Favourite Hymns, Prayers and Texts
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PSALM 139

"The Old Rugged Cross" - my mother's favourite hymn.

PSALM 139

O Lord, You have searched me and You know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You may perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; You are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue You know it completely, O Lord. You hem me in – behind and before; you have laid Your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? If I go up to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in the depths, You are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there, Your hand will guide me, Your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, "surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to You; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You. For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God! – how vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with You. If only you would slay the wicked O God! Away from me you bloodthirsty men! They speak of You with evil intent; Your adversaries misuse Your name. Do I not hate those who hate You, O Lord, and abhor those who rise up against You? I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart; test and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

For the director of music. A psalm of David. NIV



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THE INTERNET PRAYER

Lord you have given us the tools to communicate with your people all over this world. Give us, we ask You, the ability to use this great communication facility as You intended it.

Let it lead us man and woman and child, to men, women and children of all races, of all faiths, of all points of view. May your grace give us all the will and the power to seek friendship, greater understanding of our needs and more importantly the needs of our fellow men, women and children.

Earth is our gift from you O Lord. Show us how to preserve it for the generations to come after us. Let us break down the barriers that have caused tension, misunderstanding, war and revolution and death.

O Lord, we ask these graces in the name of the one who was sent by You to be our mentor, our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

AMEN
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