Personal prayer From Psalm 119

1. Deal bountifully with me.
2. Open my eyes to scripture.
3. Put false ways far from me.
4. Enlarge my heart toward others.
5. Turn me from worthless things.
6. Teach me good judgement and knowledge.
7. Keep steady my walk through life.
8. Let no iniquity get dominion over me.
9. Be ready to help me.
10. Grant me peace.

About God

He is high above all the nations. - Psalm 112
He looks far down on the heavens and the earth. - Psalm 112
He is holy. - Leviticus 11:44
He remembers me. - Jeremiah 2:2
He is for me. - Psalm 56:9
He is compassionate. - Psalm 78:38
He cares. - 1 Peter 5:7
He does not wish that any should perish. - 2 Peter 3:9
He made himself nothing in the form of a servant. - Philippians 2:7
He is gentle and lowly of heart. - Matthew 11:29
He remembers that I am but flesh. - Psalm 78:39
He loves me. - Galatians 2: 20
He gave himself up for me. - Galatians 2:20
He was despised and rejected by men. - Isaiah 53: 3
He was slain. - Revelation 5: 9
He ransomed people by his blood. Revelation 5: 9
He abundantly pardons. - Isaiah 55:7
He atones for my iniquity. - Psalm 78:38
He satisfies the longing soul. - Psalm 107:9
He gives grace to the humble. - James 4:6
He gives power and strength to his people. - Psalm 68:35
He will never forsake me. - Hebrews 13:5
He will take me to himself. - John 14: 3
He is the beginning and the end. - Revelation 22: 13
He is to be feared. - Psalm 114: 7
He is to be recieved - John 1: 12

A Good Mix

I saw the Lord seated on a throne high and exalted…. “Woe is me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.” Isaiah 6: 1&5. Someone told me this week that one sin is as bad as another. He spoke the truth and that is the great horror. There is a strange mix of joy, and horror in a relationship with God. The joy of being close and growing closer is very real but so is the horror of the awareness of sin and ugliness in my life. The closer my relationship to Jesus, the more I become aware, like Isaiah, of sin in myself and sin in the world. Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the alter. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for. Isaiah 6: 6-7. Ouch!! Sounds painful and it is. Once sin is seen it must be repented of and cut out. I have found that sometimes God uses people who are just like me to do the cutting. He has used other Gary’s who are arrogant, prideful, selfish and hurtful to cut out the arrogance, pride, selfishness and hurtfulness in me. Sometimes sin is a one time occurrence that once revealed can be forgiven by saying I’m sorry and never doing it again. More than I would like to admit, it is deeper than that and can only be taken care of with pain. “My son do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son.” Hebrews 11: 5-6. And there is joy! He loves us. He changes us. He helps us to become the human beings he always intended us to be. Oh what a mix! “ If his sons forsake my law and do not follow my statutes, if they violate my decrees and fail to keep my commands, I will punish their sin with a rod, their iniquity with flogging; but I will not take my love from him, nor will I ever betray my faithfulness. I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered. Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness…Psalm 89: 30-35. “Holy, holy, holy is the LordAlmighty;The whole earth if full of hisglory.” Isaiah 6: 3.