Tuesday Morning
May 30
Prayer Arena - 🌴 Root, ✂️ Prune, 🍇 Fruit
This Summer of Prayer is not merely a chance to pray, but a chance to grow in your prayer life. You will begin to see a new 🌴 Root, ✂️ Prune, 🍇 Fruit section. Here you will find questions to consider, teaching from the elders, verses to inform your transformation, and chances to obey God in how He directing your prayer life.SWBC Shared Purpose
Pray that God would place a burden on His Church to tell others about Jesus, to preach the Gospel, and to recognize the deep significance of rejecting Him.
2 Corinthians 5:18-21: All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
🌴 Root, ✂️ Prune, 🍇 Fruit
John 16:24: Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
Psalm 8 (How Majestic Is Your Name) | Shane & Shane
Psalms
Psalm 7 (Listen)
In You Do I Take Refuge
A Shiggaion1 of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.
7:1 O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge;
save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
2 lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,
rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
3 O LORD my God, if I have done this,
if there is wrong in my hands,
4 if I have repaid my friend2 with evil
or plundered my enemy without cause,
5 let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
and let him trample my life to the ground
and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
6 Arise, O LORD, in your anger;
lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;
over it return on high.
8 The LORD judges the peoples;
judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness
and according to the integrity that is in me.
9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
and may you establish the righteous—
you who test the minds and hearts,3
O righteous God!
10 My shield is with God,
who saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous judge,
and a God who feels indignation every day.
12 If a man4 does not repent, God5 will whet his sword;
he has bent and readied his bow;
13 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
making his arrows fiery shafts.
14 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil
and is pregnant with mischief
and gives birth to lies.
15 He makes a pit, digging it out,
and falls into the hole that he has made.
16 His mischief returns upon his own head,
and on his own skull his violence descends.
17 I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness,
and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.
Footnotes
[1] 7:1
[2] 7:4
[3] 7:9
[4] 7:12
[5] 7:12
(ESV)
Psalm 8 (Listen)
How Majestic Is Your Name
To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.1 A Psalm of David.
8:1 O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings2
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
7 all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Footnotes
[1] 8:1
[2] 8:5
(ESV)