+ DAILY PRAYER +
Hope in God in the Midst of Despair For the music director. A maskil of the sons of Korah. 1 As a deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 4 These I remember and I pour out my soul within me: that I would go with the multitude;…
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 113
Psa 113:1 Praise the LORD! Praise, O servants of the LORD,
praise the name of the LORD!
Psa 113:2 Blessed be the name of the LORD
from this time forth and forevermore!
Psa 113:3 From the rising of the sun to its setting,
the name of the LORD is to be praised!
Psa 113:4 The LORD is high above all nations,
and his glory above the heavens!
Psa 113:5 Who is like the LORD our God,
who is seated on high,
Psa 113:6 who looks far down on the heavens and the earth?
Psa 113:7 He raises the poor from the dust
and lifts the needy from the ash heap,
Psa 113:8 to make them sit with princes,
with the princes of his people.
Psa 113:9 He gives the barren woman a home,
making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the LORD!
Reading for Wednesday January 1st Psalm 42-43
Hope in God in the Midst of Despair
42 For the music director. A maskil of the sons of Korah.
1 As a deer longs for streams of water,
so my soul longs for you, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night,
while they say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
4 These I remember and I pour out my soul within me:
that I would go with the multitude;
I led them in procession to the house of God,
with a voice of rejoicing and thanksgiving,
a crowd celebrating a festival.
5 Why are you ?in despair?, O my soul,
and disturbed within me?
Hope in God, because I will again praise him,
for the salvation of his presence.
6 O my God, within me my soul is ?in despair?;
therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan
and the heights of Hermon, from the mountain of Mizar.
7 Deep is calling to deep
at the thunder of your waterfalls.
All your breakers and your waves
have passed over me.
8 By day Yahweh commands his loyal love,
and in the night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
9 I say to God, my rock,
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I walk about mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10 As with a shattering in my bones
my oppressors taunt me,
while they say to me ?all day?,
“Where is your God?”
11 Why are you ?in despair?, O my soul?
And why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God, because I shall again praise him,
?my salvation? and my God.
A Prayer for Rescue
43 Judge me, O God, and plead my case
against an unfaithful nation.
From a man of deceit and wickedness rescue me,
2 because you are the God of my refuge.
Why have you rejected me?
Why must I go about mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?
3 Send your light and your truth;
they shall lead me.
They shall bring me to ?your holy mountain?
and to your dwelling places.
4 Then I will go to the altar of God,
to God, ?my surpassing joy?,
and I will praise you with lyre,
O God, my God.
5 Why are you ?in despair?, O my soul?
And why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God, because I will again praise him,
?my salvation? and my God.
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Lord God, You made Your beloved Son, our Savior, subject to the Law and caused Him to shed His blood on our behalf. Grant us the true circumcision of the Spirit that our hearts may be made pure from all sins; through 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.
