Wednesday, January 13, 2021

 Our Father in heaven we genuinely know you are a God who saves. You authoritatively speak creative salvation. We hold on for the next morning when you announce the good news. Because we have justly made our request morning by morning, our confident expectation has turned into an irresistible longing for you to faithfully fulfill your promise of salvation. Oh Father there are impossible things that need to be set straight in our personal lives and there is nowhere else to turn but to you. For you revived us with eternal love and truth in order that we might identify the pleasant path that we should walk.

 Father, if we were not encouraged in the night watches we reduced to burning tears at the overwhelming sorrows of this criminal world. But you have arranged us cheerful songs in the night to gently encourage us with greater boldness. We recover all of our comfort in our waiting in expectation. Our souls are poured out before your mighty throne since there is nowhere else to go. There is no other place we feel adequately fulfilled in calling out to you night and day. We will effusively praise you as long as we live.

 Our Father whose love graciously extends from one end of the earth to the other. You have demonstrated your righteousness by your love. We dutifully attend to you as we are awed by the majestic mountains. For your eternal righteousness is like the mighty mountain we long for you to unite our lives. Oh, Father revive us in our sacred worship so that we will heartily rejoice without nervous dread or acute sorrow. We long for the honorable courts of the Lord more than the short-lived pleasures of this miserable world.

 Oh God, our lives are exposed before you. We are aware of the dangers of this world. There are violent threats and lies that come inside our wicked cities. There is jolly little to take refuge in. For the enemies have breached the walls of the rebellious city and there are cries and sore distress in the night watches. The king will praise you as long as he lives because you have occasioned him pleasant sleep. Even in mature age tho there are a thousand troops of the enemy that surrounds him yet he is secured in a safe refuge. We bow down with unshakable confidence and enduring peace. Father, you promise to faithfully deliver the needy and the fatherless in the national arena. We amply secure your salvation. For when we are delivered from our present trial we will be surrounded by the righteous. You will publicly declare the official word of your eternal salvation. Father how we long for that day of peaceful reconciliation and triumph. Our souls will be abundantly satisfied with rejoicing on that official day. We will unanimously praise you night and day.

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