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
Hee hee! *Precious Memories.* *Squeak, squeaking my shoes together.*
Update on Karleigh......from her Mom
"Update on Karleigh.......... Its sooooooo good to be home.Karleigh is doing so much better. Its just going to be a healing process and building up her strength. Her spirits are good most of the time, some days are better than others. We sure do appreciate all of your support and prayers during this time. We love you all. !!!!! Love Donnell"
I liked squeaking my patent leathers too!
These Scriptures were Edifying to my Soul Today:
All you saints,
Sing your hearts out to God;
Thank him to his face.
He gets angry once in a while,
But across a lifetime,
There is only love.
The nights of crying your eyes out
Give way to days of laughter. (Ps.30:4,5)
You did it: you changed wild lament
Into whirling dance;
You ripped off my black mourning band
And decked me with wildflowers.
I'm about to burst with song;
I can't keep quiet about you.
God, my God,
I can't thank you enough! (Ps.30:11,12)
Oh, Your Majesty our King! How we Love to Declare the Glory of Your Name! Our Living God, our Kind and Gracious Lord, Thank You for Wrapping us in Your Grace. Grant Healing and Heavenly Provision to those Calling Upon Thy Name. We Worship You, our Compassionate, Sovereign God of Hosts. Grant our Nation Revival, O Lord, and Lead us to Jesus Again. Through Thy Grace, through Thy Holy Blood we Call Upon our King, amen.
Good news! Thank you for the update. Candle will continue burning a bit longer.
*Squeak, squeak* - now I feel like (and look like) Minnie Mouse. Gloves coming off for a bit to FReep a while.
Oh, I love those Psalms, thank you!
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Thank you everybody who has prayed for me. I truly appreciate your kind thoughts and prayers.
There are moments when my smallness
comes hammering home,
when I bash my head upon the eye of the needle,
when I know that in true wealth, God's measure,
I am but a pauper, standing here, hat in hand.
O Lord, let not my hardheadedness
get in the way of your mercy.
Help me to remember who is Master,
who is servant,
who is Giver,
who controls.
Today, confronted with the reality
that the tissues of strength I hide behind
are but paper walls,
and without your strength,
they crumble in the wind.
Help me, Lord to remember
that it is not my strong hand,
but your hand holding mine,
that it is not my strong back,
but your support,
it is not my wisdom,
but the light that comes from you that matters.
Open my heart, Lord,
and let your light in,
and may I,
in the frailty of my life
thank you for your touch,
this day, and always.
Amen.
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http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/m/y/myhopeis.htm
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus’ Name.
Refrain
On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
When darkness seems to hide His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace.
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
Refrain
His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood.
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my Hope and Stay.
Refrain
When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh may I then in Him be found.
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.
1Co 13:12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
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1Jo 3:2 Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
1Jo 3:3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
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Rev 22:4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
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Rev 3:12 The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.
Rev 3:13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
LORD, you take us from glory to glory.
Even in our weakness, we have learned that you are surely there.
We know this because we know your Word is Truth, we know there is no good thing in us, and our Hope is in nothing less than Jesus and His Righteousness.
We know we have believed and what we believe is TRUE.
We have been delivered by your Hand, in Joy, over and over.
Though pain close over us now, and will do so in the future, yet we remember with all the saints, that you are with us and have heard our cry.
You have brought us into green pastures in peace.
Hold us up while we are yet in tribulation for we are weak and wait only for your help.
Deliver those in need.
Comfort those in Trouble.
Extinguish pain, please LORD in the mighty Name of Jesus,
and let the Redeemed of the LORD Say So!
AMEN
One of my favorite hymns! How did you know?
The Lord knows.
He embraces you with Love through the Body of Christ in the kind signs of His notice to us, and draws near and says, You are Mine, I have called you by your Name.
Psa 8:3 For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish.
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Psa 19:1.... The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky proclaims the work of His hands.
