Praying and Reading the Psalms #02

It is a bit old school, but I think it is really important to plan ahead and be ready for our Sunday services. I believe that God is drawing us together for encouragement and transformation. One small way that you can get ready is to pray the Psalms.
In my previous post, I asked you think about what it would be like to pray the Psalms with Jesus. So here is an effort to do just that using Psalm 15 to prepare our hearts for Sunday: “Lord, who dwell in your sanctuary? Father, I know my own life Righteous? I can’t even use this word with a straight face. Who can dwell in the sanctuary? I love to be here. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. I feel the weight of all their sins here. Even my brother who is praying right now. Here – he is made righteous and can find newness and life. By dwelling with Us, he can learn: I am ready to share everything with him and invite everyone that he knows My Father, May they all come and find life and hope when they worship together. This is my prayer – Amen.
Scripture says –
Who may live on your holy hill?
He whose walk is blameless
And who does what is righteous,
Who speaks truth from his heart
And has no slander on his tongue . . . ” (Psalm 15:2-3)I say -
The choices that I’ve made this week
Both for you and against you
My walk is far from blameless.
Truth? Has that been what is in my heart?
I don’t even understand myself.
I’m much more like Jonah – the prophet who ran the other way.
Jonah who knew exactly what he was supposed to do
And fled.Jesus says -
I feel complete and entirely at rest on the holy hill
That’s not to say that the holy hill – where the cross is jabbed into the Earth that I made
Is without pain.
But I love him and I want him to know that my holiness, my purity
Covers all his faults.
I welcome him to Your Holy Hill – into our presence.
When He worships, he is not covered over with guilt.
Here, he is free and can change as he listens to Us.
How to treat others –
How to keep his word – even when it hurts.
How to stand for truth and for those who are innocent.
To find life.
Make every space sacred and pure.
Cover over them and make them new. Even this weekend –



