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

While revival originates from God, the Holy Spirit has appointed certain means to be used for the advancement of His kingdom. The foremost of these is the preaching of the Word of God accompanied by earnest prayer. Yet, no amount of human endeavor can assure results. The same is true of revival: no measured amount of our activity will guarantee an equivalent blessing, for God's blessing is bestowed according to His good pleasure (Zech. 4:6).
John Sale

To pray at all times is to live in continual God consciousness, where everything we see and experience becomes a kind of prayer, lived in deep awareness of and surrender to our heavenly Father. To obey this exhortation means that, when we are tempted, we hold the temptation before God and ask for His help. When we experience something good and beautiful, we immediately thank the Lord for it. When we see evil around us, we pray that God will make it right and be willing to be used of Him to that end. When we meet someone who does not know Christ, we pray for God to draw that person to Himself and to use us to be a faithful witness. When we encounter trouble, we turn to God as our Deliverer. In other words, our life becomes a continually ascending prayer, a perpetual communing with our heavenly Father. To pray at all times is to constantly set our minds “on things that are above, not on the things that are on earth” (Col. 3:2).
John MacArthur

Bible – Afrikaans – Psalms Chapter 31:1-25.

Index: Afrikaans

 

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31:1 Vir die musiekleier. ‘n Psalm van Dawid.

31:2 By U, o HERE, skuil ek; laat my nooit beskaamd staan nie. Bevry my deur u geregtigheid.

31:3 Neig u oor tot my, red my gou; wees vir my ‘n rots om in te vlug, ‘n baie vaste huis om my te verlos.

31:4 Want U is my rots en my bergvesting; en om u Naam ontwil sal U my lei en my bestuur.

31:5 U sal my laat uitgaan uit die net wat hulle vir my gespan het, want U is my toevlug.

31:6 In u hand gee ek my gees oor; U het my verlos, HERE, God van trou.

31:7 Ek haat die wat nietige afgode vereer, maar ék vertrou op die HERE.

31:8 Ek wil juig en bly wees in u goedertierenheid, omdat U my ellende aangesien, my siel in die benoudhede geken het

31:9 en my nie oorgelewer het in die hand van die vyand nie; U het my voete op vrye grond laat staan.

31:10 Wees my genadig, HERE, want ek is benoud; van verdriet het my oog mat geword, my siel en my liggaam.

31:11 Want my lewe kwyn weg van kommer en my jare van gesug; my krag struikel deur my ongeregtigheid, en my gebeente teer uit.

31:12 Vanweë al my teëstanders het ek ‘n voorwerp van smaad geword, ja, grootliks vir my bure, en ‘n voorwerp van skrik vir my bekendes; die wat my op straat sien, vlug weg van my af.

31:13 Ek is vergeet uit die hart, soos ‘n dooie; ek het geword soos ‘n ding wat lê en vergaan.

31:14 Want ek het die skindertaal van baie gehoor- skrik rondom! – terwyl hulle saam raad hou teen my; hulle is van plan om my lewe te neem.

31:15 Maar ék vertrou op U, o HERE! Ek sê: U is my God.

31:16 My tye is in u hand; red my uit die hand van my vyande en van my vervolgers.

31:17 Laat u aangesig skyn oor u kneg, verlos my deur u goedertierenheid.

31:18 HERE, laat my nie beskaamd staan nie, want ek roep U aan; laat die goddelose beskaamd staan, laat hulle verstom in die doderyk!

31:19 Laat die valse lippe stom word wat in trotsheid en veragting onbeskaamd spreek teen die regverdige.

31:20 o, Hoe groot is u goedheid wat U weggelê het vir die wat U vrees, wat U uitgewerk het vir die wat by U skuil, in teenwoordigheid van die mensekinders!

31:21 U verberg hulle in die skuilplek van u aangesig vir die samesweringe van mense; U steek hulle weg in ‘n hut vir die twis van die tonge.

31:22 Geloofd sy die HERE, want Hy het sy goedertierenheid aan my wonderbaar gemaak, in ‘n vaste stad.

31:23 Ek tog het in my angs gesê: Ek het verdwyn, weg van u oë; nogtans het U die stem van my smekinge gehoor toe ek U aangeroep het om hulp.

31:24 Julle moet die HERE liefhê, al sy gunsgenote! Die HERE bewaar die getroues en vergeld hom oorvloedig wat trots handel.

31:25 Wees sterk, en laat julle hart sterk wees, almal wat op die HERE wag!