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Psa 111:2 The LORD's works are great, studied by all who delight in them.
Psa 111:3 All that He does is splendid and majestic; His righteousness endures forever.
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Psa 148:3 Praise Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars.
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Rev 4:11 Our Lord and God, You are worthy to receive glory and honor and power, because You have created all things, and because of Your will they exist and were created.
LORD God of Heaven and earth,
I ask that a deep settled confidence would comfort your people as we consider the work of your hands and the beauty we see in this reflection of you as Creator.
Let our hearts and minds be stilled with the wonder and grandeur and awe of your Creation, showing your Mighty Power.
Let the whole earth keep silence before you for you have risen up in your holy place.
I ask you to touch and heal the sick and comfort the troubled.
Put the enemy to flight for the sake of your Son, our Saviour.
Show yourself strong in our behalf.
Let our hearts be fully yours.
Creator of the stars of night,
Thy people’s everlasting light,
Jesu, Redeemer, save us all,
And hear Thy servants when they call.
Thou, grieving that the ancient curse
Should doom to death a universe,
Hast found the medicine, full of grace,
To save and heal a ruined race.
At Whose dread Name, majestic now,
All knees must bend, all hearts must bow;
And things celestial Thee shall own,
And things terrestrial, Lord alone.
O Thou Whose coming is with dread
To judge and doom the quick and dead,
Preserve us, while we dwell below,
From every insult of the foe.
To God the Father, God the Son,
And God the Spirit, Three in One,
Laud, honor, might, and glory be
From age to age eternally.
--Unknown author, 7th Century (Conditor alme siderum)
“The day is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,” says the Lord.
“But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day,” says the Lord. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their relatives, saying, ‘You should know the Lord.’ For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will know me already,” says the Lord. “And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.” (Jer.31:31-34)
How we Long for that Day to Arrive, Your Majesty; Thy Kingdom Come, our Loving Lord of Hosts. Our Hearts Faint with Longing to Behold our King. Help us, Enable us, our Mighty Lord, to Walk in a Manner Pleasing Unto Thee. It is Impossible with men, but All Things are Possible with our God. We Worship You for Your Mercies, Compassionate and Caring Lord. Thank You for Your Every Blessing; Thank You for Loving us through Jesus Christ. Our Shepherd, be Exalted, be Magnified, and be Glorified Forevermore. Hallelujah to the Lovely Lamb of God! You have Saved us, our King! You have Rescued us from an Eternal Death.
We Love You and Praise You, as we Pray in Thy Beautiful Name, amen.
Amen!
Psa 55:16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
Psa 55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
Psa 55:18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
“Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray.” Often, but none too often. Seasons of great need call for frequent seasons of devotion. The three periods chosen are most fitting; to begin, continue, and end the day with God is supreme wisdom. Where time has naturally set up a boundary, there let us set up an altar-stone. The Psalmist means that he will always pray; he will run a line of prayer right along the day and track the sun with his petitions. Day and night he saw his enemies busy (Psa_55:10), and therefore he would meet their activity by continuous prayer. “And cry aloud.” He would give a tongue to his complaint; he would be very earnest in his pleas with heaven. Some cry aloud who never say a word. It is the bell of the heart that rings loudest in heaven. Some read it, “I will muse and murmur;” deep heart-thoughts should be attended with inarticulate but vehement utterances of grief. Blessed be God, moaning is translatable in heaven. A father's heart reads a child's heart. “And he shall hear my voice.” He is confident that he will prevail; he makes no question that he would be heard, he speaks as if already he were answered. When our window is opened towards heaven, the windows of heaven are open to us. Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand.
--The Treasury of David. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Lord thank you that you have, and will deliver my soul in peace from the battle.
Thank you that you fail not.
No one can snatch me out of Your Hand.
Help us to endure today and press in to you a little closer, for love and for help.
Let your Holy Spirit guide me into all Truth and speak to me of Jesus.
