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PRAYERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT – PART 1

Adonai Yeshua Moshiach, You commanded us to love our enemies, those who defame and injure us and to pray for them and forgive them. We know that You prayed for Your enemies, who crucified You. Grant us we pray, the spirit of Christian/Messianic reconciliation and meekness, that we may forgive every injury and be reconciled with our enemies. Help us to overcome ill will and personal offence with Christian meekness and true love of our neighbour. We further ask You, O Adonai, to grant to our enemies true peace and forgiveness of sins. Do not allow them to leave this life without true faith and sincere conversion. And help us to repay evil with goodness and to remain safe from the temptations of the Devil and from all the perils that threaten us in the form of visible and invisible enemies. (Matthew 5).

Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, forever and ever. Amen. (Matthew 6:9-13).

O my YHVH, Your loving providence transforms sorrows, difficulties, trials and dangers into means of grace, lessons of patience and channels of hope. Grant us good will to use and not abuse those privileges. By Your great goodness, keep us alive through this dying life, that out of death You may raise us up to immortality. For His sake Who is the life, Yeshua Moshiach our Saviour. (Matthew 10).

Dearest Adonai, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve You as You deserve; To give and not to count the cost, To fight and not to heed the wounds, To toil and not to seek rest, To labour and not to seek reward, Save that of knowing that I am doing Your will. (Matthew 16).

I give You thanks, Adonai Yeshua: In the midst of my trials and sufferings You have granted me the strength not to waver; by Your mercy, You have given me a share of glory eternal. Adonai Yeshua Moshiach, Your compassion caused You to suffer to save the world. May the heavens open and the angels receive my spirit, for I am suffering for You and Your church in this place. I beseech You, merciful Adonai, please take me to Yourself. And strengthen the faith of Your servants who remain. (Matthew 20).

Adonai Eloheinu, merciful and mighty: Help those whom I have neglected to help; Set aright those whom I have caused to stumble; Visit those whom I have neglected to visit; Bring back home those I have led astray; Cheer the hearts of those whom I have made sad; Draw with cords of love those for whom my love has grown cold. Save them all, O Adonai and have mercy upon me. (Matthew 25).

We have seen the resurrection of Moshiach; let us worship the Holy Adonai Yeshua, Who alone is without sin. We praise and glorify Your Holy resurrection. For You are our YHVH; we know no other, save for You. Upon Your Name we call. Come, all faithful ones, let us adore the holy resurrection of Moshiach, for through the Cross, joy has come to the entire world. Ever blessing our Adonai, we sing praises of His resurrection. He endured the cross on our behalf and has destroyed death by death. (Matthew 28).

He lay with quiet heart in the stern asleep; Waking, commanded both the winds and the sea. Moshiach, though this weary body slumber deep, Grant that my heart may keep its watch with Thee. O Lamb of YHVH that carried all our sin, guard my sleep against the enemy. (Mark 4).

O YHVH, who has taught us to seek first Your Kingdom and its righteousness, teach me to say, “Your will be done” before I say “Give me my daily bread.” Teach me to accept Your will as the foundation of my happiness, and other things as only its superstructure. I am more afraid of the hunger of the body than of the hunger of the spirit. Convince me that it would not profit me to gain the world and lose my soul. Show me that it is only the possession of my soul that makes the possession of the world any gain. Impress me with the truth that no thing can bring me joy if I myself am not already joyful. Inspire me with the knowledge that the issues of life are not from without but from within. Guide me into the discovery that the pleasures at Your right hand are the only things that are pleasures forevermore. (Mark 8).

It is right and proper that we should give You praise and hymns and glory, O uncreated Father of Yeshua Moshiach, Who is Your only Son. We praise You because You are known by the only Son, proclaimed and explained by Him to created beings and known in turn by them. We praise You because You know the Son and reveal to the saints the glories that are His. We praise You because You are known by the Word You begot and are seen by the saints and understood by them after a fashion. Holy, holy, holy is our Adonai of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of Your glory. Heaven is full, earth is full of Your wonderful glory. (Mark 11).

