Psalm
85 Prayed
Renewing my commitment to the gospel
You showed favour to your
people, O Lord Jesus;
you
restored the fortunes of the Church.
You forgave the iniquity of
your people
and
covered all their sins.
You Father set aside all
his wrath
and
turned from his fierce anger.
For on the cross God the Father
presented you as a
sacrifice
of atonement,
through
faith in your blood.
He did this to demonstrate his
justice,
because
in his forbearance
he
had left the sins committed beforehand
unpunished—
he did it to demonstrate his
justice at the
present
time, so as to be just
and the one who justifies
those who have faith in you.
Restore me again, O Jesus me Saviour,
and
put away your displeasure toward me.
Will you be angry with me
forever?
Will
you prolong your anger through all
generations?
Will you not revive me again,
that
your people may rejoice in you?
Show me your unfailing love, O
Lord Jesus,
and
grant me your salvation.
I will listen to what you say,
my God and Lord,
for
you promise peace to me, your saint—
so
do not let me return to the folly of
disbelieving
you, O Lord.
Surely your salvation is near
those who fear you,
that
your glory may dwell in our land.
Lord Jesus Christ, you are the
faithful witness,
the
firstborn from the dead,
the
ruler of the kings of the earth.
You love me and have freed me
from my sins,
by
your blood.
In you, love and faithfulness
meet together;
righteousness
and peace kiss each other.
For what the law was powerless
to do
in
that it was weakened by my sinful nature,
God did by sending you, his own
Son,
in
the likeness of a sinful human being
to
be a sin offering on my behalf.
And so he condemned sin in
sinful humanity,
in
order that the righteous requirements of the
law
might
be fully met in me,
so I would not live according
to the sinful nature
but
according to the Spirit.
Therefore, there is now no
condemnation for me,
for
I am in you, Christ Jesus,
because through you the law of
the Spirit of life
set
me free from the law of sin and death.
And since I have been justified
through faith,
I
have peace with God through you.
So let faithfulness spring
forth from the earth,
and
righteousness look down from heaven.
Indeed O Lord Jesus, give us
what is good,
and
our land will yield its harvest.
Cultivate the hearts of the
people of this land
to hear your Word, O Lord,
for
they who receive the seed that falls on good
soil
are
those who hear the Word and understand it.
Let our nation produce a crop,
yielding
a hundred, sixty or thirty times what
was
sown.
Let righteousness go before
you,
the
righteousness from God
that
comes through faith in you.
Let it
prepare the way for your steps,
for
all who claim to live in you,
must
walk as you did.
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Psalm 85 Prayed
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