Father we praise you that you have spoken and it was done. We thank you that your plans to redeem a people for yourself was done for the purpose of showing your greater Love, when we fell into sin. So that we are always obligated to seek your greater love over our need to have a love of our own. For when we go through trials then we are pointed to eternity through our longing to be loved with an everlasting love. And if we do not regard all of these trials as a taking away the longing of things that do not have value in seeing your greatness, then we would be hopeless, since you have prepared more than we can ask or think, beyond this short life. Oh Father, your speaking your salvation makes us to want to seek your face, since You have brought redemption and we only have brought our sins. How we see the contrast between our hate and your love for us. We long to be revived in this way, so that we will be led to praise you and extol you night and day. For we find our greatest longings as the only way that we that we can rest in your greater love.

Grant us a rest from our enemies and from these real threats that come from our circumstances and the cities in which we live. For we know that the innocent and the helpless cry from their pain since they have been under the burdens of men who have made laws to punish the helpless. And since we know that you have come to the aid of your people, that you are close to their cries. For when we come before you, we come as men who have nor righteous plea, we come by your mercy. And we only come knowing that you are the only one who can restore peace in our cities. For your righteousness is open to all who come with nothing but their sin. Grant us rest from our own works so that we can obey you with your keeping power. Oh Lord, keep us from willful sins, because when we come to you and praise you all day long we are most satisfied. For your springs of life and truth come from your throne, and in your lite we see lite. So that we are glad to sit at your table and feast on the reveal word, that word that enlightens our eyes and causes us to walk with Christ as your disciples did on the road . For their hearts did burn within them. May we be made to speak to the congregation from a heart that is on fire. May it come because we do not feel the assaults of men, but we experience a rest in the living God. Alone. Oh Father, we long to long to be made to rest in your greater love. For we know that when we are rewarded, it will be because you have extended your grace and mercy to us out of your greater love, and we are helpless to stand before you as righteous in ourselves. For we are melted by that knowledge of living face to face with you in eternity.