December 25, 2009

  • appealing to the zeal of the LORD of hosts

    Isaiah 9:7

    Of the increase of his government and of peace
    there will be no end,
    on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
    to establish it and to uphold it
    with justice and with righteousness
    from this time forth and forevermore.
    The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

    Lord of heaven
    Lord of earth
    Lord of the church
    Lord of all

    You are everlasting
    You always were
    You always are
    You always shall be
    We are but a vapor
    We are but the branches
    Apart from You we are nothing
    Apart from You we can do nothing

    You sent Your only begotten Son to fulfill the very words Isaiah spoke hundreds of years beforehand
    Jesus Christ came of the line of David, yet born of the Holy Spirit in the virgin womb
    fully God and fully man
    through Whom Your Kingdom came to earth
    the King came to earth
    the King of kings

    You have promised of the increase of His government there will be no end
    You have promised of the increase of His peace there will be no end
    You have come to rule in human hearts by Your Spirit
    You have come to bring peace to men through Your blood

    Lord of hosts, we praise Your holy name
    Your zeal has done this

    You have established your Kingdom here
    Yet Your kingdom is not of this world
    Your kingdom is within us who believe
    We are Your chosen people in whom You have put Your Spirit

    Lord of hosts, we praise Your holy name
    Your zeal has done this

    We are a kingdom of priests, a holy nation
    Now we are asking that You keep Your promise
    Now we are asking that You uphold the Kingdom You have established in us

    Lord of hosts, we appeal to You, to Your zeal
    Surely the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

    We have no power of ourselves to be Kingdom people
    We look at ourselves and see we are so far from the Kingdom You intended.
    Forgive us our sins, O Lord of hosts.
    Conform us into Your image.

    Lord of hosts, we appeal to You, to Your zeal
    Surely the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

    You have birthed Your people by Your incorruptible seed
    Apart from You we were not a people,
    but now by Your grace we are Your people

    Lord of hosts, we praise Your holy name
    Your zeal has done this

    You have imparted to Your people Your everlasting life
    Apart from You we had no life
    but now by Your grace we have everlasting life

    Lord of hosts, we praise Your holy name
    Your zeal has done this

    You have promised to sustain Your people by Your life
    You are the beginning and You are the ending
    and now by Your grace You are upholding us by the word of Your power

    Lord of hosts, we praise Your holy name
    Your zeal has done this

    You are the alpha and You are the omega
    We have no beginning and we have no life
    apart from Your sovereign grace breathing life into us

    Lord of hosts, we praise Your holy name
    Your zeal has done this

    You are the author and You are the perfecter
    We have no story and we have no faith
    apart from Your sovereign grace intervening in our stories

    Lord of hosts, we praise Your holy name
    Your zeal has done this

    Lord of hosts,
    We are strangers and aliens here
    Sustain and uphold us
    Carry and strengthen us
    By Your resurrection power
    For the pilgrim journey that yet lies ahead for us

    Lord of hosts, we appeal to You, to Your zeal
    Surely the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

    We are Your new creation
    Ordained to walk in good works
    Sanctify and purify us
    Complete and finish in us
    The work You have begun in us

    Lord of hosts, we appeal to You, to Your zeal
    Surely the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

    We are Your ambassadors
    Fill and empower us
    Anoint and embolden us
    Send us out into the world
    As You sent Your Son into the world

    Lord of hosts, we appeal to You, to Your zeal
    Surely the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

    We are ministers of New Covenant glory
    not sufficient of ourselves
    may Your grace toward us not be in vain
    but let us work harder
    yet not us but Your grace in us

    Lord of hosts, we appeal to You, to Your zeal
    Surely the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

    We are stewards of Your Gospel
    the power of God to those who believe
    may we guard it carefully
    may we proclaim it boldly
    may we never be ashamed of it or of You

    Lord of hosts, we appeal to You, to Your zeal
    Surely the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

    Amen.

    As His Holy Spirit leads you, please add your prayers to the Lord of hosts...

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"he called it the tent of meeting..."

I am burdened to pray to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for the reformation and reviving of Christ's church.

The phrase tent of meeting comes from Exodus 33:7: Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.

This site is devoted to God first and foremost. In all that is done here, my prayer is that God is glorified and His Name magnified and Christ and Him crucified is lifted up so He might be preeminent and God might receive all the praise, honor and glory due His Holy Name. All who have come to a saving knowledge of our Father by grace through faith in the all-sufficient sacrifice of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ are welcome to enter this tent of meeting to seek the Lord.

This blog is a place for all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ to come and seek God's face for revival. My intention is for this tent of meeting to be a holy place where we can enter into PRAYER together to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, as the Holy Spirit leads you, please enter into prayer either here (think of "comments" as prayers) or on your own.

Habakkuk 3:2 O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.

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