Jer 2:13 For my people hath done two evils. They have forsaken me the well of the water of life, and digged them pits, yea vile and broken pits, that hold no water.
OH LORD hear my complaint. Why have your people hungered for other than the Manna which you have sent, the True Bread from heaven? Why do they hurry after the foolish teachings of men that blend philosophy and vain deceit with just a little of your Word?
Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Father, please forgive the neglect of your Word and return the hearts of your people to the LIVING WORD. LORD, cause your shepherds to lead the flocks into good and green pastures by still waters, into Paths of Righteousness.
I ask that you would cause the shepherds to remember the pure and Holy joy of your Word and the face of your Son that we see there.
I pray that your people would return to Holiness in your sight.
Heb 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
I ask these things in the Name above all names, that at the Name of Jesus, every knee would bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is LORD to the Glory of the Father.
What a dirge we send You, Lord, time and time again,
Injustice is the major tune, hurt and grief and pain,
Hearts burning with angry fire, while our tears fall like rain.
Teach us, Lord, how to forgive!
Blow by blow we forge it, each link of hate's own chain,
Created by our own hard hearts, black with anger's stain -
Each wrong done a brand new link, each new gift of pain.
Teach us, Lord, how to forgive!
Harder than steel it wraps our lives, this chain we forge of hate,
Bitter as sin, hotter than fire as it shifts through our lives to create
New wounds, new hurts that lead ever on to Hell's open, hungry gate.
Teach us, Lord, how to forgive!
You, O Lord, gave the one true key to unlock this evil chain,
Forgive, you said, and if needed more, forgive them once again.
"Forgive," you showed us by your own words said in your dying pain.
O Lord, give us hearts that will forgive!