Deliver me from the evil one, for YOURS IS THE KINGDOM AND THE POWER AND THE GLORY FOREVER.
IN THE NAME OF JESUS, WE PRAY AND REJOICE.
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/d/e/delmefev.htm
Deliver me from evil, preserve me, Lord, from wrong;
Against the foes that gather be Thou my Helper strong;
From those who plot to hurt me and spread the treacherous snare,
Preserve me, Lord, and keep me safeguarded in Thy care.
O Lord, I have confessed Thee to be my God alone;
O hear my supplication, and be Thy mercy shown;
O God the Lord, my Savior, my Shield amid the strife,
Let not the wicked triumph who plot against my life.
Let evil smite the evil, and cause their overthrow;
The needy and afflicted the Lord will help, I know;
Thy saints, redeemed from evil, their thanks to Thee shall give;
The righteous and the upright shall in Thy presence live.
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http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/f/ofallthe.htm
Of all the thoughts of God that are
Borne inward into souls afar,
Along the psalmist’s music deep,
Now tell me if there any is,
For gift or grace surpassing this:
“He giveth His belovèd sleep”?
What would we give to our beloved?
The hero’s heart to be unmoved,
The poet’s star tuned harp, to sweep,
The patriot’s voice, to teach and rouse,
The monarch’s crown, to light the brows?
He giveth His belovèd sleep.
“Sleep soft, belovèd!” we sometimes say,
Who have no tune to charm away
Sad dreams that through the eyelids creep
But never doleful dream again
Shall break the happy slumber when
He giveth His belovèd sleep.
His dews drop mutely on the hill,
His cloud above it saileth still,
Though on its slope men sow and reap;
More softly than the dew is shed,
Or cloud is floated overhead,
He giveth His belovèd sleep.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Psa 3:5 I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me.
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Psa 65:8 .....You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.
Psa 65:9 You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.
Psa 65:10 You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth.
Psa 65:11 You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.
Psa 65:12 The pastures of the wilderness overflow, the hills gird themselves with joy,
Psa 65:13 the meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy.
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/c/r/creatore.htm
Creator of the earth and sky,
Ruling the firmament on high,
Clothing the day with robes of light,
Blessing with gracious sleep the night.
That rest may comfort weary men,
And brace to useful toil again,
And soothe awhile the harassed mind,
And sorrow’s heavy load unbind.
Day sinks; we thank Thee for Thy gift;
Night comes; and once again we lift
Our prayer and vows and hymns that we
Against all ills may shielded be.
Thee let the secret heart acclaim,
Thee let our tuneful voices name,
Round Thee our chaste affections cling
Thee sober reason own as King.
That when black darkness closes day,
And shadows thicken round our way,
Faith may no darkness know, and night
From faith’s clear beam may borrow light.
Rest not, my heaven born mind and will;
Rest, all the thoughts and deeds of ill;
May faith its watch unwearied keep,
And cool the dreaming warmth of sleep.
From cheats of sense, Lord, keep me free;
And let my heart’s depth dream of Thee;
Let not my envious foe draw near,
To break my rest with any fear.
Pray we the Father and the Son,
And Holy Ghost: O Three in One,
Blest Trinity, Whom all obey,
Guard Thou Thy sheep by night and day.
--Ambrose of Milan (340-397) (Deus Creator omnium)
God is Good to us.
Psa 4:8 In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.
Jealous, and with love o’erflowing,
God demands a fervent heart;
Grace and bounty still bestowing,
Calls us to a grateful part.
Oh, then, with supreme affection
His paternal will regard!
If it cost us some dejection,
Every sigh has its reward.
Perfect love has power to soften
Cares that might our peace destroy,
Nay, does more—transforms them often,
Changing sorrow into joy.
Sovereign Love appoints the measure,
And the number of our pains;
And is pleased when we find pleasure
In the trials he ordains.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Eph.1:3)
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