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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

As difficult as it might be, the early church had far more to work through than what music would be sung. Their struggles and successes are instructive to us who may have less to work through than they did. It will be sad to face Christ in the future and say, “We could not be the glorious church you called us to be because we could not get together on the music.”
Jim Elliff

Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer is the intense, immediate desire for a certain blessing which seems to be absolutely necessary for the soul to have; the background of prayer is the quiet, earnest desire that the will of God, whatever it may be, should be done. What a picture is the perfect prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane! In front burns the strong desire to escape death and to live; but behind there stands, calm and strong, the craving of the whole life for the doing of the will of God... Leave out the foreground, let there be no expression of the will of him who prays, and there is left a pure submission which is almost fatalism. Leave out the background, let there be no acceptance of the will of God, and the prayer is only an expression of self-will, a petulant claiming of the uncorrected choice of him who prays. Only when the two are there together, the special desire resting on the universal submission, the universal submission opening into the special desire is the picture perfect and the prayer complete.
Phillips Brooks

    • THANKSGIVINGS

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    Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving.

    I will wash my hands in innocency; so will I compass
    Thine altar, O Lord: that I may publish with the voice
    of thanksgiving, and tell of all Thy wondrous works.

    Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the
    Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    Let the people praise Thee, O God; let all the people
    praise Thee.

    From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the
    same, the Lord’s name is to be praised. Let everything
    that hath breath praise the Lord.

    Because Thy loving kindness is better than life, my lips
    shall praise Thee.

    Thus will I bless Thee, while I live; I will lift up my
    hands in Thy name; and my mouth shall praise Thee
    with joyful lips.

    I will extol Thee, O my God. Every day will I bless
    Thee; and I will praise Thy name forever and ever.

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