While folding clothes last night, I was excited about listening to a lecture on Yom Kippur by my Hebrew professor at Covenant Seminary. At the beginning of the audio was a prayer by another professor. I cannot get it out of my head and hade to transcribe it b/c it resonated so deeply in me. Here it is:
Almighty & everlasting God
heaven is your throne
earth is your footstool
holy and reverent is your name
you are worshipped
in the company of the mighty angels and saints on high
and in the
assembly of your people here on earth
how thankful we are for
your grace that has made us a part of that assembly, that we may
lift our praise to you this morning.
The God of abraham isaac and Jacob
The God of
moses and the prophets the God who has finally and
fully revealed Yourself in our Lord, jc, our blessed mediator,
thru whom we are bold to approach unto you
forgive us our sins, and grant us your grace that we may serve you ever more fully .
We live in dangerous times and we pray
for the pacification of iraq for the
end of genocide in darfur
we pray that our blessed mediator who sits at your right hand may so exercise
the kingdom of his power in all the world as may best induce to these ends:
that the gospel may go forth with freedom and with power and that your people may be gathered to you from the ends of the earth
equip us, we pray, to serve you in our generation. --Prayer by David Clyde Jones, grammatical errors by Rob
