Psalm
105 Prayed
Rejoicing in our inherited promises
Thanking God for the promise given to Abraham
We give thanks to you O Lord, we
call on your
name;
We
want to make known among the nations
what
you have done.
We sing to you, we sing praise to you;
we
will tell of all your wonderful acts.
We glory in your holy name.
Let
the hearts of those who seek you rejoice,
O
Lord.
For we look to you and your
strength;
we
seek your face always.
We remember the wonders you
have done, O Lord,
your
miracles, and the judgments you
pronounced.
For we are descendants of
Abraham
your servant:
Since
we belong to Christ,
we are Abraham’s seed,
and
heirs according to the promise.
We are children of Jacob,
your
chosen ones,
chosen in Christ before the
creation of the world,
to
be holy and blameless in your sight.
You are the Lord our God;
your
judgments are in all the earth.
You remember your covenant
forever,
the
word you commanded, for a thousand
generations,
the covenant you made with
Abraham,
the
oath you swore to Isaac.
You confirmed it to Jacob as a
decree,
to
Israel as an everlasting covenant:
“To you I will give the land of
Canaan
as
the portion you will inherit.”
And as Abraham's offspring
we Gentiles have received the promise
that we would become heirs of the world
through the righteousness that comes by faith.
For the Scripture also foresaw that
God would
justify
us, the Gentiles, by faith,
and
announced the gospel in advance to
Abraham:
“All
nations will be blessed through you.”
So
those of us who have faith are blessed
along
with Abraham, the man of faith.
When Israel were but few in
number,
few
indeed, and strangers in it,
they wandered from nation to
nation,
from
one kingdom to another.
But you, O Lord, allowed no one
to oppress
them;
for
their sake you rebuked kings:
“Do not touch my anointed ones;
do
my prophets no harm.”
You called down famine on the
land
and
destroyed all their supplies of food;
and you sent a man before
them—
Joseph,
sold as a slave.
They bruised his feet with
shackles,
his
neck was put in irons,
till what he foretold came to
pass,
till
the word of the Lord proved him true.
The king sent and released him,
the
ruler of peoples set him free.
He made him master of his
household,
ruler
over all he possessed,
to instruct his princes as he
pleased
and
teach his elders wisdom.
Then Israel entered Egypt;
Jacob
lived as an alien in the land of Ham.
You made your people very
fruitful O Lord;
you
made them too numerous for their foes,
whose hearts you turned to hate
your people,
to
conspire against your servants.
You sent Moses your servant,
and
Aaron, whom you had chosen.
They performed your miraculous
signs among
them,
your
wonders in the land of Ham.
You sent darkness and made the
land dark—
for
had they not rebelled against your words?
You turned their waters into
blood,
causing
their fish to die.
Their land teemed with frogs,
which
went up into the bedrooms of their
rulers.
You spoke, and there came
swarms of flies,
and
gnats throughout their country.
You turned their rain into
hail,
with
lightning throughout their land;
you struck down their vines and
fig trees
and
shattered the trees of their country.
You spoke, and the locusts
came,
grasshoppers
without number;
they ate up every green thing
in their land,
ate
up the produce of their soil.
Then you struck down all the
firstborn in their
land,
the
first fruits of all their manhood.
Thanking God for the promises we now share with Israel
You brought out Israel, laden
with silver and gold,
and
from among their tribes no one faltered.
Egypt was glad when they left,
because
dread of Israel had fallen on them.
You spread out a cloud as a
covering,
and
a fire to give light at night.
They asked, and you brought
them quail
and
satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
You opened the rock, and water
gushed out;
like
a river it flowed in the desert.
They were all under the cloud
and
they all passed through the sea.
They
were all baptised into Moses
in
the cloud and in the sea.
They
all ate the same spiritual food
and drank the same spiritual drink;
for they drank from the
spiritual rock that
accompanied
them,
and
that rock was Christ.
You remembered your holy
promise
given
to your servant Abraham,
and you redeemed us in order that the
blessing
given
to Abraham
might
come to us, the Gentiles,
through
Christ Jesus,
so that by faith
we
might receive the promise of the Spirit.
You brought out all your people
with rejoicing,
your
chosen ones with shouts of joy;
Now give us the lands of the
nations,
that
we might fall heir to what others have
toiled
for—
that we might keep your
precepts
and
observe your laws.
For by this we know that we love your children,
when we love you and keep your commandments.
For this is our love for you, and your love for us,
that we keep your commandments.
and your commandments are not burdensome.
For through the gospel the
Gentiles are heirs
together
with Israel,
members
together of one body,
and
sharers together in the promise in Christ
Jesus.
Since all authority in heaven
and on earth
has
been given to him,
help us to go and make
disciples of all nations,
baptizing
them in the name of the Father
and
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
and teaching them to obey
everything
he
has commanded us.
45b Praise the LORD.
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Psalm 105 Prayed
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