Praise for Salvation Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you. I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans ?of old?, in faithfulness, trustworthiness. 2 For you have ?made? the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin, the palace of foreigners ?is no longer? a city; it will ?never? be rebuilt…
+ DAILY PRAYER +
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my pleas for mercy!
In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!
Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan,
and he hears my voice.
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you;
He will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 111:1-6, 10
Psa 111:1 Praise the LORD!
I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart,
in the company of the upright, in the congregation.
Psa 111:2 Great are the works of the LORD,
studied by all who delight in them.
Psa 111:3 Full of splendor and majesty is his work,
and his righteousness endures forever.
Psa 111:4 He has caused his wondrous works to be remembered;
the LORD is gracious and merciful.
Psa 111:5 He provides food for those who fear him;
he remembers his covenant forever.
Psa 111:6 He has shown his people the power of his works,
in giving them the inheritance of the nations.
Reading for Wednesday December 31st Isaiah 25
Praise for Salvation
25 Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you.
I will praise your name,
for you have done wonderful things,
plans ?of old?, in faithfulness, trustworthiness.
2 For you have ?made? the city a heap,
the fortified city a ruin,
the palace of foreigners ?is no longer? a city;
it will ?never? be rebuilt.
3 Therefore strong peoples will glorify you;
a city of ruthless nations, they will fear you.
4 For you have been a refuge to the poor,
a refuge to the needy in his distress,
a shelter from the rainstorm,
a shade from the heat.
For the breath of the ruthless was like a rainstorm against a wall,
5 the noise of foreigners like heat in a dry land.
You subdued the heat with the shade of a cloud;
the song of the ruthless was silenced.
6 And on this mountain Yahweh of hosts will make for all peoples a ?rich feast?,
a feast of aged wines, fat filled with marrow, filtered aged wine.
7 And on this mountain he will ?destroy? the face of the shroud,
the shroud over all peoples,
and the woven covering over all nations.
8 He will ?destroy? death forever,
and the Lord Yahweh will wipe off the tears from all faces,
and he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth,
for Yahweh has spoken.
9 And one will say, on that day,
“Look! This is our God! We have waited for him and he saved us!
This is Yahweh; we waited for him!
Let us be glad,
and let us rejoice in his salvation.”
10 For the hand of Yahweh will rest on this mountain,
and Moab shall be trampled down under him
as ?a heap of straw is trampled down? in ?waters of? a dung heap.
11 And it will spread out its hands in the midst of it,
just as the swimmer spreads out to swim,
and its pride will be brought low with the movement of its hands.
12 And he will throw down the fortification of the high point of your walls;
he will bring it low;
he will ?send it? to the ground,
to the dust.
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Eternal God, we commit to Your mercy and forgiveness the year now ending and commend to Your blessing and love the times yet to come. In the new year, abide among us with Your Holy Spirit that we may always trust in the saving name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Concluding Prayer
Heavenly Father, send Your Holy Spirit into our hearts to direct and rule us to do Your will, to comfort us in all our afflictions, to defend us from all error, and to lead us into all truth; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
