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 Fathers throne
Make all my wants and wishes known.
In seasons of distress and grief,
My soul has often found relief
And oft escaped the tempters 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
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Amen and Amen
I find it so uplifting to spend time in here, reading and holding on to hope and the Word. Polly
We love you Polly.
((hugs to pollywog))
Friday morning in spring, full moon time,
Was the weather mild or cool that day
While the judge sat there, contemplating a crime
As the crowd swelled the city, making their way
At Passover time?
Did the whisper pass from ear to ear
That morning about the trial,
While those in the know crowded in to hear
What others said with a certain bile
At Passover time?
How big was the crowd in the courtyard that day?
An unexpected spectacle to prove their worth
As Abraham's sons, their cries for death part of the way
To give a new covenant a birth
At Passover time.
How frail you must have seemed when he presented you
Bloody and beaten, crowned with thorn
to the angry crowd with their cries and their hue,
Looking not like a king, but a person to mourn
At Passover time.
As the sentence was passed and the verdict he gave,
They led you away to die by cross and by nail
A new passage of blood on life's lintel to save
By your sacrifice there as the women did wail
At Passover time.
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You have Seen me
Tossing and Turning through the Night.
You have Collected All my Tears
And Preserved them in Your Bottle!
You have Recorded Every One in Your Book. (Ps.56:8)
You Saw me Before I was Born,
And Scheduled Each Day of my Life
Before I Began to Breath.
Every Day was Recorded in Your Book.
How Precious it is, Lord,
To Realize that You are Thinking
About me Constantly!
I can't Even Count how Many Times a Day
Your Thoughts Turn Towards me.
And when I Awaken in the Morning,
You are Still Thinking of me! (Ps.139:17,18)
Day by Day the Lord Pours Out
His Steadfast Love Upon me. (Ps.42:8)
From All Eternity,
The Lord has Said to me,
"I have Loved you
With an Everlasting Love:
Therefore with Lovingkindness
Have I Drawn you to Me." (Jer.31:3)
You are Beloved of God the Father,
Called, and Kept Safe
By Jesus Christ. (Jude1:1)
O Jehovah, our Lord,
The Majesty and Glory
Of Your Name
Fills the Earth! (Ps.8:9)
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/l/j/ljehovar.htm
The Lord Jehovah reigns; His throne is built on high.
The garments He assumes are light and majesty.
His glories shine
With beams so bright no mortal eye
Can bear the sight.
The thunders of His hand keep the wide world in awe;
His wrath and justice stand to guard His holy law.
And where His love
Resolves to bless His truth confirms
And seals the grace.
Through all His mighty works surprising wisdom shines
Confounds the powers of hell, and breaks their cursed designs.
Strong is His arm,
And shall fulfill His great decrees,
His sovereign will.
And will this mighty King of glory condescend,
And will He write His Name: My Father and my Friend?
I love His Name;
I love His Word. Join, all my powers,
And praise the Lord!
--Isaac Watts
Psa 93:1 The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
Psa 93:2 Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting.
Psa 93:3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.
Psa 93:4 Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty!
Psa 93:5 Your decrees are very trustworthy; holiness befits your house, O LORD, forevermore.
THE LORD REIGNS, NO MATTER WHAT WE SEE WITH THE EYES, YET BY FAITH WE KNOW THE LORD REIGNS AND MAY HIS WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
LET YOUR KINGDOM COME ALMIGHTY AND WONDERFUL FATHER.
LET EVERYTHING THAT HAS BREATH PRAISE THE LORD AND ECHO WITHOUT END, THE LORD REIGNS.
THE LORD REIGNS. THE SOUND HOLDS ME FAST IN YOUR HAND. IT SURROUNDS ME WITH A WALL OF LOVE AND CONFIDENT TRUST.
Exo 15:11 "Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
THE LORD REIGNS.
Prayer need for a little girl:
Posted on 02/16/2007 1:57:55 PM PST by jmaroneps37
It hardly seems possible and it is very unfair, but my 4 year old grand daughter is once agin sick with pneumonia. She is even now being rushed to a hospital. Abby just got over the last bout with pneumonia a few weeks ago. Please pray for her and my son Liam and his wife Jessica
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1786177/posts
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And where His love
Resolves to bless His truth confirms
And seals the grace.