Almighty YHVH, You inspired Your servant Luke, the physician, to set forth in the Gospel the love and healing power of Your Son. Graciously continue in Your church the same power to love and heal, to the praise and glory of Your name, through Your Son, Yeshua Moshiach our Saviour and Adonai, who lives and reigns with You, in the unity of Ruach HaKodesh, one YHVH Elohim now and forever. (Luke 1).

I am not worthy, Master and Adonai, that You should come beneath the roof of my soul: Yet since You in Your love toward all wish to dwell in me, in boldness I come. Open the gates, which You alone have forged; and You will come in with love toward all as is Your nature; You will come in and enlighten my darkened reason. I believe that You will do this: For You did not send away the harlot that came to You with tears; nor cast out the repentant publican; nor reject the thief who acknowledged Your kingdom; nor forsake the repentant persecutor, a yet greater act; but all of those who came to You in repentance were counted in the band of Your friends, who alone abide blessed forever, now and unto the endless ages. (Luke 5).

O YHVH, our Heavenly Father, who loves humankind and is most merciful and compassionate, have mercy upon our children. We humbly pray for them and commend them to Your gracious protection. O YHVH, be their guide and guardian in all their endeavours. Lead them in the path of Your truth and draw them near to You, that they may lead a godly and righteous life in Your love and fear, doing Your will in all matters. Give them grace that they may be even-tempered, hard-working, diligent, devout, and charitable. Defend them against the assaults of the enemy, and grant them wisdom and strength to resist all temptation and corruption of this life. Direct them in the way of salvation, through Your Son, our Saviour --- Yeshua Moshiach. (Luke 8).

Almighty YHVH, whose Son, our Saviour, Yeshua Moshiach, was lifted high upon the cross that He might draw the whole world to Himself: Mercifully grant that we, who rejoice in the mystery of our salvation, may have the grace to take up our cross and follow Him, who reigns with You and Ruach HaKodesh, one YHVH in glory everlasting. (Luke 14).

Adonai Yeshua Moshiach, Son of YHVH, have mercy on me, a sinner. (Luke 18).

Father Everlasting, who has given us the fellowship of Your Son, Yeshua Moshiach, be near us in this hour of solemn meditation. May our heart be open to every Holy affection and ready to receive and cherish every sacred memory and sacred impression. Impress on us the power of death that this day commemorates. Let a portion of the Spirit that led our Saviour to the cross descend upon us and fill our heart with love for You and our fellow humans. Here and now may every selfish passion and desire be quieted, and may the peace that passes all understanding keep our heart and mind in Yeshua Moshiach. (Luke 23).

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He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.
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But at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.
Joshua 10:27

Joshua respected the image of God in his defeated enemies. Although he treated them spitefully, he treated God's image in their corpses with respect when he took them down from the trees on which they had been hung and buried them as God commanded in Deuteronomy 21:22-23.

PRAYERS QUOTING OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS – PART 6

Almighty and everlasting YHVH, the comfort of the sad, the strength of sufferers, let the prayers of those that cry out of any tribulation come to You, that all may rejoice to find that Your mercy is present with them in their afflictions. Through Yeshua Moshiach our Saviour. (Jeremiah 31).

Show me, O Adonai, Your mercy, and delight my heart with it. Let me find You, whom I so longingly seek. See, here is the man whom the robbers seized, mishandled, and left half dead on the road to Jericho. O kind-hearted Samaritan, come to my aid! I am the sheep who wandered into the wilderness; seek after me, and bring me home again to Your fold. Do with me what You will, that I may stay with You all the days of my life and praise You with all those who are with You in heaven for all eternity. (Jeremiah 50)

In the hour of my distress, when temptations I oppress, and when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When I lie within my bed, Sick in heart and sick in head, and with doubts discomforted, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When the tapers now burn blue, and the comforters are few, and that number more than true, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When the Judgment is revealed and that opened which was sealed when to thee I have appealed Sweet Spirit, comfort me! (Lamentations 3).

O Adonai Eloheinu Almighty, redeem my soul from its bondage, that I may be free to live henceforth, not for myself, but for You. Help me to put away self, and to remember that this life is not given for my ease, my enjoyment. It is a schooling time for the eternal home You have prepared for those who love You. Keep my eye steadily fixed on that haven of rest and peace, that I may not be faint nor be weary from the length of the way, but may strive to walk worthy of my high calling in all meekness and lowliness of heart. (Ezekiel 11).

