Do, Father! Do strengthen the hearts of those we love. Strengthen our own.
I remember ________________________ today, wounded, disappointed, fainting.
In Your mercy and by Your grace, give us the strength of joy in Christ Jesus. Give us the ennobling of a righteousness not our own. Give to __________________ to look for the very last time at their own unworthiness and see Yours, in the sacrifice of Your Son.
Your steadfast love is for us and for them, and Your unwavering desire that men should know You and appropriate Your merciful judgment is here and now. It is revealed here and now, that God was in the world in His Son, reconciling us to Himself. (2 Corinthians 5:19)
17 O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;
you will strengthen ________________’s heart; you will incline your ear
18 to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, YOU HEAR AND YOU SEE THE OPPRESSION THAT HAS WOUNDED AND TERRORIZED ____________________ (MY FRIEND, MY CHILD, MY SPOUSE, MY NATION;)
May men, who are of the earth, strike terror no more,AND MAY THOSE WHO OPPRESS SPIRITUALLY BE TURNED BACK AND PUT TO SHAME, ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD.
(Psalm 35:4)
17 O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;
you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear
18 to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more. (Psalm 10:17, 18, ESV)
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