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Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem

I love books. I love History. I love Archaeology. And you KNOW I love the Bible! So when a book comes along with a Templar Cross on its cover, a banner saying "Best Seller!", and over 500 pages, you know I am going to jump right on it. Not only that, the book was only a dollar at the Dollar Tree, so what could possibly go wrong?

Well, it started out OK, but then there were quite a few cringe-worthy bits that set off alarms. The similarity to "The Da Vinci Code" (which I despised) was starting to get to me. Then the book body-slammed into a anti-God, anti-Christian, anti-religion speech that went on and on and would have made John Galt blush. "OK. THAT'S ENOUGH!" I said out loud and into the trash can it went. It was not even fit to donate to the Thrift Store. I think I will just re-read Moby Dick, as it has been a while.

Psalm 84 is a thing of beauty. It can be read over and over again, bringing fresh insights and comfort each time. It is a song of longing for the Presence of God, so powerful in its emotional impact, that the Psalmist envies the birds who can fly right into the Sanctuary and build their nests in the aura of God's Glory. The juxtaposition of God and His Creation recalls the same longing as Psalm 42, comparing it to a Deer in the forest panting for water.

Some scholars theorize that this Psalm was written by a Levite who could no longer minister in the Sanctuary because of the Assyrian or Babylonian Invasion. It is beautifully crafted, with 3 Stanzas and a magnificent Coda. Even in English Translations, it has a rhythm and personality, and also some beautiful descriptive Names of God. I would rather read this Psalm than a God-hating NYT Best Seller, just as:

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

Come and Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 5:16)

God Bless America!

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

[trisham]

Thank you, left that other site!

[blueyon]

Amen

[fieldmarshaldj]

Just out of curiosity, what was that book you bought ?

[ConorMacNessa]

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH FOR
THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM!
And for the Preservation of the Valiant
Israeli Nation!

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OW amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! 2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.

5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

______________________________________________________________Psalm 84 (KJV)

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For ML In This Time Of Tribulation.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For the Repose of the Soul of ML's Mom.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For A Rapid Recovery For Our Own Yorkie.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For A Rapid Recovery For Our FRiend Uri'el2012.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Safety Of Our Gallant Troops And For The Success Of Their Vital Mission.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Repose Of The Souls Of Our Embassy Staff In Libya Who Were Assassinated 11 September 2012.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Deliverance Of Our Beloved Nation From The Lion’s Mouth.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For Our Brethren Of All Faiths Throughout The World Suffering Persecution.

We pray in particular on behalf of our brothers and sisters in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and throughout the Mideast. The members of the oldest of our Christian Communities, some of which date from the days of the Apostles, suffer under cruel, merciless and unrelenting persecution. They are Orthodox and Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical, Coptic, Pentecostal, and Baptist. To the persecutors, we are all "Nazarenes."

[etabeta]

Adding my prayers. God bless.

[NEWwoman]

Better is one day in your courts
than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

Amen, left that other site

Moby Dick! All right! ;)

Joining in prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem.

[Jeanbl]

When I was a little kid, my parents fought incessantly and their was tremendous fear from a home doused with alcoholism. I fell into a fearful depression very young, and I remember one night, longing for God, and his peace. It was in the middle of the night, I walked to the church I went to which was over a mile away, and laid on the steps, and fell asleep for a while. Then I went home. God is our refuge and our strength, and indeed this psalm touches my heart in so many personal ways. Better is one day in his courts than a thousand elsewhere’s. Thank you. God Bless. Praying for the Peace of Jerusalem.