Week 9 Psalm 57
A Sunday prayer for pray-ers in the city on the Dnieper…
Please have mercy on all of us today Lord. And please have mercy on me
We’re surrounded by an army with rifles and tanks…I feel like I’m alone in a boreal forest on a moonless night hearing the howls of a wolf pack getting closer…
Our enemies tricked us…trapped us…isolated us. Now they’re here to take our city…overrun our country…
I’ll do whatever I can under the circumstances…but in the end I know my real refuge and hope is you and I’m going to depend on you until this disaster has passed
Lord…you’re higher than the heavens…you transcend the world
You’re the only sanctuary my soul has
Inside me – in my spirit – I’m confident in you
I’m even going to sing to you…I’m going to get together some instrumentalists and we’ll sing your praises together
I’m certain that your gigantic love is operating
I know your faithfulness outshines everything else
I’m asking you to show us that gigantic love…that excelling faithfulness
Lord…like I said before you’re higher than the heavens…you transcend the world
Please help us. Please rescue us from our adversaries.
Note: this is a reorganized & paraphrased prayer from Psalm 57…put together in this order of verses: 1 4 6 1 5 1 7 7-9 10 3 11 3