Praise the Lord!! It is Sunday again and our fifth Feast Day!! On this Lord’s Day, enjoy worshiping with your church family through songs and hymns, through the reading and teaching of God’s Word, through giving cheerfully, and enjoying the blessed gift of food, chocolate, social media, or anything you may have set aside for your Lenten promise.
Moments of Prayer
Are there things, people or issues of justice that plague you in prayer? Does it seem that at times that God has turned a deaf ear to your voice and pleas for help? In today’s moment of prayer Jesus shares through a parable the importance of praying persistently, even when it seems that God does not hear or answer.
Read Luke 18:1-8
The introduction of the parable serves as the guide to its interpretation, “Now he told them a parable on the need for them to pray always and not give up.” (v 1) A widow woman had been regularly coming to a judge, begging for justice for a personal situation. Finally, after many trips to his courtroom, the judge agreed to her request and granted mercy and justice. Similarly, we are to pray persistently for justice for God’s people, as the woman pleaded with the judge for justice.
From God’s perspective, justice will come to his elect speedily. From a human perspective, of course, justice may seem to be a long time coming. Therefore God’s people must persist in prayer, as the widow persisted until she received justice
Lord Have Mercy (For What We Have Done) | Lyric Video | Logos Church | Matt Papa
Lord Have Mercy (For What We Have Done)
by Keith & Kristyn Getty, Matt Boswell, Matt Papa & Sandra McCracken
For what we have done and left undone
We fall on Your countless mercies
For sins that are known and those unknown
We call on Your name so holy
For envy and pride, for closing our eyes
For scorning our very neighbor
In thought, word, and deed we’ve failed You our King
How deeply we need a Savior
Chorus
Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy
Lord have mercy on us
Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy
Lord have mercy on us
For what You have done Your life of love
You perfеctly lived we praise You
Though tеmpted and tried You fixed Your eyes
You finished the work God gave You
And there on the tree A King among thieves
You bled for a world’s betrayal
You loved to the end Our merciful friend
How pure and forever faithful
Chorus
Bridge
For hearts that are cold for seizing control
For scorning our very Maker
In thought, word, and deed we’ve failed You our King
How deeply we need a Savior
Chorus
