Wednesday Evening
May 31
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.🌴 Root, ✂️ Prune, 🍇 Fruit
Matthew 7:9-11: Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Common Prayers
Shepherd through the Night
with those who wake,
or watch or weep tonight,
and give your angels charge
over those who sleep.
Tend your sick ones,
O Lord Jesus Christ;
rest your weary ones;
bless your dying ones;
soothe your suffering ones;
pity your afflicted ones;
shield your joyous ones;
and all for your love's sake.
Amen.
—St. Augustine
Psalms
Psalm 12 (Listen)
The Faithful Have Vanished
To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith.1 A Psalm of David.
12:1 Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone;
for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.
2 Everyone utters lies to his neighbor;
with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
3 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips,
the tongue that makes great boasts,
4 those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,
our lips are with us; who is master over us?”
5 “Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan,
I will now arise,” says the LORD;
“I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
6 The words of the LORD are pure words,
like silver refined in a furnace on the ground,
purified seven times.
7 You, O LORD, will keep them;
you will guard us2 from this generation forever.
8 On every side the wicked prowl,
as vileness is exalted among the children of man.
(ESV)