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Psalm
144 Prayed
Praying for enemies to the gospel
Praise be to you, Jesus, my
Rock,
you
train my hands for war,
my
fingers for battle.
Help me to endure hardship
like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
I want to please you,
my commanding officer.
You are my loving God and my
fortress,
my
stronghold and my deliverer,
my shield, in whom I take
refuge,
you
subdue peoples under me.
You ride out to battle on a
white horse!
You
hold a bow,
and you have been given a
crown,
and
you ride out as a conqueror bent on
conquest.
So help me follow you in purity,
understanding,
in
patience and kindness;
in the Holy Spirit and in
sincere love;
in
truthful speech and in the power of God;
with weapons of righteousness
in
the right hand and in the left.
O Jesus, who are we that you should
care for us,
mere
mortals that you think of us?
We are like a breath;
our
days are like a fleeting shadow.
But you have demonstrated your
own love for us in
this:
while
we were still sinners, you died for us.
Part your heavens, O Jesus, and
come down;
touch
the mountains, so that they smoke.
Send forth lightning and
scatter the enemies of the
gospel;
shoot
your arrows and rout them.
Let the angels rejoice and cry
out:
“Look, he is coming with the clouds,
and
every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him;
and
all the peoples of the earth will mourn
because
of him.
So
shall it be! Amen.”
Reach down your hand from on
high;
deliver
me and rescue me
from the mighty waters,
from
the hands of foreigners to your grace
whose mouths are full of lies,
whose
right hands are deceitful.
Have mercy on them for they
separate from you, O Christ,
excluded
from citizenship in Israel
and foreigners to the
covenants of the promise,
without
hope and without God in the world.
Then I will sing a new song to
you, O God;
on
the six-stringed guitar I will make music to
you,
to the One who gives victory to
kings,
who
delivered his servant King David from the
deadly
sword.
Deliver me and rescue me
from
the hands of foreigners to your mercy
whose mouths are full of lies,
whose
right hands are deceitful.
O Christ Jesus, let those who
are far away
be
brought near through your blood.
For you yourself are our peace,
only
you can made the two one
and only you can destroyed the
barrier,
the
dividing wall of hostility.
Only you can reconcile them to God
through the
cross,
by
which you can put to death their hostility.
You
came and preached peace
to us who were faraway
now
come to preach peace
to them and bring them
near.
For it is only through you that
we
both can have access to the Father by
one
Spirit.
Consequently, let them no
longer be foreigners and
aliens,
but
fellow citizens with God’s people
and
members of God’s household,
built
on the foundation of the whole Bible,
with
you, Christ Jesus, as the chief cornerstone.
Let the whole building be
joined together
and
rise to become a holy temple in the Lord.
Let us all be built together to
become a dwelling
in
which you live by your Holy Spirit.
Then our sons in their youth
will
be like well-nurtured plants,
and our daughters will be like
pillars
carved
to adorn a palace.
Our barns will be filled
with
every kind of provision.
Our sheep will increase by
thousands,
by
tens of thousands in our fields;
our
oxen will draw heavy loads.
There will be no breaching of
walls,
no
going into captivity,
no
cry of distress in our streets.
Blessed are the people of whom
this is true;
blessed
are the people whose God is the HolyTrinity.
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Psalm 144 Prayed
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