Emergency Prayer Request from Deacon Faye VanderMark

Emergency Prayer Request from Deacon Faye VanderMark

      Almost everyone is being evaluated from Sidney, Unadilla, Walton and other communities in New York because of renewed flooding from the incessant rain. Please pray for the rain to stop, for no more damage to property, injury to people, or loss of life. Pray that others will know how to assist them in their hour of trial.
Torre Bissell

Psalm 50:4-6 and Te Deum Laudamus

He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people: (Psalm 50:4)
      Jesus, you shall come and judge your peole on that last day — have mercy on us.

“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.” (Psalm 50:5)
      Father, David understood (2 Samuel 24:21-24) that sacrifices which cost nothing are no sacrifices at all. Help us enter into a true covenant life with you through the sacrifice of your son Jesus.

Let the heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. (Psalm 50:6)
      Holy Spirit, help us hear these words and know that there is no other who will judge us for all eternity but Jesus the Christ himself.

            Te Deum Laudamus.
      WE praise thee, O God : we acknowledge thee to be the Lord.
      All the earth doth worship thee : the Father everlasting.
      To thee all Angels cry aloud : the Heavens, and all the Powers therein.
      To thee Cherubim and Seraphim : continually do cry,
      Holy, Holy, Holy : Lord God of Sabaoth;
      Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty : of thy glory.
      The glorious company of the Apostles : praise thee.
      The goodly fellowship of the Prophets : praise thee.
      The noble army of Martyrs : praise thee.
      The holy Church throughout all the world : doth acknowledge thee;
      The Father : of an infinite Majesty;
      Thine honourable, true : and only Son;
      Also the Holy Ghost : the Comforter.
      Thou art the King of Glory : O Christ.
      Thou art the everlasting Son : of the Father.
      When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man : thou didst not abhor the Virgin’s womb.
      When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death : thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers.
      Thou sittest at the right hand of God : in the glory of the Father.
      We believe that thou shalt come : to be our Judge.
      We therefore pray thee, help thy servants : whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood.
      Make them to be numbered with thy Saints : in glory everlasting.
      O Lord, save thy people : and bless thine heritage.
      Govern them : and lift them up for ever.
      Day by day : we magnify thee;
      And we worship thy Name : ever world without end.
      Vouchsafe, O Lord : to keep us this day without sin.
      O Lord, have mercy upon us : have mercy upon us.
      O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us : as our trust is in thee.
      O Lord, in thee have I trusted : let me never be confounded.

Thursday: 50 * [59,60] or 93, 96; 1 Kings 18:1-19 Phil. 2:12-30 Matthew 2:13-23
Friday: 40, 54 * 51; 1 Kings 18:20-40 Phil. 3:1-16 Matthew 3:1-12

A word received: Keep turning to me.

Albany Intercessor

George Washington’s prayer for the nation

ALMIGHTY God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection, that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government, and entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow citizens of the United States at large. And finally that Thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation. Grant our supplications, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN.

Glory–an interesting symmetry

In the Old Testament, the glory fills Solomon’s temple at its dedication (1 Kings 8, 2 Chronicles 5). Later, in a vision, Ezekiel is transported from Babylon to Jeruslem, where he witnesses the progressive departure of the glory from the temple (Ezekiel 8-11).
In the New Testament, the glory returns in the Word Incarnate, Jesus Christ. We shall commence in the middle of this series and go backward in time in the OT and forward in time in the NT.

OT–Ezekiel saw the glory move to a mountain east of Jerusalem after the Spirit showed him the princes of the people devising iniquity and giveing wicked counsel.
NT–A star rose in the east, leading wise men to the king of the Jews. Angels brought shepherds in the field good tidings and a sign.
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OT–Ezekiel saw the glory move to the east gate after angels marked the foreheads of those aggrieved by the abominations in the temple, slaughtered everyone else, and scattered burning coals over the city.
NT–At eight days of age, Jesus is brought to the courts of the temple for circumcision. (Eight is the Hebraic number for a new beginning.) Simeon supernaturally recognizes him as the Christ and declares him “a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.”
Simeon tells Mary, “This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul too.”
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OT–Ezekiel saw the glory move to the threshold after the Spirit showed him the abominations in the temple.
NT–The boy Jesus spent three days among the teachers of the temple, amazing them with his understanding.
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OT–The Spirit transports Ezekiel to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court, from Babylon where the elders of Judah were sitting before him.
NT–Jesus challenges the Pharisees at the feast of the tabernacles, and they plot to kill him. Jesus says, “He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, “Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”
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OT–Solomon dedicates the temple with musical fanfare. The temple fills with a cloud, and the priests cannot stand.
NT–Jesus’s triumphant entry is followed by overturning the money changers’ tables. Jesus decrees, “It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer.”
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OT–While the whole assembly of Israel was standing, the king blessed them.
NT–As Jesus dies, the veil of the temple is torn in two from top to bottom.