Thank you so, so much for that whole post, my sister. How I love thee! God is blessing thee and I keep you in prayer for His Marvelous Healing, amen.
Dear Sister,
Thank you for your kindness.
A prayer request for my Mother who is 79 and just fell out on her front step sweeping snow.
I don't think her hip is broken, but my husband just took her to get an xray.
thank you
bp
It is my sincere privilege to pray for your mom in the Name Above All Names - JESUS!
Prayers for your mom! That's a scary thing at her age for sure.
Amen.
Late, but appreciative {{huggss}}.
Sometimes like ashes, Lord, as I come here to pray
like the charred remains of all my good intentions,
the words I want to say dry up, blow away,
I am left here, speechless, my heart a bare indention,
an empty thumbprint.
Kyrie eleison.
Dust and ashes - from dust we are made,
And it is your breath that gives that dust a soul,
A reason to reach out and touch before we fade
back into that dust, a purpose and a goal
so often unfulfilled.
Kyrie eleison.
Today I know the taste of dust, of what my flesh will be,
Hear my stumbling voice that cries out, wordless, lost,
Today I taste the ashes of my remorse, and see
How empty the cup, how painful is life's cost,
Spent in self-deception.
Kyrie eleison
Today, in the sackcloth and ashes of a pierced heart,
I kneel down before you, all wordless dust, and broken soul,
Forgive my self-deceptions and sin that keep us apart,
Forgive my dry and dusty self that longs to be whole
In the palm of your hand.
Kyrie eleison
Susan E. Stone, 2007
Lent begins on Wednesday, and I know that not all of us practice that devotion, but it is a time for looking into one's heart and recommitting to one's walk with God and to meditate on what Jesus did to bring salvation.
I've been pondering some things as we move into that season, and I will probably post a few of them as we go along towards Easter. Here's one:
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
Mother Teresa
Loving is not easy. When we love, we are open to the bruises and bumps of the ones who touch our lives, and yet, love is demanded of us by Christ.
He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness still. He who loves his brother abides in the light, and in it there is no cause for stumbling. But he who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. 1 John 2: 9-11 RSV
Having anger gnaws away at the heart, and creates the ground that evil breeds in. We see this happening all over the world...in countries ripped apart by civil war, in places where groups traditionally hated each other and therefore, when social control comes off, they attack each other. Ruwanda was like that, where blood flowed as hundreds and hundreds of people were slaughtered because of traditional hatreds. When Yugoslavia fell apart, people who had been neighbors for years suddenly found themselves on the wrong side of the ethnic divide, and began attacking each other.
But it happens in homes, too. Hardly a week goes by without hearing about someone who killed their spouse or exspouse, their parent or their children because of anger and hate and desire to force those people into behaviors they don't want to be. Honor killings. Spousal and child abuse. Neighbors who get into fights, sometimes leading to injury or death.
Yet as Christians, we are meant to be salt, to preserve goodness in the land where anger and hate live. Light, to show there is another way. Leaven, to be that matter that opens up the heaviness that a sin-stained life breeds, to let the light and peace of heaven spread across the land.
Mother Teresa also said something worth pondering: "Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world. " Love, the light that comes from Heaven through our hands starts at home, with the world around us. Things are transformed one heart at a time, one selfless action at a time, one smile at a time, one "I understand" at a time.
And it's an ongoing action, an ongoing need. One never loves enough.
Then Peter came up and said to him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?"
Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.
"Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began the reckoning, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents; and as he could not pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, `Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.'
"And out of pity for him the lord of that servant released him and forgave him the debt.
"But that same servant, as he went out, came upon one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and seizing him by the throat he said, `Pay what you owe.' So his fellow servant fell down and besought him, `Have patience with me, and I will pay you.'
"He refused and went and put him in prison till he should pay the debt. When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their lord all that had taken place.
"Then his lord summoned him and said to him, `You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you besought me; and should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?' And in anger his lord delivered him to the jailers, till he should pay all his debt.
"So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart."
Matthew 18:21-35 RSV
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