Our praying can be enhanced when we pray using words from Scripture. These prayers are from passages that I have held close at difficult and confusing times in life.
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Though the
fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the
olive crop fails and the fields produce no food,
though
there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,
yet I will
rejoice in you, Lord; I will be joyful in you, God my Savior.
You, Sovereign Lord, are my strength; you make my feet like the feet of a
deer, you enable me to tread on the heights. (Habakkuk
3:16-19)
My heart
is not proud, Lord, my eyes are not haughty;
I do not
concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me.
But I have
calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother; like a
weaned child I am content.
Israel, put your hope in the Lord both now and forevermore. (Psalm 131)
Oh, the
depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How
unsearchable your judgments,
and your paths beyond tracing out!
Who has
known your mind, Lord? Or who has been your counselor?
Who has
ever given to you, God, that you should repay them?
For from
you and through you and for you are all things.
To you be the glory forever! Amen. (Romans
11:33-36)
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked I will depart.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
may the name of the Lord be praised.” (Job
1:21)
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