Come, Holy Spirit. Come. ... Day 7

Blessed are you, O LORD our God, Master of the Universe, who sanctified us through Jesus our Messiah, upon You we wait to kindle the fire of Your Holy Spirit within us

A time of silence...


“Let my soul bless the LORD, and let all that is within me bless his holy name; yes, let my soul bless the LORD and forget not all his benefits. (Psalm 103:1-2 NASB)

I will praise the Lord, for it is good, it is pleasant, (Psalm 92:1 NASB) and praise befits the upright; (Psalm 33:1 NASB) yes, it is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to declare your steadfast love in the morning and your faithfulness by night. (Psalm 92:1-2 NASB)”

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; and that my soul, my nobler part, knows very well; (22) for no man knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him. (23)

You have made me of that rank of beings which is a little lower than the heavenly beings and is crowned with glory and honor; (24) for it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand, (25) and the spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD. (26)

My body is capable of being the temple of the Holy Spirit, and my soul of having the Spirit of God dwell in it; (27) I therefore glorify you with my body and with my spirit, which are both yours. (28)

You, Lord, have formed me for yourself, that I might declare your praise. (29)

You take pleasure in those who fear you, in those who hope in your steadfast love. (Psalm 147:11 NASB)

I give thanks to the God of gods, to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever. (Psalm 136:2-3 NASB)

You have loved me with an everlasting love; therefore you have continued your faithfulness to me. (287) You have led me with cords of kindness, with the bands of love. (288)

In this the love of God was made manifest, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that I might live through him. (126)

Glory be to God in the highest, for in and through Jesus Christ there is on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased. (125)

Sing or play a song of worship to God ... or listen here.

Come, Holy Spirit. Come.

A time of silent waiting ...

LORD, make your face to shine upon me and be gracious to me; LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon me and give me peace. (88)”

In the powerful Name of Jesus,
AMEN.

God bless you. +++

Chapter 4
22 Isa 60:7-8.
23 Mal 1:11.
24 Rom 15:16.
25 Isa 11:9.
26 Rom 11:17, 23-26.
27 Zech 12:10.
28 2 Cor 3:15-16.
29 Rev 1:11-12.”

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Come, Holy Spirit. Come. ... Day 6

Blessed are you, O LORD our God, Master of the Universe, who sanctified us through Jesus our Messiah, upon You we wait to kindle the fire of Your Holy Spirit within us

A time of silence...

"Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit away from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. (184)

Give me grace to put off my old self, which is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. (125)

Let the world be crucified to me, and I to the world, by the cross of Christ. (126)

Give me grace, I beg you, to love you, the Lord my God, with all my heart and soul and mind and strength, which is the great and first commandment; (220) to hold fast to you in love (221) and to delight myself always in you; and therein I shall have the desires of my heart. (222)

Circumcise my heart to love you, the LORD my God, with all my heart and with all my soul, that I may live. (223)

O that God’s love may be poured into my heart through the Holy Spirit. (224)

Write your law on my heart, and put it within me, (185) that I may be a letter from Christ, written by the Spirit of the living God, not on a tablet of stone, but on the tablet of my human heart; (186) that the law of my God being in my heart, none of my steps may slip; (187) and that I may delight to do your will, O God, (188) may delight in the law of God in my inner being. (189)

Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law and gospel. (152)

O that I may be filled with the knowledge of your will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. (178)

Let the God who began a good work in me bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. (143)

Fulfill, O God, your purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever: do not forsake the work of your hands. (144)"

http://goodtidingsassemblyofgod.blogspot.com/2010/05/pentecost-sunday-22nd-may-2010.html

Sing or play a song of worship to God. 

Come, Holy Spirit. Come.

A time of silent waiting ...

“I entreat your favor, O God, with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise, (85) for in your favor is life; (86) yes, your steadfast love is better than life itself. (87)

LORD, make your face to shine upon me and be gracious to me; LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon me and give me peace. (88)”

In the powerful Name of Jesus,
AMEN.

God bless you. +++

Chapter 3
85 Ps 119:58.
86 Ps 30:5 (margin).
87 Ps 63:3.
88 Num 6:25-26.
125 Eph 4:22, 24.
126 Gal 6:14.
143 Phil 1:6.
144 Ps 138:8.
152 Ps 119:18.
178 Col 1:9-10.
184 Ps 51:10-12.
185 Jer 31:33.
186 2 Cor 3:3.
187 Ps 37:31.
188 Ps 40:8.
189 Rom 7:22.
220 v. Matt 22:37-38; Mark 12:30.
221 Ps 91:14.
222 Ps 37:4.
223 Deut 30:6.
224 Rom 5:5.

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Come, Holy Spirit. Come. ... Day 5

"Having opened the wounds of sin, both the guilt of it and the power of it, and its remainders in me, I must next seek unto God for the remedy, for healing and help, for from him alone is it to be expected, and he will for this be inquired of by me. (1) And now I must affect my heart with a deep sense of the need I have of those mercies which I pray for ... "

- Matthew Henry

With hearts humbled from confession, let us seek our Father for the assurance of forgiveness, the assurance of his lovingkindness and steadfast love. Is this not the work of the Holy Spirit in our hearts and lives?! Is this not Him whom we seek to be God's Presence abiding with us, in us?

