"When All They Mercies, O My God" - 4 May 2025
Lord,
you once asked this question, and then replied to it: “Can a woman forget
her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you
on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me” (Isaiah 49:15-16).
To think that you have inscribed us onto your hands with the ink of indelible
grace, never to forget us or lose us! Amazing pity, grace unknown and love
beyond degree! “When all your mercies, O my God, my rising soul surveys,
transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love, and praise” (Trinity Hymnal
#56.1).
Give
ear, O Lord, as we implore your mercy and care for your one, holy, catholic and
apostolic Church, this congregation, and Oak
Street Baptist, Paradise, Pecan Valley, and Philippine Baptist Church, as well as Dan and Becky Young, and their
work with their work with the American and Mexican Presbyterian Churches at the
Texas/Mexican border.
Take notice of where your church has been bloodied; give relief where she is
depleted; provide correction where she was tumbled off the path; raise her up
where she lies in the dust; encourage her where she faithfully fulfills her
vocation; so that your church can forever say, “When all your mercies, O my
God, my rising soul surveys, transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder,
love, and praise.”
Give
ear, O Lord, as we implore your mercy and care for these United States of
America; for all residents who out of many are made one – E Pluribus Unum;
and for all of our leaders. Bring
us to be a people who speak the truth to one another; who render in our gates
judgments that are true and make for peace; who do not devise evil in our
hearts, through social media, or in our broadcasts against one another, and
love no false oath, for all these things you hate, O LORD (Zechariah 8:16-17). Make
us a nation that rejoices in you and will ever sing “When all your mercies,
O my God, my rising soul surveys, transported with the view I’m lost, in
wonder, love, and praise.”
Give
ear, O Lord, as we implore your mercy and care for the nations and leaders of
the world. Make firm all legitimate causes of justice and goodness; resolve the
conflicts and preserve humaneness. Rebuild the homes and habitats that have
been decimated by wars and cataclysmic tragedies, and hasten the day when all
nations, tribes, tongues and peoples will raise their voices praising you, “When
all your mercies, O my God, my rising soul surveys, transported with the view
I’m lost, in wonder, love, and praise.”
Give ear, O Lord, as we implore your mercy and care for those in weakened or worsened conditions (…). Visit them in their need that all their days they may declare, “When all your mercies, O my God, my rising soul surveys, transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love, and praise.”
We securely settle our petitions into your hands in the name of Christ, and now we join all of our requests together to pray as we have been taught: Our Father…
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