Category: strength

Fear God (#2 of 2)

Ruth Kirk

Fear him alone (Deuteronomy 13:4; NLT).

Fear God’s awesome fire and strength:
Worship him alone.

Praise God’s gracious mind and heart:
Honour him alone.

Seek God’s faithful love and truth:
Dwell in him alone.

Search God’s endless height and depth:
Trust in him alone.

Share God’s blissful light and peace:
Rest in him alone.

Choose God’s perfect way of life:
Follow him alone.

🖤

God’s way is perfect (2 Samuel 31; NLT). 

Listen! I, the Lord, am giving you a choice between the way that leads to life and the way that leads to death (Jeremiah 21:8; GNT). 

We will follow the Lord our God forever and ever.
(Micah 4:5; NLT).

Fear God (#1 of 2)

Ruth Kirk

I’ll tell you whom to fear. Fear God, who has the power to kill you and then throw you into hell. Yes, he’s the one to fear (Luke 12:5; NLT). 

Each of you must repent and turn to God, and be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38; NLT).

Fear God’s awesome fire and strength:
Turn away from sin.

Seek God’s gracious heart and mind:
Worship only him.

Choose God’s faithful truth and care:
Give up lies and shame.

Search God’s endless height and depth:
Honour his great name.

Share God’s blissful light and peace:
Make his love your home.

Choose God’s perfect way of life –
Serving him alone.

🖤

Serve him alone (Matthew 4:10; CPDV).

 

Give and take (#1 of 2)

Ruth Kirk

Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked I will leave this life.
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
(Job 1:21; CSB).

God gives us everything we have:
Kin, and friends, and neighbours.

He gives us everything we have:
All we regard as “mine”.

He gives us everything we have:
Health, and strength, and senses.

He gives us everything we have:
Flesh, mind, heart, soul; time.

God gives us everything we have:
Faith, and hope, and courage.

He gives us everything we have:
Think about this, and pray,

For we must prepare
To surrender each gift,

As Almighty God
Takes them away.

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Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” (Matthew 26:39; NIV).

He went away a second time and prayed, “My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done.”
(Matthew 26:42; NIV).

 

Living within

Ruth Kirk

I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper
(Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor-Counsellor, Strengthener, Standby),
to be with you forever (John 14:16; AMP). 

Lord,
You’re my Maker,
And I’m only dust,
Yet you are my Comforter,
Living within.

Lord,
You’re my Ruler,
And I’m only sin,
Yet you are my Advocate,
Praying within.

Lord,
You’re my Master,
And I’m only clay,
Yet you are my Counsellor,
Guiding within.

Lord,
I am nothing,
Yet you are my King,
My Strength, my Encourager,
Loving within.

🖤

We know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them (1 John 4:16; NIV).

Your immortal spirit is in every one of them.
(Wisdom of Solomon 12:1; GNTA).

 

You give me faith

Ruth Kirk

By grace you have been saved, through faith –
and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.
(Ephesians 2:8; NIV).

You give me faith,
So I can pray for others.

You give me strength,
So I can help them, too.

You give me love,
So I can serve with joy, Lord.

You give me hope
That I can grow like you.

🖤

The Lord – who is the Spirit –
makes us more and more like him
as we are changed into his glorious image.
(2 Corinthians 3:18; NLT).

 

We cannot understand (#1 of 2 linked prayers)

Ruth Kirk

People cannot see the whole scope
of God’s work from beginning to end
(Ecclesiastes 3:11; NLT).

We cannot understand
Your work,
Failing to see its scope
From start to end.

We cannot comprehend
Your Son,
Failing to grow like him,
As you intend.

We cannot understand
Your strength,
Failing to grasp our emptiness
Within.

We cannot comprehend
Your wrath,
Failing to grasp our ignorance
And sin.

❤️

You are indeed angry, for we have sinned
(Isaiah 64:5;  NKJV).

You will heal my sickness (#6 of 6 linked prayers)

Ruth Kirk

He will heal us
(Hosea 6:1; NLT).

You will heal my sickness,
My depression, fear, and pain;

You will cleanse my sins, Lord God, 
And give me strength again;

You will ransom me from death,
And give me life anew –

When you call my spirit home,
To reunite with you.

The dust returns to the ground it came from,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it
(Ecclesiastes 12:7; NIV).

Please heal my sickness (#5 of 6 linked prayers)

Ruth Kirk

He forgives all my sins
and heals all my diseases
(Psalm 103:3; NLT).

Lord,
Please heal my sickness,
My wretchedness,
My pain;

Forgive my sins;
Renew my youth;
Restore my strength again.

Lord,
Please rescue me from death:
Look down from heaven above,

Cut short my anguish;
End my pain;
And crown me with your love.

He redeems me from death
and crowns me with love
(Psalm 103:4; NLT).

Hope

Ruth Kirk


Give all your worries and cares to God,
for he cares about you
(1 Peter 5:7; NLT).

Lord,
Whatever life may bring,
I want share it all with you,

For, whatever hardships come,
You will always help me through.

Lord,
Whatever I must face,
You will strengthen me to cope,

So, in sickness and distress,
Your constant presence gives me hope.

Let all that I am wait quietly before God,
for my hope is in him
(Psalm 62:5; NLT).