Free & Fit - Falling in Love with the Psalms - Wednesday 16th October Psalm 146
Falling in Love with the Psalms
Wednesday 16th October Psalm 146
Opening Prayer
Help us as a Humanity to welcome each other into community. To not isolate, diminish or remove each other from including them in community opportunities or family gatherings or to be without Freinds meeting together. Please help us to be more selfless than selfish, more forgiving than forgetful and more caring than careless in Jesus name. Amen
Psalm 146 Memory Verse
“Don’t put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there. When they breathe their last, they return to the earth, and all their plans die with them.”
Psalms 146:3-4 NLT
Psalm & Reflection:
We will soon be approaching the US election. This is my third round of electoral voting for a major Presidential Candidacy and new leader at the White House. When I arrived in December 2016 it was a change from Barrack Obama to Donald Trump and then in 2020 Joe Biden became President. This year seems a very close election with both candidates neck and neck. It is not in my own wheel house to tell you which way you should vote, but John Wesley had a pretty good response to this question.
“The Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are weighed down. The Lord loves the godly.”
Psalms 146:8 NLT
The temptation to speak evil of those with whom we disagree politically is not new. John Wesley was concerned about it in the 18th century. Wesley had some wisdom for the people called Methodists, I myself am a Free Methodist Pastor, and he encouraged them to think differently as they considered the candidates for whom they would vote.
As we head into the elections next month, we would do well to follow his advice. Wesley had three points to keep in mind, which he recorded in his journal from October 6, 1774.
He wrote: “I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them
To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy:
To speak no evil of the person they voted against: And,
To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.
Make sure you vote. Don’t speak evil of your opponents. Keep a generous spirit toward those who disagree with you. Three essential elements of healthy and constructive political engagement as Christians help us to remain healthy and Holy in an election season. Let us pray…
Eternal Father, you gave to your incarnate Son the holy name of Jesus to be the sign of our salvation: Plant in every heart, we pray, the love of him who is the Savior of the world, our Lord Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.
A Covenant Prayer from John Wesley
I am no longer my own, but yours.
Put me to what you will, place me with whom you will.
Put me to doing, put me to suffering.
Let me be put to work for you or set aside for you,
Praised for you or criticized for you.
Let me be full, let me be empty.
Let me have all things, let me have nothing.
I freely and fully surrender all things to your glory and service.
And now, O wonderful and holy God,
Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer,
you are mine, and I am yours.
So be it.
And the covenant which I have made on earth,
Let it also be made in heaven.
In Jesus name.
Amen.
“So it is good to wait quietly for salvation from the Lord.”
Lamentations 3:26 NLT
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