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

From a biblical point of view, prayer is related to everything that we are and everything that God is. God does not respond to our prayers. God responds to us: to our whole life. What we say to Him cannot be separated from what we think, feel, will and do. Prayer is communication from whole persons to the Wholeness which is the living God. Prayer is misunderstood until we see it this way.
Bingham Hunter

We are meant to long supremely for the Lord Himself, for the Giver, not His gifts. The absence of blessings – rejection, vanity, reviling, illness, poverty – often is the crucible in which we learn to love God for who He is. In our idolatry we make gifts out to be supreme goods, and make the Giver into the errand boy of our desires.
David Powlison

Bible – French Darby Psaumes Chapter 2:1-12.

Index: French Darby

 

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2:1 ¶ Pourquoi s’agitent les nations, et les peuples méditent-ils la vanité?

2:2 Les rois de la terre se lèvent, et les princes consultent ensemble contre l’Éternel et contre son Oint:

2:3 Rompons leurs liens, et jetons loin de nous leurs cordes!

2:4 Celui qui habite dans les cieux se rira d’eux, le Seigneur s’en moquera.

2:5 Alors il leur parlera dans sa colère, et, dans sa fureur, il les épouvantera:

2:6 Et moi, j’ai oint mon roi sur Sion, la montagne de ma sainteté.

2:7 ¶ Je raconterai le décret: l’Éternel m’a dit: Tu es mon Fils; aujourd’hui, je t’ai engendré.

2:8 Demande-moi, et je te donnerai les nations pour héritage, et, pour ta possession, les bouts de la terre;

2:9 Tu les briseras avec un sceptre de fer; comme un vase de potier tu les mettras en pièces.

2:10 ¶ Et maintenant, ô rois, soyez intelligents; vous, juges de la terre, recevez instruction:

2:11 Servez l’Éternel avec crainte, et réjouissez-vous avec tremblement;

2:12 Baisez le Fils, de peur qu’il ne s’irrite, et que vous ne périssiez dans le chemin, quand sa colère s’embrasera tant soit peu. Bienheureux tous ceux qui se confient en lui!