cross, Lord,
And know that Your ways and theirs just are not the same.
Between the easy answer of it's all about me,
And the anger that lets frightened souls die
As offerings to hate that say "I'm stronger than you,"
As others choose nothingness as an end to the cry,
Let me stand here beneath Your cross, Lord,
And see in Your light the blackness of Satan's dark lie.
Let me stand here beneath Your cross, Lord,
that place touched in such an unusual way,
God walking as man beneath the Sun He made,
Where You stand to welcome us, to heal our hearts of clay,
Let me stand here beneath Your cross, Lord,
When all else is darkness, You are my day.
"You are my Day"
2Pe 1:16 For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2Pe 1:17 For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,"
2Pe 1:18 we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain.
2Pe 1:19 And we have something more sure, the prophetic word, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts......
Amen
BTTT
Exo 34:14 (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God)......
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Isa 42:8 I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.
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Act 4:12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
Thank you LORD, Redeemer, King, for this great Salvation.
Thank you that you never stop your Kindness or your Love or your intention to Save us to the uttermost.
Bless those who have cried to you today and save the perishing who know not your Name.
Bring them one who will tell them of your Saving Love and finished Work.
I ask this with Hope and Joy,
In the Matchless Name of JESUS.
Heb 7:25 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/h/a/halwasav.htm
Man of Sorrows! what a name
For the Son of God, Who came
Ruined sinners to reclaim.
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
Bearing shame and scoffing rude,
In my place condemned He stood;
Sealed my pardon with His blood.
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
Guilty, vile, and helpless we;
Spotless Lamb of God was He;
“Full atonement!” can it be?
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
Lifted up was He to die;
“It is finished!” was His cry;
Now in Heav’n exalted high.
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
When He comes, our glorious King,
All His ransomed home to bring,
Then anew His song we’ll sing:
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
You stand there, Lord, looking small, forlorn
Before the haughty Roman judge,
Beneath the twisted crown of thorn
Bloody and beaten, Your face a smudge
Ecce Homo!
Looking at the gathered crowd
As You lift your bloodied head
You see them crying, hungry, loud
longing to see You dead.
Ecce Homo!
No self-pity touches you there,
Standing beaten, carrier of sin,
But love and grief at what you bear,
To save their souls within.
Ecce Homo!
What depth of care under bloody crown
Shows softly in your eyes,
Not cry or blow or anger's frown
Can hide the love that within you lies.
Ecce Homo!
Lord, I am not worthy to meet your eyes,
The love that lingers there for me
Have I not, like Peter, told my lies,
Then longed to hide where you could not see?
Ecce Homo!
Or like Judas, have I not betrayed you?
Reached out my hand for some fool's gold
In the dark of my heart, by what I chose to do,
With love grown empty, life grown cold.
Ecce Homo!
And yet here you stand with loving heart
pouring yourself out like a drink offering,
letting the cup be drained, your death the start
of an undeserved rebirth, a unexpected spring.
Ecce Homo!
Help me to know the truth you show,
The ways of love deeper than the sea,
God's gift of life that I might grow
Into the child you want me to be.
Ecce Homo!
BTTT
BTTT
Here is a scripture that I return to:
Psalm 139: 23, 24
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way.
"The Word became flesh and blood,
And dwelt among us.
We saw the glory with our own eyes,
The one-of-a-kind glory,
Like Father, like Son,
Generous inside and out,
True from start to finish." (Jn.1:14)
What a Glorious God is ours!
"Everything was created through him;
Nothing—not one thing!—
Came into being without him.
What came into existence was Life,
And the Life was Light to live by.
The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness;
The darkness couldn't put it out." (Jn.1:3-5)
We Worship Your Glory, our King; we Adore You for Your Loving Grace. To our Faithful God, we Lift Up our Hearts in Praise. Thank You for Your Answers to Prayer; Thank You for Your Boundless Love. Be Present in Marvelous Ways in our Lives, our Shepherd-Lord. Your Magnificence Humbles us; we Sing of the Glory of Thy Name. We Love You Dearly, O Father our King, as we Pray in Your Son's Grace, amen.
Amen KAC,
Behold the Man.
"...The one-of-a-kind glory,
Like Father, like Son...."
Wonderful!
Joh 1:17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Col 2:17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
XX. OLD TESTAMENT GOSPEL.—Hebrews iv.2.
Israel, in ancient days,
Not only had a view
Of Sinai in a blaze,
But learn’d the Gospel too;
The types and figures were a glass
In which they saw a Saviour’s face.
The paschal sacrifice,
And blood-besprinkled door,
Seen with enlighten’d eyes,
And once applied with power,
Would teach the need of other blood,
To reconcile an angry God.
The Lamb, the Dove, set forth
His perfect innocence,
Whose blood of matchless worth
Should be the soul’s defence;
For he who can for sin atone,
Must have no failings of his own.
The scape-goat on his head
The people’s trespass bore,
And, to the desert led,
Was to be seen no more:
In him our Surety seem’d to say,
“Behold, I bear your sins away.”
Dipt in his fellow’s blood,
The living bird went free;
The type, well understood,
Express’d the sinner’s plea;
Described a guilty soul enlarged,
And by a Saviour’s death discharged.
Jesus, I love to trace,
Throughout the sacred page,
The footsteps of thy grace,
The same in every age!
O grant that I may faithful be
To clearer light vouchsafed to me!
--William Cowper
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Amen bump!
Please join us in prayers of condolence for new FReeper Dad of Chris Mason, whose son was killed in Iraq:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1767368/posts
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