O worship the King, all glorious above,
O gratefully sing His power and His love;
Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days,
Pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise.
O tell of His might, O sing of His grace,
Whose robe is the light, whose canopy space,
His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form,
And dark is His path on the wings of the storm.
The earth with its store of wonders untold,
Almighty, Thy power hath founded of old;
Established it fast by a changeless decree,
And round it hath cast, like a mantle, the sea.
Thy bountiful care, what tongue can recite?
It breathes in the air, it shines in the light;
It streams from the hills, it descends to the plain,
And sweetly distills in the dew and the rain.
Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,
In Thee do we trust, nor find Thee to fail;
Thy mercies how tender, how firm to the end,
Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend.
O measureless might! Ineffable love!
While angels delight to worship Thee above,
The humbler creation, though feeble their lays,
With true adoration shall all sing Thy praise.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
When We Pray for Others
This came from Jean's blog.
"When we pray for others,
the Spirit of God works
in the unconscious domain
of their being that we know nothing about,
and the one we are praying for knows nothing about,
but after the passing of time,
the conscious life of the one prayed for
begins to show signs of unrest and disquiet.
We may have spoken until we are worn out,
but have never come anywhere near,
and we have given up in despair.
But if we have been praying,
we find on meeting them one day
that there is the beginning of a softening in an inquiry
and a desire to know something.
It is that kind of intercession
that does most damage to Satan's kingdom.
It is so slight, so feeble in its initial stages
that if reason is not wedded to the light of the Holy Spirit,
we will never obey it,
and yet it is that kind of intercession
that the New Testament places most emphasis on."
~~Oswald Chambers
"When we pray for others,
the Spirit of God works
in the unconscious domain
of their being that we know nothing about,
and the one we are praying for knows nothing about,
but after the passing of time,
the conscious life of the one prayed for
begins to show signs of unrest and disquiet.
We may have spoken until we are worn out,
but have never come anywhere near,
and we have given up in despair.
But if we have been praying,
we find on meeting them one day
that there is the beginning of a softening in an inquiry
and a desire to know something.
It is that kind of intercession
that does most damage to Satan's kingdom.
It is so slight, so feeble in its initial stages
that if reason is not wedded to the light of the Holy Spirit,
we will never obey it,
and yet it is that kind of intercession
that the New Testament places most emphasis on."
~~Oswald Chambers
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