[The older brother] was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, but he answered his father, “Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. But when [...]
Tag Archives: new heaven and new earth
A Prayer about Why God Loves Us
April 28, 2013 – 4:03 am
The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for [...]
A Prayer for Our Churches to Exist as Gardens of Grace
April 18, 2013 – 3:38 am
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in [...]
A Prayer of Increased Longings for the Redeemed Creation
June 2, 2012 – 5:26 am
I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!” And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” [...]
A Prayer about Why God Loves Us
April 28, 2012 – 3:23 am
The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for [...]
A Prayer in Praise of God’s Over-the-Top Goodness
April 19, 2012 – 5:10 am
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus. Rom. 15:5 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in [...]
A Prayer about the Day of Singing Mountains and Clapping Trees
January 10, 2012 – 4:41 am
So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills [...]
A Prayer about the Stable-izing of All Things
December 18, 2011 – 5:53 am
“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.” Micah 5:2 “See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to [...]
A Prayer about God’s Kingdom and Our Little “Flock-ness”
October 15, 2011 – 5:00 am
Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your [...]
A Prayer Longing for the Day of Perfect Relationships
August 7, 2011 – 5:32 am
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:34-35 Dear Lord Jesus, there are so many things we intensely crave about our coming life in the new heaven [...]
