Oh LORD GOD . . . You are the same yesterday, today and forever. And Your Mercy endures forever. Your patience is longsuffering, and Your kindness extends from generation to generation. Your Glory fills heaven and earth. Dear LORD, as we read in Psalm 4:6a: “There are many that say, who will show us any good?” Somehow, Dear LORD, we have strayed, even Your church, from the ULTIMATE GOOD of all time. THE GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPEL. Dear LORD, revive our hearts. Continue in us the blessed hope found in Psalm 4:6b: “Let the light of your presence shine on us, O LORD.” . . . for You made Your Light shine in our hearts to give us the Light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. LORD, help us to not get so consumed with what the “WORLD” can do for us, financially, medically, physically, that it would somehow lessen our resolve to the GOSPEL and our trust and hope in it. We exclaim, we pray, we stand firm on this: “I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek. For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” . . . And we are being protected by God's power through faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. (Romans 1:16-17; 1 Peter 1:5)
ALMIGHTY GOD, Your Word teaches: The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness . . . For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools . . . since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them. (Rom. 1:18-32)
FATHER, and that is what some of us were. But we were washed, we were sanctified, we were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:11) So there is hope for those outside of the GOSPEL. For we too were dead in our trespasses and sins, in which we used to walk when we conformed to the ways of the world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience. . . Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath. . . BUT GOD, who is rich in MERCY, even when we were dead in our trespasses and sins made us alive with Christ. Thank you FATHER for your great MERCY.
FATHER, let us take heed, let us contend for the faith, let us listen to the exhortation of Jude: Dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. BE MERCIFUL TO THOSE WHO DOUBT; SAVE OTHERS BY SNATCHING THEM FROM THE FIRE; TO OTHERS SHOW MERCY, MIXED WITH FEAR—HATING EVEN THE CLOTHING STAINED BY CORRUPTED FLESH.
To HIM who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before HIS glorious presence without fault and with great joy— to the only God our Savior be Glory, Majesty, Power and Authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.
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AMEN!
Amen to Every Word of your Beautiful, Powerful Prayer, Dear Servant of Jesus Christ.
Praying with you in Heartfelt Agreement.