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Prayers for 2012
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Foot Prints
One night a man had a dream. He dreamed
he was walking along the beach with the LORD.
Across the sky flashed scenes from his life.
For each scene he noticed two sets of
footprints in the sand: one belonging
to him, and the other to the LORD.
When the last scene of his life flashed before him,
he looked back at the footprints in the sand.
He noticed that
many times along the path of
his life there was only one set of footprints.
He
also noticed that it happened at the very
lowest and saddest times in his life.
This really bothered him and he
questioned the LORD about it:
"LORD, you said that once I decided to follow
you, you'd walk with me all the way.
But I have noticed that during the most
troublesome times in my life,
there is only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why when
I needed you most you would leave me."
The LORD replied:
"My son, my precious child,
I love you and I would never leave you.
During your times of trial and suffering,
when you see only one set of footprints,
it was then that I carried you."
written
by Carolyn Joyce Carty
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A prayer for
Help
Psa 35:1-28
A Psalm of
David.
(1) Plead my cause,
O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that
fight against me.
(2) Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine
help.
(3) Draw out also the spear, and stop the way
against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am
thy salvation.
(4) Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek
after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion
that devise my hurt.
(5) Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the
angel of the LORD chase them.
(6) Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel
of the LORD persecute them.
(7) For without cause have they hid for me their net in
a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
(8) Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his
net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction
let him fall.
(9) And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall
rejoice in his salvation.
(10) All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto
thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for
him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
(11) False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge
things that I knew not.
(12) They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling
of my soul.
(13) But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing
was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer
returned into mine own bosom.
(14) I behaved myself as though he had been my
friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that
mourneth for his mother.
(15) But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered
themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves
together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear
me, and ceased not:
(16) With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed
upon me with their teeth.
(17) Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from
their destructions, my darling from the lions.
(18) I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I
will praise thee among much people.
(19) Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice
over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me
without a cause.
(20) For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful
matters against them that are quiet in the land.
(21) Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and
said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
(22) This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence:
O Lord, be not far from me.
(23) Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even
unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
(24) Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy
righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
(25) Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we
have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
(26) Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together
that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and
dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
(27) Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my
righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be
magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
(28) And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and
of thy praise all the day long.
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Deliverance
Prayer
Psa 140:1 Deliver me, O LORD,
from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
Psa 140:2 Which imagine
mischiefs in their heart; continually are they
gathered together for war.
Psa
140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders'
poison is under their lips. Selah.
Psa
140:4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me
from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
Psa
140:5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have
spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
Psa
140:6 I said unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the
voice of my supplications, O LORD.
Psa
140:7 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast
covered my head in the day of battle.
Psa
140:8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not
his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
Psa
140:9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let
the mischief of their own lips cover them.
Psa
140:10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into
the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Psa
140:11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil
shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Psa
140:12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the
afflicted, and the right of the poor.
Psa
140:13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the
upright shall dwell in thy presence.
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