With broken hearts, we cry to the Lord. We cry for ourselves, our families, our communities, our nation, the entire world.
Remind us the power of prayer dear Lord. We pray the Word of God and think on You, as the “Joy of the Lord” is our strength.
“Our Father in heaven hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven . . . “Matthew 6:9.
I need my heart tuned. This world has brought it out of tune.
“Come, thou Fount of every blessing,
tune my heart to sing thy grace;“
streams of mercy, never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise (Come Thou Fount, Robert Robinson, 1758).
Aloud, together, with the advancement of technology, people can be completely alone, and yet with many. We pray as a community. We remind ourselves of Your powerful truths and pray aloud, “Pour out Your sufficient grace on us, as You’ve told us:
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” 2 Corinthians 12:9.
Dear Lord, can we “gladly boast in our weakness?” Not naturally. Not now. Only by the power of Your Spirit. We pray together and ask, “Pour out Your sufficient grace, “That Christ’s power may rest on (us).”
“This is my comfort in my affliction,” (Psalm 119:150), “Your word has given me life.”
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself;
that where I am, there you may be also.
And where I go you know, and the way you know”John 14:1-4.
Don’t let us forget the Way, Dear Lord.
You are “despised and rejected by men,“(Isaiah 53).
You were despised then, and You are now by many, but today, I consider You. You. Died. For me.
Is there anyone reading this today that “feels distant from God?”
Turn your face, your heart to Jesus: “He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed” Isaiah 53:5.
Dear Lord, we don’t know the meaning of patience until we look at You:
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance 2 Peter 3:9.
The Bible tells us we’ve all sinned. Sin is what condemns us. (Romans 3:23).
All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
But Lord, You told us“where I go you know, and the way you know”John 14:4.
“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” John 14:6.
Dear Lord, You’re either rejected completely because of this statement or received by it. Aloud we continue to be reminded of Your complete Word:
“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; John 14: 7-9.
He was oppressed and He was afflicted,Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,So He opened not His mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment,And who will declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken . . . Isaiah 53:7-9.
As Jesus is marked with the scars on His hands forever, we who call out to Jesus in faith to believe in Him to save us, we are marked in a way. The Holy Spirit seals us.
Have we forgotten the old hymn, “O to grace how great a debtor daily I’m constrained to be. Let Thy goodness like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it. Prone to leave the God I love.
Here’s my heart Lord, take and seal it. Seal it for Thy courts above (Come Thou Fount, Robert Robinson, 1758.
God is faithful to seal our heart with His Holy Spirit.
I do not make (you) slaves so that (you) live in fear again, rather, the Spirit (we) received brought about our adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father” Romans 8:15.
We thank You Lord, together for Your Word of comfort and truth to our broken hearts. We cry again, and again,
Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father” Galatians 4:6.
As a child, in need to be lifted up, we raise our arms to You dear Lord. We raise our arms and cry, “Abba, Father!“
Jesus, Himself, cried out to His Father,
“My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch.”
And He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for You. Take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will, but what You will.”
Then He came and found them sleeping Mark 14: 32-37.
Dear Lord, we’re not sleeping. We’re awake, and we pray Your Word. We feel Your Spirit’s comfort.
Heal the pain of loss and sickness from many dear Lord, in Jesus’ name we pray,
Amen.
(If you prayed with me, or prayed to receive Jesus in Your heart, let me know. Amen! Yes, please if you took time to open Your heart to the grace and forgiveness of Jesus today, let someone know. You are a new creation in Christ!)