PRAYERS FOR DAVE AND FAMILY!
"My people shall dwell in quiet resting places."
- Isaiah 32:18
Peace and rest belong not to the unregenerate, they are the peculiar
possession of the Lord's people, and of them only. The God of Peace gives
perfect peace to those whose hearts are stayed upon him. When man was
unfallen, his God gave him the flowery bowers of Eden as his quiet resting
places; alas! how soon sin blighted the fair abode of innocence. In the
day of universal wrath when the flood swept away a guilty race, the chosen
family were quietly secured in the resting-place of the ark, which floated
them from the old condemned world into the new earth of the rainbow and
the covenant, herein typifying Jesus, the ark of our salvation. Israel
rested safely beneath the blood-besprinkled habitations of Egypt when the
destroying angel smote the first-born; and in the wilderness the shadow of
the pillar of cloud, and the flowing rock, gave the weary pilgrims sweet
repose. At this hour we rest in the promises of our faithful God, knowing
that his words are full of truth and power; we rest in the doctrines of
his word, which are consolation itself; we rest in the covenant of his
grace, which is a haven of delight.
More highly favoured are we than David in Adullam, or Jonah beneath his
gourd, for none can invade or destroy our shelter.
The person of Jesus is the quiet resting-place of his people, and when we
draw near to him in the breaking of the bread, in the hearing of the word,
the searching of the Scriptures, prayer, or praise, we find any form of
approach to him to be the return of peace to our spirits.
"I hear the words of love, I gaze upon the blood,
I see the mighty sacrifice, and I have peace with God.
'Tis everlasting peace, sure as Jehovah's name,
'Tis stable as his steadfast throne, for evermore the same:
The clouds may go and come, and storms may sweep my sky,
This blood-sealed friendship changes not, the cross is ever nigh."
C.H.SPURGEON!
Psa 57:7 My heart is confident, God, my heart is confident. I will sing; I will sing praises.
Psa 57:8 Wake up, my soul! Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.
Psa 57:9 I will praise You, Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to You among the nations.
Psa 57:10 For Your faithful love is as high as the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
Psa 57:11 God, be exalted above the heavens; let Your glory be over the whole earth.
Isa 51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, that pierced the dragon?
Isa 52:1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city:
Rom 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
1Co 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not;
Eph 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Rev 3:3 Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.
Rev 3:4 Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
Rev 3:5 The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.
Rev 3:6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
Oh Lord of all, King of the Universe, give us an awakening.
We ask you for it, so that you might be Glorified in these last days, and that we should no longer drowse and sleep.
I thank you for the praise and glory that your persecuted Church brings you.
I thank you that you will be ever with us today as we go.
We ask you urgently for help for those who are in difficulty. Wake Dave out of his sleep. Help the orphans and widows in their trouble.
I ask for our Daily bread today.
You are Good and your Mercy endures forever.
Let me not be like the man who, beholding himself in a mirror, turns and forgets what he sees, by forgetting your Word as I turn to my day's work.
I ask for a new infilling of your Holy Spirit for all in this prayer fellowship and for every church where we attend and for all our families, and for your entire Precious Body.
Help us be fully awake.
I ask this according to your will in Jesus' Name.