Actually these people who ‘have dreams’, defile flesh reject the authority-of-the-Lord and slander the glorious ones.
But Michael, the archangel, when he was arguing with the devil and disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to pronounce judgement for slander but he said: ‘May the Lord rebuke you.’ But these people – as many things they do not understand they slander – as many things that by instinct they understand like irrational animals by these things they are being destroyed
Thank you, dear Jesus, for all you have given me, for all you have taken away from me, for all you have left me.
And next (you will remember) the angels who did not keep to their own domain but left their proper dwelling he has kept for the judgement of the great day in eternal chains in deep darkness, And so too Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns around them in the same way as these lived immorally and went after flesh of another kind are displayed as evidence that is by undergoing eternal fire.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is discord, union; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy, For your mercy and for your truth’s sake. Amen
So I want to remind you, – who know all this: that once the Lord having saved the People from the Egyptians later destroyed those who did not believe.
O Lord Jesus Christ, stay beside me to defend me, within me to guide me, before me to lead me, and above me to bless me, that with you and in you, I may live, and move and have my being, for ever and ever. Amen.
Judah1, a slave of Jesus Christ, a brother of Jacob2, to those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ;
Mercy to you all, and peace and may love be multiplied!
Beloved, making all speed to write to you all about our common salvation I had need to write to you encouraging you to continue to struggle for the faith which was passed onto the saints once-and-for-all
For certain people have slipped in, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation -godless who are changing the grace of our God, into immorality and denying our only master and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Steer the ship of my life, good Lord, to your quiet harbour, where I can be safe from the storms of sin and conflict. Show me the course I should take. Renew in me the gift of discernment, so that I can always see the right direction in which I should go. And give me the strength and the courage to choose the right course, even when the sea is rough and the waves are high, knowing that through enduring hardship and danger in your name we shall find comfort and peace. Amen
1There, bless Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, you who stand in Yahweh’s house at night. 2Raise your hands to the sacred place and bless Yahweh.
3May Yahweh bless you from Tsiyyon – the one who is maker of heavens and earth.
Lord God,, you feed us with the living bread from heaven; you renew our faith, increase our hope, and strengthen our love.
Teach us to hunger for Christ who is the true and living bread, and to live by every word that comes from your mouth, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
1There, how good and how lovely is brothers living as one, 2Like good oil on the head, going down on to the beard, Aharon’s beard, which goes down on the collar of his clothes, 3Like the dew of Hermon, which goes down on the mountains of Tsiyyon. Because there Yahweh ordered blessing, life for evermore.
O thou, who art the light of the minds that know thee, the life of the souls that love thee, and the strength of the wills that serve thee; help us so to know thee that we may truly love thee; so to love thee that we may fully serve thee, whom to serve is perfect freedom. Amen
1Yahweh, be mindful for David of all his being humbled, 2In that he swore to Yahweh, pledged to Ya’aqob’s Champion, 3‘If I come into my tent, my house, if I climb into my bed, my couch, 4If I give sleep to my eyes, slumber to my eyelids, 5Until I find the place belonging to Yahweh, the dwelling belonging to Ya’aqob’s Champion . . .’
6There, we heard of it at Ephrata, we found it in the Ya’ar fields. 7Let’s come to his dwelling, let’s bow low to his footstool. 8Rise, Yahweh, to your place, to settle down, you and your powerful chest. 9Your priests put on faithfulness, the people who are committed to you resound. 10For the sake of David your servant, don’t turn back the face of your anointed one.
11Yahweh swore to David in truthfulness; he will not turn back from it: ‘One from the fruit of your body I will put on your throne. 12If your sons keep my pact, my affirmations that I will teach them, For all time their sons also will sit on your throne. 13Because Yahweh chose Tsiyyon, which he wanted as a seat for himself. 14For all time this is my place to settle down, where I will sit, because I wanted it. 15Its supplies I will greatly bless; its needy people I will fill with bread. 16Its priests I will clothe with deliverance, its committed people will resound loudly. 17There I will make David’s horn flourish; I am setting up a lamp for my anointed one. 18Its enemies I will clothe in shame, but on him his crown will sparkle.’
O thou, who art the light of the minds that know thee, the life of the souls that love thee, and the strength of the wills that serve thee; help us so to know thee that we may truly love thee; so to love thee that we may fully serve thee, whom to serve is perfect freedom. Amen
1Yahweh, my mind has not been lofty, my eyes have not looked high. I haven’t gone about with big ideas or extraordinary deeds beyond me. 2No rather I have conformed and quietened my entire being . . . Like someone nursed with its mother, so my entire being is nursed with me.
3Yisra’el, wait for Yahweh, now and for evermore.
Steer the ship of my life, good Lord, to your quiet harbour, where I can be safe from the storms of sin and conflict. Show me the course I should take. Renew in me the gift of discernment, so that I can always see the right direction in which I should go. And give me the strength and the courage to choose the right course, even when the sea is rough and the waves are high, knowing that through enduring hardship and danger in your name we shall find comfort and peace. Amen
1From the depths I have called you, Yahweh: 2Lord, listen to my voice. May your ears become attentive to the sound of my prayers for grace.
3If you keep watch on wayward acts, Yah: Lord, who can stand? 4Because with you there is pardon, in order that you may be held in awe.
5I have hoped for Yahweh, my entire being has hoped. For his word I have waited, 6my entire being for the Lord, More than people keeping watch for the morning, people keeping watch for the morning.
7Yisra’el, wait for Yahweh, because with Yahweh there is commitment. With him the redemption will be great, 8when he himself redeems Yisra’el from all its wayward acts.
Take from us, O God, all pride and vanity, all boasting and self-assertion, and give us the true courage that shows itself in gentleness, the true wisdom that shows itself in simplicity, and the true power that shows itself in modesty.
1People have attacked me much since my youth, Yisra’el is pleased to say, 2People have attacked me much, though not prevailed over me.
3Over my back ploughmen have ploughed; they made long furrows. 4Yahweh is faithful; he cut through the ropes of the faithless people.
5May they be shamed and may they turn backwards, all the people who are hostile to Tsiyyon. 6May they become like the grass on roofs that withers before someone has plucked it, 7With which a reaper has not filled his fist, or a gatherer his arm, 8And passers-by have not said, ‘Yahweh’s blessing on you; we bless you in Yahweh’s name.’
O thou, who art the light of the minds that know thee, the life of the souls that love thee, and the strength of the wills that serve thee; help us so to know thee that we may truly love thee; so to love thee that we may fully serve thee, whom to serve is perfect freedom. Amen
