2Samuel 8,9; 2Corinthians 2; Ezekiel 16; Psalms 58,59

prayer arising:

Thank You for Your kindness, O Lord; thank You that when our souls are crippled You come and You find us and You restore us and we eat at Your table, always, as a son of God, even though we are crippled. Your care precedes my knowing of You; You grow me to know You through the gifts of living - do not let me displace Your love to me with the gifts that come through Your love. But when I fall let me always hear the promise of Your grace of return, and in humility give out Your comfort to others that the purposes of another would be outwitted.

I am not equal to the task of bringing Christ - I pray Lord to be the fragrance of life to the people around me. Help me to sing of Your love, for You are my strength

Amen.