1 Kings 8:37-53.
1 Kings 8.37-53
"Sometimes the crops may dry up or rot or be eaten by locusts or
grasshoppers, and your people will be starving. Sometimes enemies may
surround their towns, or your people will become sick with deadly
diseases. Listen when anyone in Israel truly feels sorry and
sincerely prays with arms lifted toward your temple. You know what is
in everyone's heart. So from your home in heaven answer their prayers,
according to the way they live and what is in their hearts. Then your
people will worship and obey you for as long as they live in the land
you gave their ancestors.
Foreigners will hear about you and your mighty power, and some of them
will come to live among your people Israel. If any of them pray toward
this temple, listen from your home in heaven and answer their
prayers. Then everyone on earth will worship you, just like your
people Israel, and they will know that I have built this temple to
honor you.
Our Lord, sometimes you will order your people to attack their
enemies. Then your people will turn toward this temple I have built
for you in your chosen city, and they will pray to you. Answer their
prayers from heaven and give them victory.
Everyone sins. But when your people sin against you, suppose you get
angry enough to let their enemies drag them away to foreign countries.
- Later, they may feel sorry for what they did and ask your
forgiveness. Answer them when they pray toward this temple I have
built for you in your chosen city, here in this land you gave their
ancestors. From your home in heaven, listen to their sincere prayers
and do what they ask. Forgive your people no matter how much they
have sinned against you. Make the enemies who defeated them be kind to
them. Remember, they are the people you chose and rescued from Egypt
that was like a blazing fire to them.
I am your servant, and the people of Israel belong to you. So listen
when any of us pray and cry out for your help. When you brought our
ancestors out of Egypt, you told your servant Moses to say to them,
"From all people on earth, the Lord God has chosen you to be his very
own."
God bless you.
"Sometimes the crops may dry up or rot or be eaten by locusts or
grasshoppers, and your people will be starving. Sometimes enemies may
surround their towns, or your people will become sick with deadly
diseases. Listen when anyone in Israel truly feels sorry and
sincerely prays with arms lifted toward your temple. You know what is
in everyone's heart. So from your home in heaven answer their prayers,
according to the way they live and what is in their hearts. Then your
people will worship and obey you for as long as they live in the land
you gave their ancestors.
Foreigners will hear about you and your mighty power, and some of them
will come to live among your people Israel. If any of them pray toward
this temple, listen from your home in heaven and answer their
prayers. Then everyone on earth will worship you, just like your
people Israel, and they will know that I have built this temple to
honor you.
Our Lord, sometimes you will order your people to attack their
enemies. Then your people will turn toward this temple I have built
for you in your chosen city, and they will pray to you. Answer their
prayers from heaven and give them victory.
Everyone sins. But when your people sin against you, suppose you get
angry enough to let their enemies drag them away to foreign countries.
- Later, they may feel sorry for what they did and ask your
forgiveness. Answer them when they pray toward this temple I have
built for you in your chosen city, here in this land you gave their
ancestors. From your home in heaven, listen to their sincere prayers
and do what they ask. Forgive your people no matter how much they
have sinned against you. Make the enemies who defeated them be kind to
them. Remember, they are the people you chose and rescued from Egypt
that was like a blazing fire to them.
I am your servant, and the people of Israel belong to you. So listen
when any of us pray and cry out for your help. When you brought our
ancestors out of Egypt, you told your servant Moses to say to them,
"From all people on earth, the Lord God has chosen you to be his very
own."
God bless you.
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