Do Not Commit Adultery Against Wisdom Now, O children, listen to me; do not depart from the sayings of my mouth. 8 Keep your paths far from her, and do not go near to the door of her house, 9 lest you give your honor to the others, and your years to the merciless, 10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, 11 and you groan at your end, when your flesh and body are consumed, 12 and say “How I hated discipline,…
+ 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 132:8-12
Psa 132:8 Arise, O LORD, and go to your resting place,
you and the ark of your might.
Psa 132:9 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness,
and let your saints shout for joy.
Psa 132:10 For the sake of your servant David,
do not turn away the face of your anointed one.
Psa 132:11 The LORD swore to David a sure oath
from which he will not turn back:
“One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.
Psa 132:12 If your sons keep my covenant
and my testimonies that I shall teach them,
their sons also forever shall sit on your throne.”
Reading for Friday June 13th Prov 5:7-23
Do Not Commit Adultery Against Wisdom
7 Now, O children, listen to me;
do not depart from the sayings of my mouth.
8 Keep your paths far from her,
and do not go near to the door of her house,
9 lest you give your honor to the others,
and your years to the merciless,
10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
11 and you groan at your end,
when your flesh and body are consumed,
12 and say “How I hated discipline,
and I despised reproof!”
13 and “I did not listen to the voice of my teachers,
and I did not incline my ear to my instructors!
14 I was almost at utter ruin
in the midst of the assembly and congregation.”
15 Drink water from your own cistern
and flowing waters from inside your own well.
16 Shall your springs be scattered outward?
In the streets, shall there be streams of water?
17 May they be yours alone,
and not for strangers who are with you.
18 May your fountain be blessed,
and rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19 She is a deer of love and a doe of grace;
may her breasts satisfy you ?always?;
by her love may you be intoxicated continually.
20 Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman,
and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
21 For before the eyes of Yahweh are ?human ways?,
and all his paths he examines.
22 His iniquities shall ensnare him, the evildoer,
and in the vanity of his sin he shall be caught.
23 He shall die ?for lack of? discipline,
and in the greatness of his folly he shall be lost.
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Lord Jour cross. Forgive Your people their offenses that we, being governed by Your bountiful goodness, may enter at last into Your eternal paradise; for You live and reign with the Father 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.
