Justice and Worship

Be still my soul. The Lord is on your side. Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain. Leave to thy God to order and provide in every change he faithful will remain. - Kathrina von Schlegel

For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. - Isaiah 43:19 NLT

Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.”  ― J.I. Packer

"Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strong and do it." - Ezra 10:4 

Return to your rest, my soul, for the Lord has been good to you.  For you, Lord, have delivered me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before the Lord in the land of the living. - Psalm 116:7-9

Jesus in your name we pray, come and fill our hearts today.  Lord give us strength to live for you and glorify your name.  - Paul Baloche

You believe in God for your soul. Believe in him about your property. Believe in God about your sick wife or your dying child. Believe in God about your losses and bad debts and declining business. - Charles Spurgeon 

God of uncovered secrets, God of fearless truth: to have faith in your goodness is to trust that after all we would hide is revealed, and all of our whispers are heard, your undying love will remain, and your truth will stand unchanged. May we forgo our protection of self, and find life made whole in shalom. - Corrymeela

So take all that I dream
Take all that I plan
You you hold all my days
There within Your hands

- Christy Nockels 

There is a lot of information coming at us in our inboxes, our social media feeds, from our institutions, and our news sources.  So in our prayers this week, we take a minute to acknowledge that the flood of information, as good as it can be, is not enough to transform our beings.   We take a minute to confess to what we cannot see and ask for the Living God to touch our eyes in this season of a lot of information.