+ DAILY PRAYER +
Look, their prosperity is not in their hands; the schemes of the wicked are repugnant to me. 17 “How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and their disaster comes upon them? He distributes pains in his anger. 18 How often are they like straw ?before? the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away? 19 ‘God stores up his iniquity for his children’?
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 51:5-13
Psa 51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Psa 51:6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,
and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Psa 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Psa 51:8 Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
Psa 51:9 Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.
Psa 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.
Psa 51:11 Cast me not away from your presence,
and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Psa 51:12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
and uphold me with a willing spirit.
Psa 51:13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners will return to you.
Psa 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,
O God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
Psa 51:15 O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare your praise.
Reading for Wednesday September 25th Job 21:16-34
16 Look, their prosperity is not in their hands;
the schemes of the wicked are repugnant to me.
17 “How often is the lamp of the wicked put out,
and their disaster comes upon them?
He distributes pains in his anger.
18 How often are they like straw ?before? the wind,
and like chaff that the storm carries away?
19 ‘God stores up his iniquity for his children’?
Then let him repay it to him that he may know.
20 Let his eyes see his decay,
and let him drink from the wrath of Shaddai,
21 for what ?does he care for? his house after him,
when the number of his months is cut off?
22 Can anyone teach knowledge to God,
since he himself judges high ones?
23 This one dies ?in full prosperity?,
?completely? at ease and secure.
24 His vats are full with milk
and the marrow of his bones is moist.
25 Yet another dies with a bitter inner self
and has not tasted prosperity.
26 They lie down together in the dust,
and maggots cover them.
27 “Look, I know your thoughts
and the schemes you devise against me.
28 For you say, ‘Where is the nobleman’s house,
and where are ?the tents in which the wicked dwell??’
29 Do you not ask those traveling the roads,
and do you not take notice of their accounts?
30 Indeed, the wicked is spared from the day of disaster;
he is delivered from the day of wrath.
31 Who denounces his way to his face?
And who repays him for what he has done?
32 When he is brought to the grave,
then someone stands guard over the tomb.
33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him;
everyone will follow after him,
and ?before? him ?they are innumerable?.
34 So how will you comfort me with emptiness,
when fraud is left in your answers?”
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Father in heaven, at the Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River You proclaimed Him Your beloved Son and anointed Him with the Holy Spirit. Make all who are baptized in His name faithful in their calling as Your children and inheritors with Him of everlasting life; through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord, 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.
