Day 10
It's Day 10 of prayer and fasting.
I sometimes like personalizing Scripture by inserting my name or realizing that all the Old Testament references to the Temple now refer to me--I am a temple of the Holy Spirit. I read Isaiah 62 today and substituted DC for Jerusalem. It makes for a pretty powerful prayer. Here's a compilation:
"Because I love DC, because my heart yearns for Washington, I cannot remain silent. I will not stop praying for her until her righteousness shines like the dawn, and her salvation blazes like a burning torch. Your new name will be the City of God's Delight and the Bride of God, for the Lord delights in you and will claim you as his own. O Washington, I have posted watchmen on your walls; they will pray to the Lord day and night for the fulfillment of his promises. Take no rest, all you who pray. Give the Lord no rest until he makes DC the object of praise throughout his earth."
I head off to Rocky Gap for our annual Inward Bound Retreat today. The timing is perfect. I came up with a formula a few years ago: change of place plus change of pace equals change of perspective. Jesus was always retreating and reentering. Can't wait to "steal away" with God this weekend.
I sometimes like personalizing Scripture by inserting my name or realizing that all the Old Testament references to the Temple now refer to me--I am a temple of the Holy Spirit. I read Isaiah 62 today and substituted DC for Jerusalem. It makes for a pretty powerful prayer. Here's a compilation:
"Because I love DC, because my heart yearns for Washington, I cannot remain silent. I will not stop praying for her until her righteousness shines like the dawn, and her salvation blazes like a burning torch. Your new name will be the City of God's Delight and the Bride of God, for the Lord delights in you and will claim you as his own. O Washington, I have posted watchmen on your walls; they will pray to the Lord day and night for the fulfillment of his promises. Take no rest, all you who pray. Give the Lord no rest until he makes DC the object of praise throughout his earth."
I head off to Rocky Gap for our annual Inward Bound Retreat today. The timing is perfect. I came up with a formula a few years ago: change of place plus change of pace equals change of perspective. Jesus was always retreating and reentering. Can't wait to "steal away" with God this weekend.
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