I have been searching and now i am found. This is what I ask of you creator God: That I might be part of your house all the days of my life. To see the beauty of god as i search the holy places to know you more.
Where can i find life? You are the words that breathe life, life that lasts forever. You are the holy one.
All respect to you, jesus - king of forever. Through you I can stand before my God, through the torn curtain.
Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what's best— as above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge! You can do anything you want! You're ablaze in beauty! Amen |
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2 Peter 1.1-15
Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who have received a faith as precious as ours through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:
May grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
His divine power has given us everything needed for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants in the divine nature. For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love. For if these things are yours and are increasing among you, they keep you from being ineffective and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.For anyone who lacks these things is short-sighted and blind, and is forgetful of the cleansing of past sins. Therefore, brothers and sisters, be all the more eager to confirm your call and election, for if you do this, you will never stumble. For in this way, entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will be richly provided for you.
Therefore I intend to keep on reminding you of these things, though you know them already and are established in the truth that has come to you. I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to refresh your memory, since I know that my death will come soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me. And I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things.
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Posted 22 Dec 2014, 02:12 by Mark Broomhead
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Psalm 124
Refrain:Our help is in the name of the Lord.
1If the Lord himself had not been on our side, • now may Israel say;
2If the Lord had not been on our side, • when enemies rose up against us;
3Then would they have swallowed us alive • when their anger burned against us;
4Then would the waters have overwhelmed us and the torrent gone over our soul; • over our soul would have swept the raging waters. R
5But blessed be the Lord • who has not given us over to be a prey for their teeth.
6Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowler; • the snare is broken and we are delivered.
7Our help is in the name of the Lord, • who has made heaven and earth.
Refrain:Our help is in the name of the Lord.
O God, maker of heaven and earth, you save us in the water of baptism and by the suffering of your Son you set us free; help us to put our trust in his victory and to know the salvation won for us by Jesus Christ our Lord. |
Posted 22 Dec 2014, 02:10 by Mark Broomhead
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Isaiah 52.13-53.end
See, my servant shall prosper;
he shall be exalted and lifted up,
and shall be very high.
Just as there were many who were astonished at him
—so marred was his appearance, beyond human semblance,
and his form beyond that of mortals—
so he shall startle many nations;
kings shall shut their mouths because of him;
for that which had not been told them they shall see,
and that which they had not heard they shall contemplate.
Who has believed what we have heard?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by others;
a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity;
and as one from whom others hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him of no account.
Surely he has borne our infirmities
and carried our diseases;
yet we accounted him stricken,
struck down by God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions,
crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the punishment that made us whole,
and by his bruises we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
By a perversion of justice he was taken away.
Who could have imagined his future?
For he was cut off from the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people.
They made his grave with the wicked
and his tomb with the rich,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with pain.
When you make his life an offering for sin,
he shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days;
through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.
Out of his anguish he shall see light;
he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge.
The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;
because he poured out himself to death,
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
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Posted 22 Dec 2014, 02:11 by Mark Broomhead
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I chain to myself today
The strong name of the Trinity,
By invoking the same,
The Three in One and One in Three.
Today I chain to myself forever:
By power of faith, the bodily Christ;
His baptism in the river of Jordan;
His death on the cross for my salvation;
His bursting from the covered tomb;
His ascension into the heavenly realm;
His coming at the final day;
I bind unto myself today.
I chain to myself today:
The power of the great love of the Cherubim;
The comforting 'Well done' in the time of judgement;
The service of the Seraphim,
The faith of the Confessors,
The word of the Apostles,
The prayers of the Patriarchs,
The scrolls of the Prophets,
All of the good works done for the Lord,
And the purity of Christ.
I chain to myself today:
The virtues of the skies,
The life giving rays of the sun,
The purity of the moon at night,
The free flashing of the lightning,
The whirling wind's tempestuous shocks,
The stable earth, the deep salt sea,
Around the ancient rocks of the earth.
I chain to myself today:
The power of God to hold and lead me,
His eye to watch over me, His might to uphold me,
His ear to hear my cries of need.
The wisdom of my God to teach me,
His hand to guide me and His shield to protect me,
The word of God to give me Godly speech,
His angels to be my guard.
Against the demons trapping me in sin,
The vice that gives power to temptation,
The natural lusts that war inside my soul,
The people who oppose me at every stage;
Few or many, near or far,
In every place and at all times of the day.
Against their fierce opposition,
I chain to myself these holy powers.
Against all of Satan's greatest efforts,
Against heresies and all false teaching,
Against the knowledge that destroys the mind,
Against the things the heart places on pedestals,
Against the evil crafted by the enemy,
Against mortal wounds and all physical harm,
The ones who threaten to hurt and destroy me,
Protect me, Christ, till you return in glory.
Christ be with me, Christ within me,
Christ behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beside me, Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me,
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ in quiet, Christ in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.
I chain to myself the name,
The strong name of the Trinity;
By invoking the same.
The Three in One, and One in Three,
From whom all nature has creation,
Eternal Father, Spirit, Son:
All praise goes to the Lord of my salvation,
Which is of Christ the Lord. |
