Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
17 AUGUST 2018
1. Introduction : -
2. Opening Song : Here I am Lord
Reff :
Here I am Lord, is it I Lord. I have heard You calling in
the night.
I will go Lord, if You lead me. I will hold your people in
my heart.
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3. Opening Prayer
Psalm 51
Antifon :
You alone I have grieved by my sin; have pity on me
O Lord.
Have mercy on me, God in your kindness.
In your compassion blot out my offense.
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O wash me more and more from my guilt
And cleanse me from my sin.
My offenses truly I know them;
My sin is always before me.
Against you, you alone, have I sinned;
What is evil in your sight I have done.
That you may be justified when you give sentence
And be without reproach when you judge.
O see, in guilt I was born, a sinner was I conceived.
Indeed, you love truth in the heart;
Then in the secret of my heart teach me wisdom.
O purify me, then I shall be clean;
O wash me, I shall be whiter than snow.
Make me hear rejoicing and gladness,
That the bones you have crushed may revive.
From my sins turn away your face
And blot out all my guilt.
A pure heart create for me, o God,
Put a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from your presence,
Nor deprive me of your holy spirit.
Give me again the joy of your help;
With a spirit of fervor sustain me.
That I may teach transgressors your ways
And sinners may return to you.
O rescue me, God, my helper,
And my tongue shall ring out your goodness
O Lord open my lips and my mouth shall declare your
praise.
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For in sacrifice you take no delight,
Burnt offering from me you would refuse,
My sacrifice, a contrite spirit.
A humbled, contrite heart you will not spurn.
In your goodness, show favor to Zion:
Rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
Then you will be pleased with lawful sacrifice
Holocaust offered on your altar.
Glory be ...
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7 You began your race well; who came to obstruct you
and stop you obeying the truth?
8 It was certainly not any prompting from him who called
you!
9 A pinch of yeast ferments the whole batch.
10 But I feel sure that, united in the Lord, you will not be led
astray, and that anyone who makes trouble with
you will be condemned, no matter who he is.
11 And I, brothers -- if I were still preaching circumcision,
why should I still be persecuted? For then the obstacle
which is the cross would have no point any more.
12 I could wish that those who are unsettling you would go
further and mutilate themselves.
13 After all, brothers, you were called to be free; do not use
your freedom as an opening for self-indulgence, but be
servants to one another in love,
14 since the whole of the Law is summarised in the one
commandment: You must love your neighbour as
yourself.
15 If you go snapping at one another and tearing one
another to pieces, take care: you will be eaten up by one
another.
16 Instead, I tell you, be guided by the Spirit, and
you will no longer yield to self- indulgence.
17 The desires of self-indulgence are always in opposition
to the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are in
opposition to self-indulgence: they are opposites, one
against the other; that is how you are prevented from
doing the things that you want to.
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18 But when you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the
Law.
19 When self-indulgence is at work the results are obvious:
sexual vice, impurity, and sensuality,
20 the worship of false gods and sorcery; antagonisms and
rivalry, jealousy, bad temper and quarrels,
disagreements,
21 factions and malice, drunkenness, orgies and all such
things. And about these, I tell you now as I have told you
in the past, that people who behave in these
ways will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 On the other hand the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness,
23 gentleness and self-control; no law can touch such
things as these.
24 All who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified self with all
its passions and its desires.
25 Since we are living by the Spirit, let our behaviour be
guided by the Spirit
26 and let us not be conceited or provocative and envious
of one another.
5. Personal Reflection.
Intersection
You have given the sick and the suffering a share in your
cross, give them patience and strength. Let us pray to the
Lord ...
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Prayer for our nation
Reff :
Yahweh’s people dance for joy, o come before the Lord
And play for Him on glad tambourines,
And let the trumpet sound.