Look, the days are coming,” ?declares? Yahweh, “and I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humankind, and with the seed of animals. 28 ?And then? as I have watched over them to pull up, and to tear down, and to annihilate, and to destroy, and to do evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” ?declares? Yahweh. 29 “In those days they will say no longer, ‘?Parents? have eaten unripe fruit, and the teeth of the children ?are set on edge?.’ 30 ?But? each will die because of his iniquity, ?everyone? who eats the unripe fruit, their teeth will ?be set on edge?….
+ 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 103:6-14
Psa 103:6 The LORD works righteousness
and justice for all who are oppressed.
Psa 103:7 He made known his ways to Moses,
his acts to the people of Israel.
Psa 103:8 The LORD is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Psa 103:9 He will not always chide,
nor will he keep his anger forever.
Psa 103:10 He does not deal with us according to our sins,
nor repay us according to our iniquities.
Psa 103:11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
Psa 103:12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
Psa 103:13 As a father shows compassion to his children,
so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him.
Psa 103:14 For he knows our frame;
he remembers that we are dust.
Reading for Monday May 11th Jeremiah 31:27-40
The New Covenant
27 “Look, the days are coming,” ?declares? Yahweh, “and I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humankind, and with the seed of animals. 28 ?And then? as I have watched over them to pull up, and to tear down, and to annihilate, and to destroy, and to do evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” ?declares? Yahweh. 29 “In those days they will say no longer, ‘?Parents? have eaten unripe fruit, and the teeth of the children ?are set on edge?.’ 30 ?But? each will die because of his iniquity, ?everyone? who eats the unripe fruit, their teeth will ?be set on edge?.
31 Look, the days are coming,” ?declares? Yahweh, “and I will ?make? a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I ?made? with their ancestors on the day of my grasping them by their hand, bringing them out from the land of Egypt, my covenant that they themselves broke, though I myself was a master over them,” ?declares? Yahweh. 33 “But this is the covenant that I will ?make? with the house of Israel after those days,” ?declares? Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts and on their hearts I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people. 34 And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor, or each one his brother, ?saying?, ‘Know Yahweh,’ for all of them will know me, from their ?smallest? and up to their ?greatest?,” ?declares? Yahweh, “for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will no longer remember.”
35 Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for light by day, the regulations of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea and its waves roar—Yahweh of hosts is his name. 36 “If these rules would cease from ?before me?,” ?declares? Yahweh, “also the offspring of Israel would cease from being a nation ?before me? ?forever?.” 37 Thus says Yahweh, “If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, also I will reject all the offspring of Israel because of all that they have done,” ?declares? Yahweh. 38 “Look, days are coming,” ?declares? Yahweh, “and the city will be rebuilt for Yahweh, from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 39 And ?the measuring line? will still go out immediately in front of it to the hill of Gareb, and it will turn to Goah. 40 And the whole of the valley of the corpses, and the ashes, and all the cultivated fields up to the wadi of Kidron, up to the corner of the Gate of the Horses toward the east will be holy to Yahweh. It will not be uprooted, and it will not be overthrown again ?forever?.”
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Lord God, our heavenly Father, You stood afar off, waiting to see Your prodigals appear at the gate. Then running to us, You overwhelmed us with grace and invited us to sit at table, to rejoice at our homecoming. Help us to repent of our sins and strip us of every thought that we might merit Your salvation. Then bring us home to be with You at the marriage feast of the Lamb in His kingdom which has no end; through Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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.
