3 The legal experts and Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery. Placing her in the center of the group,
4 they said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery.
5 In the Law, Moses commanded us to stone women like this. What do you say?”
6 They said this to test him, because they wanted a reason to bring an accusation against him. Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
7 They continued to question him, so he stood up and replied, “Whoever hasn’t sinned should throw the first stone.”
John 8:3-7 CEB
Jackie
Prayer for the Nations 11-16-22
1 The earth is the LORD’s and everything in it, the world and its inhabitants too.
2 Because God is the one who established it on the seas; God set it firmly on the waters.
3 Who can ascend the LORD’s mountain? Who can stand in his holy sanctuary?
4 Only the one with clean hands and a pure heart; the one who hasn’t made false promises, the one who hasn’t sworn dishonestly.
5 That kind of person receives blessings from the LORD and righteousness from the God who saves.
Psalm 24:1-5 CEB
Prayer for the Nations 11-15-22
3 Why do you see the splinter that’s in your brother’s or sister’s eye, but don’t notice the log in your own eye?
4 How can you say to your brother or sister, ‘Let me take the splinter out of your eye,’ when there’s a log in your eye?
5 You deceive yourself! First take the log out of your eye, and then you’ll see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother’s or sister’s eye.
Matthew 7:3-5 CEB
Prayer for the Nations 11-14-22
43 “You have heard that it was said, You must love your neighborp and hate your enemy.
44 But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who harass you
45 so that you will be acting as children of your Father who is in heaven. He makes the sun rise on both the evil and the good and sends rain on both the righteous and the unrighteous.
46 If you love only those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
47 And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing? Don’t even the Gentiles do the same?
48 Therefore, just as your heavenly Father is complete in showing love to everyone, so also you must be complete.
Matthew 5:43-48 CEB
Prayer for the Nations 11-13-22
7″Happy are people who show mercy, because they will receive mercy.
Matthew 5:7 CEB
Prayer for the Nations 11-12-22
14 if my people who belong to me will humbly pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
Prayer for the Nations 11-11-22
5C What does the LORD require?
6 With what should I approach the LORD and bow down before God on high? Should I come before him with entirely burned offerings, with year-old calves?
7Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with many torrents of oil? Should I give my oldest child for my crime; the fruit of my body for the sin of my spirit?
8He has told you, human one, what is good and what the LORD requires from you: to do justice, embrace faithful love, and walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6 5C-8 CEB
Prayer for the Nations 11-9-22
17 Though the fig tree doesn’t bloom, and there’s no produce on the vine; though the olive crop withers, and the fields don’t provide food; though the sheep are cut off from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls;
18 I will rejoice in the LORD. I will rejoice in the God of my deliverance.
19 The LORD God is my strength. He will set my feet like the deer. He will let me walk upon the heights.
Habakkuk 3:17-19 CEB
Prayer for the Nations 11-8-22
28 We know that God works all things together for good for the ones who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
29 We know this because God knew them in advance, and he decided in advance that they would be conformed to the image of his Son. That way his Son would be the first of many brothers and sisters.
30 Those who God decided in advance would be conformed to his Son, he also called. Those whom he called, he also made righteous. Those whom he made righteous, he also glorified.
Romans 8:28-30 CEB
Just reminding myself of this on election day, in case those I want to win don’t. Or do. He does all things well, per Mark 7:37. And this place, after all is said and done, isn’t our real home. May each day bring us all closer to conforming to the image of Jesus. Then we can truly be the light of the world and the salt of the earth.
Prayer for the Nations 11-7-22
Psalm 1 The truly happy person doesn’t follow wicked advice, doesn’t stand on the road of sinners, and doesn’t sit with the disrespectful.
2 Instead of doing those things, these persons love the LORD’s Instruction, and they recite God’s Instruction day and night!
3 They are like a tree replanted by streams of water, which bears fruit at just the right time and whose leaves don’t fade. Whatever they do succeeds.
Psalm 1:1-3 CEB