Our God is here, his spirit is with us we lift up our Hearts to the lord our god For you are my god, I earnestly seek you, I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you i will praise you as long as i live Hallowed the name, name above all name of the one a crown to befall hallowed the scars of infinite worth purging from us the darkness of earth hallowed the place, the place where you died where water and blood fell like tears from your side hallowed the face upon which i gaze shining of fire the ancient of days. 105-112 By your words I can see where I'm going; 113-120 I hate the two-faced, 121-128 I stood up for justice and the right; o God save us from ourselves from our double standards and divided hearts and give us light and life in jesus christ our lord Glory to God; father, Son and holy Spirit, yesterday, today and Tomorrow Amen 14-16Personally, I've been completely satisfied with who you are and what you are doing. You seem to me to be well-motivated and well-instructed, quite capable of guiding and advising one another. So, my dear friends, don't take my rather bold and blunt language as criticism. It's not criticism. I'm simply underlining how very much I need your help in carrying out this highly focused assignment God gave me, this priestly and gospel work of serving the spiritual needs of the non-Jewish outsiders so they can be presented as an acceptable offering to God, made whole and holy by God's Holy Spirit. 17-21Looking back over what has been accomplished and what I have observed, I must say I am most pleased—in the context of Jesus, I'd even say proud, but only in that context. I have no interest in giving you a chatty account of my adventures, only the wondrously powerful and transformingly present words and deeds of Christ in me that triggered a believing response among the outsiders. In such ways I have trailblazed a preaching of the Message of Jesus all the way from Jerusalem far into northwestern Greece. This has all been pioneer work, bringing the Message only into those places where Jesus was not yet known and worshiped. My text has been, We offer our prayers for:
OurfatherinheavenHallowedbeyouryourkingdomcomeyouwillbedoneonearthasitisinheavengive usthisdayourdailybreadforgiveusoursinsasweforgivethosewhohavesinnedagainstusleadusnotin totemptationbutdeliverusfromevilforyoursisthekingdomthepowerandtheglorynowandforeveramen May the God of hope fill us up with joy, fill us up with peace, so that our believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope! Let us bless the lord - thanks be to god! |
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