This is an intense and honest dive into one of the most deep and confusing experiences that we face as humans, the fact that God so often seems to hide his face from us. This is most intensely experienced by Jesus on the cross crying: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?!" The Bible does not gloss over anything, not the faults of God's people, nor even this seeming lack of care on God's part. It is however clear from the Bible that no matter how far off God can seem, he is never far off, he is right here with us. Today we grap a hold of that fact and come before him with great faith and boldness asking for miracles of body and soul healing! Let's pray!
Our prayers from Psalm 6 are:
1. Healing of our bodies
2. Healing of our souls
This video is made by Praying the Bible, author is Elon Jepsen.
Part of the Praying the Psalms Series.
Every video in the Praying the Psalms series opens up the daily psalm with a short introduction that connects the psalm with our lives today, followed by a reading of the psalm. Then we go into the actual prayer time by drawing out two prayer topics that are present in the psalm. With each topic there will be a minute of silence, where we all pray together in our own words or thoughts or by writing in the comment section. The videos conclude with a powerful closing ritual consisting of a prayer, The Lord's Prayer / The Our Father and finally The Blessing spoken over you and your family followed by you speaking The Blessing over your neighbourhood, your nation and the world.
We choose the music to our videos by the rythms and moods we think best accompanies the theme of the psalm being prayed. Sometimes the music is composed by Christian artists and sometimes not. There is a very long tradition at least heading back to reformers like Martin Luther and John Calvin in the 16th century and on to John and Charles Wesley i the 18th of taking popular pub and drinking songs and turning them into Christian praise songs and hymns. The Gospel has always been preached this way, most notably going back to the opening of the Gospel of John: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." The term "the Word" is the greek term "logos". This term was used in greek philosophy and religious thought to designate the "divine reason". So it is a religious term used in a different religous world and practice, but John redefines it to designate Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
The accompanying song today is called "Dreamcather". A dreamcather is a religious artefact used by native American Indians to protect from bad dreams and evil spirits. Like John did, we redefine the dreamcather to refer to the Logos, The Son of God, Jesus Christ, our Saviour and Protector. The only truly effective Dreamcatcher.
God bless you as you join in this prayer time accompanied by the beautiful music by Onycs.
The music in the video is:
Dreamcatcher by Onycs
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