Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Aug 4 - Vignettes on Prayer
Aug 4 - Vignettes on Prayer
This next prayer is one of my favorites. David has committed sin with Bathsheba and he was found out. Listen to the sincerity of his heart and the cry he makes before God. Psalm 51:1-7, “Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge. 5 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. 6 Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;
you taught me wisdom in that secret place. 7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. I know I have felt like David many times and have prayed this prayer. It is clear, concise and precise. The cry of a person who truly wants God to restore them.
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Aug 3 - Vignettes on Prayer
Aug 3 - Vignettes on Prayer
This is the first of five vignettes we will do on prayers within the Bible. These you could pray to the Lord as if you were yourself praying. “Psalm 43, “1 Vindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation. Rescue me from those who are deceitful and wicked. 2 You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?
3 Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain,
to the place where you dwell. 4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God. 5 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.” Listen to David heart. Younggi Cho, pastor of the largest church in the world says this is the prayer he prays when he feels overwhelmed. A good prayer for you to pray when you feel the same way.
Saturday, July 31, 2021
July 31 - Vignettes on Prayer
July 31 - Vignettes on Prayer
The Lord has
left how we pray and the postures of prayer to us. The time and place of our prayers is entirely
in our control. There is no set way to
pray or method. One thing that is absolutely
necessary is a place that is both quiet and private where we can be alone and
undisturbed. Jesus in Matt 6:5-6 points
this out. In fact, Jesus often went off
by Himself into the desert or the mountains to pray. Let Jesus be our example. In the biggest decision of his life, we find
Him in a garden alone praying. Prayer is
the time and place where we hear from God.
Remember when Elijah was on Mount Sinai he did not hear God in the wind,
rain or earthquake. He heard him in the
still small voice. You cannot hear God
when all the noise of the world is blaring Him out. You can only when you are silent and ready to
hear.
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