Daily Prayer, Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Let all who are faithful

 offer prayer to you.

Morning

Invitatory Psalm 84

How lovely is your dwelling place,

O Lord of hosts!

My soul longs, indeed it faints

   for the courts of the Lord;

my heart and my flesh sing for joy

    to the living God.

Even the sparrow finds a home,

and the swallow a nest for herself,

   where she may lay her young,

  at your altars,

O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.

Happy are those who live in your house,

  ever singing your praise. Selah

….

O Lord of hosts,

   happy is everyone who trusts in you.

Psalm 9

I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;

I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.

I will be glad and exult in you;

….

You judge the world with righteousness;

you judge the peoples with equity.

The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,

   a stronghold in times of trouble.

And those who know your name put their trust in you,

   for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

….

Be gracious to me, O Lord.

See what I suffer from those who hate me;

you are the one who lifts me up

   from the gates of death,

so that I may recount all your praises,

   and, in the gates of daughter Zion,

   rejoice in your deliverance.

….

For the needy shall not always be forgotten,

   nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

….

Psalm 10

Why, O Lord, do you stand far off?

Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

In arrogance the wicked persecute the poor

   — let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.

For the wicked boast of the desires of their heart,

  those greedy for gain curse and renounce the Lord.

In the pride of their countenance the wicked say,

   “God will not seek it out”;

….

they lurk in secret like a lion in its covert;

they lurk that they may seize the poor;

they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.

They stoop, they crouch,

   and the helpless fall by their might.

They think in their heart,

   “God has forgotten,

    he has hidden his face,

       he will never see it.”

Rise up, O Lord;

O God, lift up your hand; do not forget the oppressed.

Why do the wicked renounce God, and say in their hearts,

   “You will not call us to account”?

But you do see! Indeed you note trouble and grief,

   that you may take it into your hands;

the helpless commit themselves to you;       

   you have been the helper of the orphan.

….

O Lord, you will hear the desire of the meek;

you will strengthen their heart, you will incline your ear

to do justice for the orphan and the oppressed,

   so that those from earth may strike terror no more.

Daily Lectionary Reading, Luke 7:40-47

40 Jesus replied, “ Simon, I have something to say to you. ” “ Teacher, speak, ” he said. 41 “ A certain lender had two debtors. One owed enough money to pay five hundred people for a day’s work. [q] The other owed enough money for fifty. [r] 42 When they couldn’t pay, the lender forgave the debts of them both. Which of them will love him more? ” 43 Simon replied, “ I suppose the one who had the largest debt canceled. ” Jesus said, “ You have judged correctly. ” 44 Jesus turned to the woman and said to Simon, “ Do you see this woman? When I entered your home, you didn’t give me water for my feet, but she wet my feet with tears and wiped them with her hair. 45 You didn’t greet me with a kiss, but she hasn’t stopped kissing my feet since I came in. 46 You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but she has poured perfumed oil on my feet. 47 This is why I tell you that her many sins have been forgiven; so she has shown great love. The one who is forgiven little loves little. ”
_________________________________________________ q Or five hundred denaria r Or fifty (denaria

[Common English Bible]

Prayer for Today: Lord, help us to respond to the kindness you have shown us. Amen.

Midday Psalm 119:9-16

How can young people keep their way pure?

   By guarding it according to your word.

With my whole heart I seek you;

do not let me stray from your commandments.

I treasure your word in my heart,

   so that I may not sin against you.

Blessed are you, O Lord; teach me your statutes.

With my lips I declare all the ordinances of your mouth.

I delight in the way of your decrees as much as in all riches.

I will meditate on your precepts, and fix my eyes on your ways.

I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.

Evening

Psalm 11

In the Lord I take refuge;

   how can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to the mountains;

   for look, the wicked bend the bow,

   they have fitted their arrow to the string,

   to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart.

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord’s throne is in heaven.

His eyes behold, his gaze examines humankind.

The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked,

   and his soul hates the lover of violence.

….

For the Lord is righteous; he loves righteous deeds;

    the upright shall behold his face.

Psalm 14

Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.”

They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds;

    there is no one who does good.

The Lord looks down from heaven on humankind

   to see if there are any who are wise, who seek after God.

They have all gone astray, they are all alike perverse;

   there is no one who does good, no, not one.

Have they no knowledge,

   all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread,

   and do not call upon the Lord?

There they shall be in great terror,

   for God is with the company of the righteous.

You would confound the plans of the poor,

    but the Lord is their refuge.

….

Psalm 15

O Lord, who may abide in your tent?

Who may dwell on your holy hill?

Those who walk blamelessly,

    and do what is right,

    and speak the truth from their heart;

    who do not slander with their tongue,

    and do no evil to their friends,

    nor take up a reproach against their neighbors;

    in whose eyes the wicked are despised,

    but who honor those who fear the Lord;

    who stand by their oath even to their hurt;

    who do not lend money at interest,

     and do not take a bribe against the innocent.

Those who do these things shall never be moved.

Psalm 16

Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge.

I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;

I have no good apart from you.”

….

The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup;

you hold my lot.

The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;

I have a goodly heritage.

I bless the Lord who gives me counsel;

in the night also my heart instructs me.

I keep the Lord always before me;

  because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices;

   my body also rests secure.

For you do not give me up to Sheol,

   or let your faithful one see the Pit.

You show me the path of life.

In your presence there is fullness of joy;

in your right hand are pleasures forevermore.