#love-of-God #how-to-pray
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A nocturne is music inspired by the night. Twenty-eight hundred years before Chopin composed his nocturnes, someone sang out in the deep darkness of night. Join their song—let’s pray… As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When
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Waiting for God to answer can be agony. King David was having ‘one of those days’, so he prayed this prayer. Join in… I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet
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A Rabbi once said, “Reading Scripture is the highest form of prayer because that’s when God does all the talking.” Here is a Scripture that prays gloriously—the Word of God praising its Author. Join in… “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms
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We have more reasons than we know to give thanks to God. Here is another. Let’s pray… Master of the World, it is not on the basis of our righteousness that we lay our requests before Your presence, but because of Your great mercies. — The Siddur (Jewish Prayer Book) Amein.
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Among the great prayers given to mankind—every word is a perfect, every phrase a dance—it will leave you breathless in the joy of the God Who loves you. I dare you not to smile. …of David O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise;
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In a desert? King David was many times, and this is what he prayed. Let’s join in… O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary
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A world of conspiracies is no match for the King of all kings. Time to pray… How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you. In the shelter of your presence you hide them
Jay McCarl 