“May all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you! May those who love your salvation say evermore, “God is great!””

‭‭Psalm‬ ‭70‬:‭4‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Amen. Lord God, we join the Psalmist and rejoice and be glad in You! We seek You, help us to seek You with all of our heart. You tell us to seek You while You may be found. And You tell us that those who come to You must believe that You are God and that You are a rewarder of those who seek for You. We want to be those along with David. And Lord God, we want to thank You for saving us! You indeed are great!! We want to proclaim Your greatness evermore. Lead our steps to those who need to hear our proclaiming. And give grace for their seeking after You. We love Your salvation and we love You!

In Jesus’ name. 

“Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord; and that He may send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you,”

‭‭Acts‬ ‭3‬:‭19‬-‭20‬

Lord God, indeed, You are the faithful God, and when we repented and returned to You, You sent the Spirit of the Son into our hearts. And Lord, You have refreshed us as we come into Your holy presence, unafraid. Because the blood of Jesus, You Beloved Son has cleansed us from all our sins. In Your presence is indeed fullness of joy. We worship You on this Lord’s Day that we can gather together with Your Redeemed and sing praises to the Father as led by the Son our precious Savior! We are accepted in the Beloved. And He is our Beloved. Abba Father, we adore You!

In Jesus’ wonderful name. 

“To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.”

‭‭2 Thessalonians‬ ‭1‬:‭11‬-‭12‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Amen. Lord Jesus, this, too, is our prayer for one another. Do make us worthy of our calling.  Thank You, Lord God for this grace we have in our Lord Jesus Christ. And in this grace, may we engage in the good works of faith You have prepared beforehand for us that we could walk in them day by day. Do this in Your people. We lay hold of this grace, this grace that is sufficient for all Your will to be done in us!

May Your name be glorified in us!

In Jesus’ name!

“Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord.”

‭‭Haggai‬ ‭1‬:‭8‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Dear Lord God, we do feel the stirring within our spirit. Once again, You are reminding us to build Your house, not by our might nor by power, but by Your Spirit. Free us from all that has distracted us. We turn back to You.

Lord God, You are in our going up to the hills, You are in our bringing the wood, and You are in the building work as the Architect and Master Builder. You are also the Foundation, the gold and precious building materials, and the Chief Cornerstone. What do we have to give except what You have given first to us. It is ours to say, “Amen.” It is ours to say, “here are we.”It is ours to say, “Lord, build in us.” 

May You take pleasure in it. 

May You be glorified. 

In Jesus’ name. 

“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.””

‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭30‬:‭19-20‬

Lord God, no matter where we find ourselves today, we are calling to mind the blessing and the curse set before us, we turn back to You. You will gather us back to Yourself as You have promised. You will circumcise our hearts so we can love You with all our heart and soul. We choose life, we choose Christ. Christ is our good land. He is the promised seed of the woman, the offspring of Abraham who will bless all the nations, and the Son of David who will rule with righteousness in His eternal Kingdom. We submit to Christ’s Lordship and headship over us with a glad and willing heart. He is the perfect One. We are satisfied with His goodness. 

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord, by faith, by the Spirit of the living God!

Amen!

“May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!”

‭‭Psalm‬ ‭29‬:‭11‬ ‭

Amen, Lord. We pray for strength and we pray for peace. Lord God, in these days of uncertainty and rapid change, we pray that we will not be so easily moved or swayed by the worries, the anxieties of this life. There is the shaking that You Yourself have permitted to expose all the temporary things of this world. But You, Lord, have given Your people a Kingdom that cannot be shaken. This heavenly Kingdom that the King of Righteousness reigns over. We are citizens of a heavenly and eternal Kingdom ruled by the Prince of Peace. So Lord God, we want to thank You for blessing us with the peace that passes understanding whenever we pray and bring our requests to You. Tonight, we want to remember before You M and his family. We pray for strength for M to not trust his own will power or determination, but to wholly trust in Your life and how You poured Your love into His heart. We pray for M to love his wife with the Love You love Him with, this Love that is patient and selfless, willing to lay down his own life kind of Love. And not only have You reconciled us to Yourself, You’ve also given us this ministry of reconciliation. So Lord, minister reconciliation and healing through M to his wife and children. We believe that You are able and that salvation has come to his entire household for Your own glory and good pleasure. How merciful You are. You remember Your own. As You call people to Yourself, we rejoice and ask that You would make us faithful servant to care for them as You draw them. Be the good shepherd in us all. Until You return. 

In Jesus’ faithful name.

“Blessed be the Lord, Because He has heard the voice of my supplication.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭28‬:‭6‬ 

Lord God, we will never stop cease to be amazed that You, Almighty God, would take interest in any of us. Not only are You aware of our existence, You generated our existence. It is the will of God that we live and have our being. So, Lord, we want to bless You for hearing all our prayers. You are collecting them. Our prayers are even as sweet incense ascending to You. You want us to come with our requests to You. You want to be our source of every blessing, every gift, every joy because with You there is the abiding. The things of this world are all passing away, but You work spiritual reality into us. So Lord, go beyond what we ask, beyond what we think, and beyond what we can even imagine. Fulfill Your will. That good and acceptable and perfect will of God! Thank You for hearing our prayers!

We love You, Lord!

“And now it has pleased You to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You; for You, O Lord, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.””

‭‭1 Chronicles‬ ‭17‬:‭27‬ 

Lord God, You have blessed and we are blessed forever, even more than the blessing for David and his house. Thank You for Your blessing of Eternal Life in Your Son, our Lord Jesus! You’ve sent His Spirit into our hearts and now we can call You Abba Father! And we are Your house now for it pleased You to do so. We are the household of God. So Lord, we just want to tell You what a privilege it is not just to be a door keeper like Obed-Edom, and how You blessed Him and His house, but we are constituted Your house, Your dwelling place. 

We love You. We worship You. 

In Jesus’ name. 

“I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;”

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭26‬:‭4‬ 

Lord God, Your promise to Abraham You fulfilled. Israel is still around to inhabit the land You promised to their forefather and we believers from the nations are as the stars in heaven. And by the descendant, Christ Jesus, we are all blessed! Thank You Lord for faith. We lay hold of Your promise given at the Supper before You were taken to be crucified. You instructed the disciples to remember and proclaim Your death until Your return. This morning, we gladly participated in remembering Jesus and worshipping the Father at the Lord’s Table. And we will keep doing so until You come, just as You have promised!

“the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;”

‭‭Numbers‬ ‭6‬:‭25‬ ‭ESV‬

Lord God, what a blessing that You would make Your face shine upon us and be gracious to us. Who are we that You would pay us any interest. But You made us for Your own interests. You long to be gracious to us, You desire for our presence and for our fellowship with You in Christ. We are not an afterthought. You knew us even before we were in the womb of our mothers. So Lord, we long for the shining of You face upon us. We long for Your gracious presence with us. We love You. And we want You for ourselves, for Your children, and for the yet-to-know-You people You have surrounded us with. We want You to fill this land with Your glory because that is in Your heart, too! 

Shine, Jesus, shine!