Psalm
89 Prayed
Praising God and praying for revival
Praising the Father and
the Son
I will sing of your great love
forever, O Lord and Father;
with
my mouth I will make your faithfulness
known through
all generations.
I will declare that your love
stands firm forever,
that
you established your faithfulness in heaven
itself.
You said, “I have made a
covenant with my chosen one,
I
have sworn to David my servant,
‘I will establish your line
forever
and
make your throne firm through all
generations.’”
This is the gospel which you
promised beforehand
through
your prophets in the Holy
Scriptures regarding
your Son,
who as to his earthly life was
a descendant of
David,
and who through the Spirit of holiness
was appointed the Son of God in
power
by
his resurrection from the dead:
Jesus
Christ our Lord.
The heavens praise your
wonders, O Lord and Father,
your
faithfulness too, in the assembly of the
holy
ones.
For who in the skies above can
compare with the
Lord
Jesus?
Who
is like the Lord Jesus among the heavenly
beings?
For the Son is the radiance of your
glory, O God,
and
the exact representation of your being,
sustaining
all things by his powerful word.
After he had provided
purification for sins,
he
sat down at your right hand, O Majesty in
heaven.
So he became as much superior
to the angels
as
the name he has inherited is superior to
theirs.
For to which of your angels did
you ever say,
“You are my Son; today I have become
your
Father’”?
In the council of the holy ones
you are greatly
feared;
you
are more awesome than all who surround
the
Lord Jesus.
O Lord God Almighty, who is
like you?
Who
is a Trinity like you?
You
are mighty, O Lord, and your faithfulness
surrounds
you.
The power and authority of
Jesus
When a furious squall came up,
and
the waves broke over the boat,
it
was nearly swamped.
Yet you were in the stern,
sleeping on a cushion.
Your
disciples woke you and said to you,
“Teacher,
don’t you care if we drown?”
You got up, rebuked the wind
and said to the
waves,
“Quiet!
Be still!”
Then
the wind died down
and
it was completely calm.
For you rule over the surging
sea;
when
its waves mount up, you still them.
Lord Jesus, was it not you who
cut Rahab to
pieces,
who
pierced that monster through?
You crushed Rahab like
one of the slain;
with
your strong arm you scattered your
spiritual
enemies.
For the reason that you
appeared
was
to destroy the devil’s work.
And having disarmed the powers
and authorities,
you
made a public spectacle of them,
triumphing
over them by the cross.
The heavens are yours, and
yours also the earth;
you
founded the world and all that is in it.
God the Father made the universe through you,
and
by you all things were created:
Things in heaven and on earth,
visible
and invisible,
whether thrones or powers or
rulers or authorities;
all
things were created by you and for you.
You are before all things,
and
in you all things hold together.
You created the north and the
south;
All
the mountains sing for joy at your name.
Your arm is endued with
power;
your
hand is strong, your right hand exalted.
Righteousness and justice are
the foundation of
your
throne;
love
and faithfulness go before you.
Blessed are those who have
learned to acclaim you,
who
walk in the light of your presence, O
Lord
Jesus.
They rejoice in your name
all day long;
they
exult in your righteousness.
For you are their glory and
strength,
and
by your favour you exalt our horn.
Indeed, our shield
belongs to the Lord Jesus, our
king,
to
the Holy One of Israel.
The Father’s declaration
about Jesus his Messiah
O Father God, once you spoke in
a vision,
to
your faithful people you said:
“This is my Son, whom I love;
with
him I am well pleased.
Listen
to him!
I have bestowed strength
on a warrior;
I
have exalted a young man from among the people.
I have found Jesus my
servant, the son of David;
with
my sacred oil I have anointed him as the
Messiah.
My hand has sustained him;
surely
my arm has strengthened him.
No enemy subjects him to
tribute;
no
wicked man oppresses him.
I have crushed his spiritual
foes before him
and
struck down his adversaries.
My faithful love is with him,
and
through my name his horn is exalted.
I have set his hand over the
sea,
his
right hand over the rivers.
He called out to me, ‘You are
my Father,
my
God, the Rock my Saviour.’
I have also appointed him my
firstborn,
the
most exalted of the kings of the earth.
He is the image of me, the
invisible God,
the
firstborn over all creation.
And I have made him the head of
the body, the
Church;
Jesus is the beginning and the
firstborn
from among the dead,
so
that in everything he might have the
supremacy.
For it pleased me to have all
my fullness dwell in
him,
and through him to reconcile to myself
all things,
whether
things on earth or things in heaven,
by making peace through his
blood,
shed
on the cross.
I will maintain my love to him
forever,
and
my covenant with him will never fail.
For he is the Mediator of the
new covenant,
by
means of his death,
for the redemption of the
transgressions
under the first covenant,
that those who I called
may
receive the promise of the eternal
inheritance.
By calling this covenant “new”
I
have made the first one obsolete.
And the priestly ministry Jesus
received from me
is
superior to old covenant priest’s ministry
as the covenant of which he mediator
is
superior to the old one,
and
it is founded on better promises.
I will establish his line
forever,
his
throne as long as the heavens endure.
“If Jesus’ children forsake my
law
and
do not follow my statutes,
if they violate my decrees
and
fail to keep my commands,
I will punish their sin with
the rod,
their
iniquity with flogging;
they will have to endure
hardship as discipline,
for
I will be treating them as my children,
but I will not take my love
from him,
nor
will I ever betray my faithfulness.
I will not violate my covenant
or
alter what my lips have uttered.
Once for all, I have sworn by
my holiness—
and
I will not lie to Jesus—
that his line will continue
forever
and
his throne endure before me like the sun;
it will be established forever
like the moon,
the
faithful witness in the sky.”
Calling on God to revive
his Church
Have rejected, you have
spurned,
have
been very angry with your Messiah?
Have you renounced the covenant
with your
servant
and
have you defiled his crown in the dust?
For the name of Jesus is no
longer regarded as holy
in
our land.
It
has become a swear word,
a
word to curse, and not to bless.
You have broken through all the
walls of his
Church
and
reduced our strongholds to ruins.
All who pass by have plundered us;
we
have become the scorn of our neighbours.
You have exalted the right hand
of our foes;
you
have made all our spiritual enemies
rejoice.
You have turned back the edge
of our sword;
the
Word of God no longer has its power
and
you have not supported us in battle.
You have put an end to Christ’s
splendour
and
cast his throne to the ground.
You have cut short the days of
his youth;
you
have covered his name with a mantle of
shame.
How long, O Father God? Will
you hide yourself
forever?
How
long will your wrath burn like fire?
Remember how fleeting are our
lives.
For
what futility you have created all
humanity!
Who can live and not see death,
or
who can escape the power of the grave?
O Lord, where is your former
great love,
which
in your faithfulness you swore to Jesus?
Remember, Lord, how your
servant Jesus is being
mocked,
how
we bear in our hearts the taunts of all the
nations,
the taunts with which your
enemies, Lord, are
mocking,
with
which they have mocked every step of
your
Messiah.
Revive your Church once more.
Let
your life-giving Word go forth with power.
Praise be to the Lord forever!
Amen
and Amen.
Amen
and Amen.
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Psalm 89 Prayed
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