[Irish Rose]

A call to prayer.

[The Mayor]

April 12, 2008

What Did He Say?

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READ: Psalm 19:7-14

Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. —Jeremiah 15:16

Because our son Steve spent most of his teen years connected to a cell phone, it was a bit of a shock for us when we couldn't talk with him for long periods of time after he joined the US Navy. First at boot camp and later while he trained as a hospital corpsman, we endured long periods of time without any communication. So it was a treat whenever we finally did hear from him.

After one of us would get his call, the first question from the other was always, "What did he say?" We hung on every word to hear how he was doing, what he was thinking, and what the Navy was planning for him.

It's natural to respond like this to the words of those who are important to us. We eagerly anticipate hearing from them.

Are we like that with the Word of God? Are we eager to communicate with Him—to look carefully into His Book to ask, "What did He say?" Unlike the infrequent calls from a son in the military, God's words of encouragement and guidance are always available to us. We just have to listen.

The prophet Jeremiah prayed, "Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart" (Jer. 15:16). Do you have that same longing to hear God speak to you through His Word?

Thy Word is a lamp to my feet,
A light to my path alway
To guide and to save me from sin
And show me the heavenly way. —Anon.

We cannot know the heart of God unless we have a heart for God.

Bible in One Year: John 11–15; Proverbs 5:1-14

[wizr]

Amen to your beautiful prayer. Through God’s Word we unite. May your day be wonderful and your evening be better.

A portion of Senator Joe McCarthy’s speech dated 1950!!

[alpha-8-25-02]

AMEN SISTER AND GRACE TO ALL CHRISTIAN PATRIOTS!

“My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.”
- Psalm 22:14

Our blessed Lord experienced a terrible sinking and melting of soul. “The
spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit who can
bear?” Deep depression of spirit is the most grievous of all trials; all
besides is as nothing. Well might the suffering Saviour cry to his God,
“Be not far from me,” for above all other seasons a man needs his God when
his heart is melted within him because of heaviness. Believer, come near
the cross this morning, and humbly adore the King of glory as having once
been brought far lower, in mental distress and inward anguish, than any
one among us; and mark his fitness to become a faithful High Priest, who
can be touched with a feeling of our infirmities. Especially let those of
us whose sadness springs directly from the withdrawal of a present sense
of our Father’s love, enter into near and intimate communion with Jesus.
Let us not give way to despair, since through this dark room the Master
has passed before us.
Our souls may sometimes long and faint, and thirst even to anguish, to
behold the light of the Lord’s countenance: at such times let us stay
ourselves with the sweet fact of the sympathy of our great High Priest.
Our drops of sorrow may well be forgotten in the ocean of his griefs; but
how high ought our love to rise! Come in, O strong and deep love of Jesus,
like the sea at the flood in spring tides, cover all my powers, drown all
my sins, wash out all my cares, lift up my earth-bound soul, and float it
right up to my Lord’s feet, and there let me lie, a poor broken shell,
washed up by his love, having no virtue or value; and only venturing to
whisper to him that if he will put his ear to me, he will hear within my
heart faint echoes of the vast waves of his own love which have brought me
where it is my delight to lie, even at his feet for ever.

C.H.SPURGEON

SOLI DEO GLORIA!

[tajgirvan]

Lord, we pray for the comfort and deliverance of the persecuted church*****

Thank for your prayer for our persecuted Church!
May we Bless the Name of the Lord forever and forever.
I stand with you and say Amen, in Jesus Christ Name.

[Alamo-Girl]

I join in prayer for President Bush, the Administration, the election and our heroes standing in harm’s way!