Tag: Prayer
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Morning Reflection 3/06/12 – Psalm 17
Psalm 17 Prayer for Deliverance from Persecutors A Prayer of David. 1 Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry; give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit. 2 From you let my vindication come; let your eyes see the right. 3 If you try my heart, if you visit me…
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Churches comfort after Ohio school tragedy – UMC.org
Words cannot express the sadness of this situation. Even though we live in a culture, that many times, has little need of the church, there are somethings that drive us back to God. Lord, we do need you. We need you now more than ever before. Here’s an article from UMC.org telling how some United…
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Morning Reflection 2/21/12 – Psalm 7
http://biblia.com/bible/nrsv/Ps7 Plea for Help against Persecutors A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjaminite. 1 O Lord my God, in you I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me, 2 or like a lion they will tear me apart; they will drag me away, with…
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A Prayer of St. Francis
Here’s a prayer from St. Francis of Assisi. I hope one day to truly pray this from my heart: Almighty, eternal, just, and merciful God, grant us in our misery [the grace] to do for You alone what we know You want us to do, and always to desire what pleases You.
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Review: Answering God
Over the past few months I’ve been reading through the Psalms and Proverbs each day. As I’ve read, I’ve become more interested in the book of Psalms. I picked a used copy book up by Eugene H. Peterson hoping it would give me some insight into the Psalms. What it did was give me desire…