Showing posts with label Prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prayer. Show all posts
Friday, February 22, 2013
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Confession
I was thinking this morning, when I choose to sin, I choose the
pleasures of sin over the pleasures of Christ, my Beloved. How
devastating! Oh God! Bring me into the depths of your Gospel, so that my
heart will hate sin.
God speaks
God speaks. He is not an idol who is mute. We are the ones who have ears, but cannot hear.
If you want to hear God's voice you must love and pursue true, sound, and deep doctrine. Hearing God's voice requires dying to ones self and trusting God's Word, the scriptures. Growing in love and growing in knowing another, requires pursuing who they are. If you say you want to hear God's voice, but do not pursue the scriptures diligently as a treasure and as a delight, you are wanting you own ends, not His voice. May we spur one another, sharing with one another the word of Christ.
His own, He loved. And He loved us first. And in this truth we can love Him. It is the Gospel that allows us to have peace with God. And it is the power of Christ's work that enables and performs righteousness.
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
(Romans 12:1-2 ESV)
If you want to hear God's voice you must love and pursue true, sound, and deep doctrine. Hearing God's voice requires dying to ones self and trusting God's Word, the scriptures. Growing in love and growing in knowing another, requires pursuing who they are. If you say you want to hear God's voice, but do not pursue the scriptures diligently as a treasure and as a delight, you are wanting you own ends, not His voice. May we spur one another, sharing with one another the word of Christ.
His own, He loved. And He loved us first. And in this truth we can love Him. It is the Gospel that allows us to have peace with God. And it is the power of Christ's work that enables and performs righteousness.
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
(Romans 12:1-2 ESV)
Friday, November 13, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Prayer for work
"A prayer to be said before doing one's work" by John Calvin
Our good God, Father and Savior, since You have pleased to command us to work to meet our needs, by Your grace may You so bless our labor that Your benediction may extend to us: without it we cannot continue to live. And may Your favor serve us as a witness of Your goodness and presence, that by it we may recognize the fatherly care You have for us. Moreover, O Lord, please grant us aid by Your Holy Spirit, so that we may faithfully work in our place and vocation, without any fraud or deception; may we pay attention to following Your ordinance rather than satisfying our own lust for gain. And if it please You to prosper our labor, may You also give us the heart to support those who are in need according to the ability You have given us - but always without our wishing to set ourselves above those who have not received such generosity from You. And where You choose to give us greater poverty and lack than our flesh would like, You, O Lord, grant us the grace to acknowledge that You always feed us by Your goodness, so that we may not be tempted to defy You. But may we wait with patience for You to fill us not only with Your temporal graces but also with spiritual ones, so that we may always have greater reason and occasion to thank you and to repose entirely on your goodness alone. Hear us, most merciful Father, by Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord. Amen.
Our good God, Father and Savior, since You have pleased to command us to work to meet our needs, by Your grace may You so bless our labor that Your benediction may extend to us: without it we cannot continue to live. And may Your favor serve us as a witness of Your goodness and presence, that by it we may recognize the fatherly care You have for us. Moreover, O Lord, please grant us aid by Your Holy Spirit, so that we may faithfully work in our place and vocation, without any fraud or deception; may we pay attention to following Your ordinance rather than satisfying our own lust for gain. And if it please You to prosper our labor, may You also give us the heart to support those who are in need according to the ability You have given us - but always without our wishing to set ourselves above those who have not received such generosity from You. And where You choose to give us greater poverty and lack than our flesh would like, You, O Lord, grant us the grace to acknowledge that You always feed us by Your goodness, so that we may not be tempted to defy You. But may we wait with patience for You to fill us not only with Your temporal graces but also with spiritual ones, so that we may always have greater reason and occasion to thank you and to repose entirely on your goodness alone. Hear us, most merciful Father, by Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord. Amen.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Wrestling with God
Sometimes hearing the Lord, comes from wrestling with the Lord as Jacob did. We know that He is our only hope. He alone has the answer. And so we wrestle with God, knowing we have no other place to go, until He gives us His blessing. We don't wrestle because it weakens God, it weakens us. We wrestle because we have faith in who He is.
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