As an eagle stirs up its nest, Hovers over its young, Spreading out its wings, taking them up, Carrying them on its wings, So the LORD alone led him, And there was no foreign god with him. "He made him ride in the heights of the earth, That he might eat the produce of the fields; He made him draw honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock; Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock.... Then he forsook God who made him, And scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation. (Deuteronomy 32:11-15)
... My people have forgotten Me, They have burned incense to worthless idols. And they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways, From the ancient paths, To walk in pathways and not on a highway, (Jeremiah 18:15)
"For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns--broken cisterns that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13)
"Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is given to covetousness; And from the prophet even to the priest, Everyone deals falsely. They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, Saying, 'Peace, peace!' When there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time I punish them, They shall be cast down," says the LORD. Thus says the LORD: "Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls.... (Jeremiah 6:13-16)
"Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you: (Deuteronomy 32:7)
O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not
present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies. (Daniel 9:18)
SONG FOR TODAY: Prayer For America
Lord, we pray with hearts of mourning for the land we call our home. You have seen our wayward doings, for we live before Your throne. We have strayed far as a people from the ways which You have shown. We have squandered many freedoms which our fathers long have known.
We Your people have forsaken God the maker of us all. We’ve despised our Rock, our Savior, caused ourselves to stumble, fall. We forsook the Living Fountain, drinking from a broken well, Turned aside to broken pathways where no peace can ever dwell.
May we do as You have bid us: stand and see where we have come, Asking for the former pathway, walking as we had begun. May our liberty and freedom e’er be guided by Your hand, So we’ll stand once more united as a people in this land.
O return our hearts and minds, Lord, to the paths which You have given. Make us walk in truth and justice, do Your will as done in heav’n. Hear our prayer, O God of mercy, hear our prayer, and heal our land. Then we’ll find a peaceful resting ‘neath Your wing and guiding hand.
TEXT: Patricia Dys MUSIC: Nettleton 8.7.8.7.D. Traditional American melody (Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing)
And the first unseen but eternal thing Paul mentions, Carol, is his eternal house that is in heaven, made by God of heavenly stuff (I Cor, 15:47-50) which in the eternal "now" Paul has already put on. That's "far better" than "flesh and blood."
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Here is a new song written by my daughter, Pat:
PRAYER FOR AMERICA
SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY:
As an eagle stirs up its nest, Hovers over its young, Spreading out its wings, taking them up, Carrying them on its wings, So the LORD alone led him, And there was no foreign god with him. "He made him ride in the heights of the earth, That he might eat the produce of the fields; He made him draw honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock; Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock.... Then he forsook God who made him, And scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation. (Deuteronomy 32:11-15)
... My people have forgotten Me, They have burned incense to worthless idols. And they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways, From the ancient paths, To walk in pathways and not on a highway, (Jeremiah 18:15)
"For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns--broken cisterns that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13)
"Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is given to covetousness; And from the prophet even to the priest, Everyone deals falsely. They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, Saying, 'Peace, peace!' When there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time I punish them, They shall be cast down," says the LORD. Thus says the LORD: "Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls.... (Jeremiah 6:13-16)
"Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you: (Deuteronomy 32:7)
O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not
present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies. (Daniel 9:18)
SONG FOR TODAY: Prayer For America
Lord, we pray with hearts of mourning for the land we call our home. You have seen our wayward doings, for we live before Your throne.
We have strayed far as a people from the ways which You have shown. We have squandered many freedoms which our fathers long have known.
We Your people have forsaken God the maker of us all.
We’ve despised our Rock, our Savior, caused ourselves to stumble, fall. We forsook the Living Fountain, drinking from a broken well, Turned aside to broken pathways where no peace can ever dwell.
May we do as You have bid us: stand and see where we have come, Asking for the former pathway, walking as we had begun.
May our liberty and freedom e’er be guided by Your hand,
So we’ll stand once more united as a people in this land.
O return our hearts and minds, Lord, to the paths which You have given. Make us walk in truth and justice, do Your will as done in heav’n. Hear our prayer, O God of mercy, hear our prayer, and heal our land. Then we’ll find a peaceful resting ‘neath Your wing and guiding hand.
TEXT: Patricia Dys
MUSIC: Nettleton 8.7.8.7.D. Traditional American melody (Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing)
Posted in: Share Something Encouraging and Be Entered in Our Giveaway
And the first unseen but eternal thing Paul mentions, Carol, is his eternal house that is in heaven, made by God of heavenly stuff (I Cor, 15:47-50) which in the eternal "now" Paul has already put on. That's "far better" than "flesh and blood."