Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem

 Our Father in Heaven,
Our Father in Heaven,
 Magnified and Sanctified is Your Most Holy Name!
 For You Alone Are Worthy,
 You Alone Are LORD,
 You Alone Are The One True God of Abraham!
 We Come into Your Presence With Singing
 and Into Your Courts With Praise,
 For Your Are Eternal,
 Omnipotent, and Righteous,
 Our Creator,
 and The Creator of All That Is!

Let all that has been Concealed
Be Revealed.

Father, We Pray For The Peace Of Jerusalem,
According To Your Will and Promise.
We Pray That You Will Forgive The Sins of Our Own Nation,
and Lead us all to Godly Repentance
Create in Us Clean Hearts, Oh LORD,
and Renew a Right Spirit Within Us.

This we Pray Together,
As We Await Your Messiah,
Blessed Be He,
To Set Up His Kingdom,
And Make All Things Right.

God Bless America.

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Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem

Personalities

Psalm 38[a]

A psalm of David. A petition.

1 Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger
     or discipline me in your wrath.

2 Your arrows have pierced me,
     and your hand has come down on me.

3 Because of your wrath there is no health in my body;
     there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.

4 My guilt has overwhelmed me
     like a burden too heavy to bear.

5 My wounds fester and are loathsome
     because of my sinful folly.

6 I am bowed down and brought very low;
     all day long I go about mourning.

7 My back is filled with searing pain;
     there is no health in my body.

8 I am feeble and utterly crushed;
     I groan in anguish of heart.

9 All my longings lie open before you, Lord;
     my sighing is not hidden from you.

10 My heart pounds, my strength fails me;
     even the light has gone from my eyes.

11 My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;
     my neighbors stay far away.

12 Those who want to kill me set their traps,
     those who would harm me talk of my ruin;
     all day long they scheme and lie.

13 I am like the deaf, who cannot hear,
     like the mute, who cannot speak;

14 I have become like one who does not hear,
     whose mouth can offer no reply.

15 Lord, I wait for you;
     you will answer, Lord my God.

16 For I said, “Do not let them gloat
     or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.”

17 For I am about to fall,
     and my pain is ever with me.

18 I confess my iniquity;
     I am troubled by my sin.

19 Many have become my enemies without cause[b];
     those who hate me without reason are numerous.

20 Those who repay my good with evil
     lodge accusations against me,
     though I seek only to do what is good.

21 Lord, do not forsake me;
     do not be far from me, my God.

22 Come quickly to help me,
     my Lord and my Savior.

Footnotes:

* Psalm 38:1 In Hebrew texts 38:1-22 is numbered 38:2-23.
Psalm 38:19 One Dead Sea Scrolls manuscript; Masoretic Text my vigorous enemies

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There are different kinds of Psalms, for different occasions, emotions, and circumstances. As we take this long look at David's Personality, we can see that his life had several stages. Sometimes they were times of Triumph, but, more often than not, David was in the midst of some kind of struggle.

He struggled with his brothers, with his king, with his enemies, with his friends, with his family, and with his own own relationship with God. He was at times heroic, loving, and self-controlled, but at other times acted like a total jerk. He could be indecisive, emotional, histrionic, and duplicitous.

He knew the Ten Commandments, but was quite capable of breaking ALL of them. This is from five years ago when we went through the Book of Psalms together:

Often, a crime is bad, but the cover-up is worse. This is not just a 21st-Century Phenomenon. The Story of David and Bathsheba shows us that Crime and Cover-Up have been around for at least 3500 years.

David's biggest crime, at first, was Covetousness. He saw Bathsheba and desired her. Check off Commandment #10.

Then he ordered Bathsheba brought to him and took her for himself. She was married to one of his favorite generals, Uriah. That's called Adultery. Check off Commandment #7.

Bathsheba becomes pregnant, so David calls Uriah back from the front and tries to get him to sleep with his own wife to cover up the sin of Adultery. That's Lying. Check off Commandment #9, the one about bearing False Witness. It's also Stealing, as David STOLE a man's wife. So, while you are at it, check off Commandment #8.

Uriah is such a noble guy that he refuses to enjoy his wife while the rest of his men are still at the Front, so David has to find a new way to cover up his crime. So he sends Uriah on a suicide mission and orders his superiors to stand down and not assist him. That's called Murder. Check off Commandment #6.

That leaves the First Five Commandments, but Jesus said that if you break one, you have broken them all. Certainly this behavior does not honor one's Parents who raised us(Commandment #5), nor does it honor the Almighty God Who made us (Commandment s #1-4). Indeed, this whole chain of sorry events began with #10, which seems the most innocuous. Covetousness got the ball rolling, and now David was in a deep pit of sin.

Today's Psalm is not the pivotal Psalm (Psalm 51) of repentance that David composed after the Bathsheba Affair. It is, however, one of the Penitential Psalms. David's heart cries out to God, recognizing that his sins are like a disease. He trusts completely in God's forgiveness and comfort in times of distress.

Human Nature doesn't change, but neither does God. He is the same Yesterday, Today, and Forever. His grace is Sufficient!

Still, we read in Scripture that David "was a man after God's own Heart". . What on earth could that mean? From the Psalms, we can see that no matter what David was up to, he never lost sight of his dependence upon God. Even in his darkest hours, he knew that God was his Shepherd, His Rock, His Fortress, His Hiding Place, and His Redeemer.

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

For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. (Mark 4:22)

God Bless America.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

Hallelujah and Amen

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Amen. Thank you.

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem

Thank You, Hiskid, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. (Mark 4:22)

God Bless America.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

Hallelujah and Amen

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Come Quickly to Help Me!
David had it All...
But Then...
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Prayers for Jerusalem.
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Maranatha!

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