PerryDox – BeJustAChristian

You’ve been waiting for this moment a long time. Time is often relative, based upon pain, guilt, and doubt. Three months can be a long time when you’re the one at fault. Three months of wondering if God will give you another chance after committing “that” sin. For David, finally, after the disaster of moving the ark unscripturally, after three months of waiting, David once again tries. This time, he carefully follows God’s instructions. This time the wait is over. So what is the emotional outcome? Not just praise, but writing a prayer-song written to instruct others to praise (1 Chronicles 16.8-36). Let’s take this song-prayer, “Christianize,” and personalize it, and then pray it.

I give thanks to you Father, my Brother and my Comforter by calling on the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I proclaim Your deeds among my neighbors. I sing to You, psalms, hymns and spiritual songs; and tell about all Your wonderful works! I honor You, praying “Holy be Your name.” I set my mind on things above and rejoice. Help me to search for You, for by Your strength I can do all things through Christ. Let me never hide from, but to seek Your face always. Oh God, I see how great a love the Father has given me that I should be called God’s child— I am a chosen one. You are my God. I remember Your old and new covenants forever — the promise You ordained for a thousand generations, the covenant You made with Abraham, and to Christ’s church as an everlasting covenant: blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. When only 120 gathered in the upper room, temporary residents in this world, You allowed no one to overcome them spiritually. Oh God, rebuke Satan on my behalf: “Do not touch My anointed one or harm My child.” I sing to You and proclaim my salvation in Jesus’ name, day to day. I declare Your glory among my friends, neighbors and co-workers – “My God is great and highly praised; He is feared above all fears. The Lord made the heavens. Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and joy are in His place.” Ascribe to the Lord, my family, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to Jesus the glory of His name; I bring myself as an offering and come before You. I worship in the splendor of Your holiness; and tremble before You. My world cannot be shaken. I bow my knee and confess before heaven and earth, that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. I see creation, the sea and everything in it, the fields and all that is in them, exult. Even the trees of the forest shout for joy before the Lord, for Jesus is coming to judge. I give thanks, for You are good; Your faithful love endures forever. And when I sin, I plead, “Save me, God of my salvation; gather me and rescue me from this world so that I may give thanks to Your holy name and rejoice in Your praise.” May the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the God of His Church, be praised from everlasting to everlasting. And in Jesus name, through the Holy Spirit, I pray, hallelujah and amen.

Do you remember a time when you felt free from the weight of pain, guilt and doubt?

Prayer Challenge: Pray this, or make it your own by adding your personal praise.

Tags: Prayer, Praying through the Bible

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