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Psalm 30 Prayed
Praising
God for the Gospel
I will exalt you, O Lord, my
Heavenly Father,
for
you lifted Jesus out of the depths
and
did not let his enemies gloat over him.
O Lord my God, Jesus called to
you for help
and
you healed him.
O Lord, you brought him up from
the grave;
you
spared him from going down into the pit.
They killed him by hanging him
on a tree,
but
you, O God, raised him from the dead
on
the third day,
and caused him to be seen.
He was not seen by all the
people,
but
by witnesses whom you had
already
chosen—
by the apostles who ate and
drank with him
after
he rose from the dead.
Like the rest,
I
was by nature an object of wrath.
But because of your great love
for me,
O
God who is rich in mercy,
you made me alive with Christ
even
when I was dead in transgressions—
it
is by grace I have been saved.
You raised me up with Christ
and
seated me with him
in
the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
in order that in the coming
ages you might show
the
incomparable riches of your grace,
expressed
in your kindness to me
in
Christ Jesus.
For it is by grace you saved
me, through faith—
and
this not from myself,
it is your free gift, O God—
not
by works, so that I can never boast.
Sing to the Lord, you saints of
his;
praise
his holy name.
For his anger lasts only a
moment,
but
his favour lasts eternally;
weeping may remain for a night,
but
rejoicing comes in the morning.
When I felt secure in your
love, I said,
“I
will never be shaken.”
O Lord, when you favoured me,
you
made my mountain stand firm;
but when you hid your face,
I
was dismayed.
To you, O Heavenly Father, I
called;
to
the Lord I cried for mercy:
“What gain is there in my
destruction,
in
my going down into the pit?
Will the dust praise you?
Will
it proclaim your faithfulness?
Hear, O Lord, and be merciful
to me;
O
Father, be my help.
Help me to consider everything
a loss
compared
to the surpassing greatness
of
knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,
for whose sake I may I be
willing
to
loose all things.
May I consider them rubbish,
that
I may gain Christ and be found in him,
not
having a righteousness of my own
that
comes from the law,
but
that which is through faith in Christ—
the righteousness that comes
from you, O God
and
is by faith.
I want to know Christ and the power
of
his resurrection
and the fellowship of sharing
in his sufferings,
becoming
like him in his death,
and
so attain to the resurrection from the dead.
By the gospel, you turned my
wailing into dancing;
you
removed my sackcloth
and
clothed me with joy,
that my heart may sing to you
and
not be silent.
O Lord my God; Father, Son and
Holy Spirit,
I
will give you thanks forever.
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Psalm 30 Prayed
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