Powerful Prayer

 

FOUNDED ON KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’s WILL

• ‘Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the LORD, ‘for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation.—Jeremiah 25:12

ROOTED FROM THE CHARACTER AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD

• Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and loving kindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments—v 4
• “Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord. . .“To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness—v 7, 9

EMPTIED THE SUPPLIANT OF SELF

• but to us open shame,  as it is this day—to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You.—v 7
• “Open shame belongs to us, O Lord, to our kings, our princes and our fathers, because we have sinned against You . . . for we have rebelled against Him; nor have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His teachings which He set before us through His servants the prophets.— 8, 9, 10

ASSOCIATED THE SUPPLIANT WITH OTHERS

• we have sinned, we have been wicked. . . for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.—v 16

PLEADED IN HUMBLEST ENTREATING

• So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplications, and for Your sake, O Lord, let Your face shine on Your desolate sanctuary.—v17
• “O my God, incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolation’s and the city which is called by Your name; for we are not presenting our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great compassion. “O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! For Your own sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”—vv17-19

Be Still, I Am God

 

Counsel to a Troubled Heart

• Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.—Psalm 46:10
• Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.—Psalm 100:3
• And now, O LORD our God, deliver us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.—Isaiah 37:20

Comfort to a Murmuring Spirit

• Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.—Psalm 46:10
• How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?—Habakkuk 1:2
• How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?—Psalm 13:2

June 24, 2018

 

Duty to God

 

Educate the Educators

• That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them  to their children: 7That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:–Psalm 78:6-7
• Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons—Deut. 4:9

Educate Them about God

• That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.—Psalm 78:7-8
• . . . shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.—Psalm 78:4
• so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.—Deut. 6:2