September 22, 2012
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Prodigal son, my dear seed, How for thy soul shall I plead?
Prodigal son, my dear seed,
How for thy soul shall I plead?If I petitioned for famine to cease,
If I prayed for worldly prosperity,Would you come to yourself?
Would you fall to your knees?Would you hunger and thirst
For Christ's righteousness first?Would you mourn and lament?
Confess your sin and repent?Prodigal son, my dear seed,
How for thy soul shall I plead?If I petitioned for famine to cease,
If I prayed for worldly prosperity,Would you remain by sin bound?
In death's crypt, lost never found?Would you wear the robe, shoes, and ring?
Watch me frolic and hear me sing?Would you ever know my embrace?
Mingle joyful tears on my face?
How for thy soul shall I plead,
Prodigal son, my dear seed?[See Luke 15]
My little child, in my prayers I labor
That you might feast upon the Lord's favorLuke 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. 17 And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.”Isaiah 57
14 And it shall be said,
“Build up, build up, prepare the way,
remove every obstruction from my people's way.”
15 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up,
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
“I dwell in the high and holy place,
and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly,
and to revive the heart of the contrite.
16 For I will not contend forever,
nor will I always be angry;
for the spirit would grow faint before me,
and the breath of life that I made.
17 Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry,
I struck him; I hid my face and was angry,
but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.
18 I have seen his ways, but I will heal him;
I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,
19 creating the fruit of the lips.
Peace, peace, to the far and to the near,” says the LORD,
“and I will heal him.
20 But the wicked are like the tossing sea;
for it cannot be quiet,
and its waters toss up mire and dirt.
21 There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
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"Saving faith is wanting Jesus" ~ Are you loving His appearing or this present world?Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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