Oct.10.02: Lftd - " Father, Hear The Prayer We Offer"

-- Romans 12:12 (NIVUS)
"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer."

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Father, hear the prayer we offer.
Not for ease that prayer shall be,
But for strength that we may ever
Live our lives courageously.

Not forever in green pastures
Do we ask our way to be,
But the steep and rugged pathway
My we tread rejoicingly.

Not forever by still waters
Would we idly quiet stay,
But would smite the living fountains
From the rocks along the way.

Be our strength in hours of weakness;
In our wanderings be our guide;
Through endeavor, failure, danger,
Father, be thou at our side.

Amen.

-- Love M. Willis

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-- Jeremiah 33:3 (NIVUS)
"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great
and unsearchable things you do not know."

-- Jeremiah 29:
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD,
"plans to prosper you and not to harm you,
plans to give you hope and a future.
12 Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me,
and I will listen to you.
13 You will seek Me and find Me
when you seek Me with all your heart."

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