Blessed are you, O LORD our God, Master of the Universe, who sanctified us through Jesus our Messiah, upon You we wait to kindle the fire of Your Holy Spirit within us

A time of silence...

“You, Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you. You are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. (25)

You are a God ready to forgive, merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, (26) who does not always chide nor keep his anger forever. (27)

You, you are he who blots out my transgressions for your own sake, and will not remember my sins, which I am here to put you in remembrance of, and to declare, in order to plead for mercy in Christ. (28)

And now, please let the power of the Lord be great as you have promised, saying, “The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression.” Please pardon the iniquity of your people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have forgiven even until now. (29)

For who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of your inheritance? You do not retain your anger forever, because you delight in steadfast love. O that you would have compassion upon me and tread my iniquities underfoot and cast all my sins into the depths of the sea. (30)”

Sing or play a song of worship to God ... giving thanks for His mercy and grace.

“I have sinned, but I have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, who is the propitiation for my sins, and not for mine only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (37)

It is God who justifies, who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died – more than that, who was raised – who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for me, (38) and whose blood speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. (39)

I desire to count everything as loss for the sake of Christ, and as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having any righteousness of my own, but that which comes through faith in Christ. (40)

This is the name whereby I, with your people, will call him, THE LORD IS OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. (41) In him, Lord, I believe, help my unbelief. (42)

Heal me, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise. (73) Do not be angry with me forever, but revive me again, that I may rejoice in you. Show me your steadfast love, O LORD, and grant me your salvation. (74)"

Come, Holy Spirit. Come. 

A time of silent waiting ...

“I entreat your favor, O God, with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise, (85) for in your favor is life; (86) yes, your steadfast love is better than life itself. (87)

LORD, make your face to shine upon me and be gracious to me; LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon me and give me peace. (88)”

In the powerful Name of Jesus, 
AMEN.

God bless you. +++

1 Exek 36:37.
25 Ps 86:5, 15.
26 Neh 9:17.
27 Ps 103:9.
28 Isa 43:25-26 (v. KJV).
29 Num 14:17-19.
30 Mic 7:18-19.
37 1 John 2:1-2.
38 Rom 8:33-34.
39 Heb 12:24.
40 Phil 3:7-9.
41 Jer 23:6.
42 Mark 9:24.
73 Jer 17:14.
74 Ps 85:5-7.
85 Ps 119:58.
86 Ps 30:5 (margin).
87 Ps 63:3.
88 Num 6:25-26.

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Come, Holy Spirit. Come. ... Day 4

A twist for today that I hope will encourage you onward in this vigil. I was reading a blog by Farrell Mason, and she quoted a poet I enjoy - Rainer Maria Rilke. The poem she shared fit perfectly with this longing for a deeper awareness of the Holy Spirit. I have included it in our prayers for today.

As well, I begin today to see the need for confession, repentance of things I think and say and do that keep the Spirit from His work in my life or even working through my life. So, today some prayers of confession from Matthew Henry.

Blessed are you, O LORD our God, Master of the Universe, who sanctified us through Jesus our Messiah, upon You we wait to kindle the fire of Your Holy Spirit within us

A time of silence...

"I know that if I say I have no sin, I deceive myself, and the truth is not in me; but you have said that if I confess my sins, you are faithful and just to forgive me my sins and to cleanse me from all unrighteousness. (26)

I have set my mind on things beneath, which should have been set on things above, where my treasure is, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God; (70) these are the things which I should seek.

I have paid regard to vain idols and forsaken my hope of steadfast love; (71) have forsaken the fountain of living waters, for cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. (72)

I have done away with the fear of God and hindered meditation before God; (102) I have not called upon your name, nor roused myself to take hold of you. (103)

I have come to you as your people come, and have sat before you as your people sit, and have heard what you have said, when my heart at the same time has been set after gain. (104) And thus have I brought the torn and the lame and the sick for sacrifice, have presented to my God that which I would not have presented to my governor; and have vowed and sacrificed to the Lord what is blemished, when I had in my flock a male. (105)

I have sinned, Father, against heaven and before you: (106) All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; (107) for the God in whose hand is my breath and whose are all my ways, I have not honored. (108)

O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night (294) for my transgressions, and might in such a manner sow in those tears as that at last I may reap in shouts of joy; may now go out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, and may in due time come home with shouts of joy, bringing in my sheaves with me. (295)

I know that if I say I have no sin, I deceive myself, and the truth is not in me; but you have said that if I confess my sins, you are faithful and just to forgive me my sins and to cleanse me from all unrighteousness. (26)"

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,

then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,

go to the limits of your longing.

Embody me.

Flare up like a flame

and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Don't let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.

You will know it by its seriousness. [real-ness]

Give me your hand.

Sing or play a song of worship to God. 

Come, Holy Spirit. Come.

A time of silent waiting ...

In the powerful Name of Jesus,

AMEN.

God bless you. +++

26 1 John 1:7-8.

70 v. Col 3:1-2; Matt 6:21.

71 Jonah 2:8.

72 Jer 2:13.

102 Job 15:4.

103 Isa 64:7.

104 Ezek 33:13.

105 Mal 1:8, 14.

106 Luke 15:18.

107 Rom 3:23.

108 Dan 5:23.

294 Jer 9:1.

295 Ps 126:5-6.”

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