A personal prayer using words adopted (and adapted) from Psalm 36.
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ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father; We have erred, and strayed from your ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts.
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A prayer for Easter Morning and for each day after, as Easter People. Join me in prayer.
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Jesus Christ a King of Glory has come in Peace.
God became man, the Word was made flesh.
Christ was born of a Virgin. Christ suffered. Christ was crucified.
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We all want justice, but few of us want to be judged.
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Followers of Jesus have the potential of - through prayer, pulling into the created world and order of things, an even greater Real - of the fullness of Life in what Jesus called God's Kingdom.
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O Trinity of Love,
you have been with us at the world’s beginning;
be with us till the world’s end.
You have been with us at our life’s shaping;
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The hymn writer William Cowper allowed that ‘God moves in a mysterous way, His wonders to perform.’ The doctrine of providence speaks of 'divinely ordained events and outcomes.’
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Watching and listening to an interview this week (see HERE) of Bono of the Irish Band U2 - and Eugene Peterson, pastor, teacher
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Read - Romans 8:18 – 27 and Isaiah 40: 27 – 31
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Life is indeed hard - and harsh. All of at times are tempted to complain. Well, actually more than tempted . . . we do whinge and whine don't we? - not that it helps.
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We want to share with others, through word and deed, in all the various ways in which the Good News of Jesus can be passed on to others.
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When I was growing up, after supper Dad would say: ‘Get the Book.’ And then we’d pray.
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Prayer is a mystery, but when we approach God, believing that He is - and that He rewards those who diligently seek Him, God hears and answers.
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The origin of the word for ‘blessing’ in the ancient Semitic (including Hebrew), was in the root b-r-k.
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I suppose there are some obvious ways of hiding God's Word within our hearts, as did the Psalmist. I would think it has to do with:
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Actiones nostras, quaesumus Domine, aspirando praeveni et adiuvando prosequere: ut cuncta nosta oratio et operatio a te semper incipiat et per ta coepta finiatur.
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OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME.
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How is this new clan and community - called the Church, to be part of God's answer, in Christ? Here's the response of St. Paul in his letter to the Ephesian Church:
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Sometimes you just don't know what to do next, which way to turn.
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Prayer is talking to God, with God, connecting.
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The path I walk, Christ walks it.
May the land in which I am be without sorrow.
May the Trinity protect me wherever I stay, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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