You are wisdom, uncreated and eternal, the supreme first cause, above all being, sovereign Godhead, sovereign goodness, watching unseen the YHVH-inspired wisdom of Messianic/Christian people. Raise us, we pray, that we may totally respond to the supreme, unknown, ultimate, and splendid height of Your words, mysterious and inspired. There all YHVH’s secret matters lie covered and hidden under darkness profound and brilliant, silent and wise. You make what is ultimate and beyond brightness secretly to shine in all that is most dark. (Ezekiel 43).

O Adonai, great is the glory you have received from those whom you in your mercy have called. Adonai, protect all of Your servants. Stay with them to the end, for they will then glorify Your Name for all eternity. (Daniel 3).

Almighty and Everlasting YHVH, prepare us by all the events of life for our great and final change, for we know not how soon it may come upon us. May every opportunity of Holy meditation, and of public, social, and secret prayer, call our mind from this earthly scene, that we may be fitted for that everlasting state. When the shadows of evening shall come upon us, when age and sickness arrive, when human help shall fail us, be, O Adonai, the strength of our heart and our portion forever more. (Daniel 12).

Almighty and most merciful Father, whose mercy has kept me from the grave, grant that I may reflect on my past life and repent of the days and years in which I ignored Your grace and neglected my salvation. Help me to use the time You have given me, so that I may become more diligent in the studies You have given me. When at last I shall be called in judgment, may I be received as a good and faithful servant into everlasting happiness. For the sake of Yeshua Moshiach our Saviour. (Hosea 6).

O Adonai my Saviour and my Master, I, Your undeserving servant, with fear and trembling give thanks to Your loving goodness for all benefits which You have poured so abundantly upon me, Your servant. I fall down in adoration before You and offer You, O YHVH, my praises. With fervour I cry to You, O YHVH: Deliver me from all adversities, and mercifully fulfil in me those desires that may be pleasing to You. Hear me, O Adonai and have mercy, for You are the hope of all the earth. To You, with the Father and Ruach HaKodesh, be ascribed glory, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. (Joel 2).

O Adonai, look in pity on us poor pilgrims in the narrow way. Let us not go astray but reach at last our true home where our Father dwells. Guide and govern us from day to day, and bestow on us food and strength for body and soul that we may journey on in peace. Forgive us for having so often wavered or looked back, and let us march straight on in the way of your laws. May our last step be a safe and peaceful passage to the arms of Your love, and the blessed fellowship of the saints in light. Hear us, O Adonai and glorify Your Name in us that we may glorify you forever and ever. (Amos 5)

Blessed Adonai, who was tempted in all things like we are, has mercy on our frailty. Out of weakness give us strength. Grant to us your fear so that we may fear You only. Support us in time of temptation. Embolden us in time of danger. Help us to do Your work with good courage and to continue as Your faithful soldiers and servants to the end of our life; through Yeshua Moshiach our Saviour. (Jonah 2).

O Adonai, greatest and most true light, from which the light of the day and of the sun springs! O Light, which lightens every human who comes into the world! O Light, which knows no night or evening but is always at midday most clear and fair! Without You all is utter dark- ness; by You everything is resplendent. O Wisdom, Father of mercies, enlighten my mind, so that I may see only those things that please You and be blind to everything else. (Micah 7).

Grant, Almighty YHVH, that we may learn to rely on You and so trust Your blessing that we would avoid stealing and plunder and all other evil deeds. Keep us from all unlawful coveting. Help us to fear You and so learn to bear our poverty on earth by being content with the spiritual riches You offer us in Your gospel. As partakers in that Good News, may we cheerfully aspire to that fullness of all blessings, which we shall enjoy when we are perfectly united to You through Moshiach our Saviour. (Habakkuk 2).

O Adonai, help us to turn and seek You; for You have not forsaken Your creatures as we have forsaken You, our Elohim. Let us turn and seek You, for we know You are here in our heart when we confess to You, when we cast ourselves upon You and weep in Your bosom after all our rugged ways; and You gently wipe away our tears, and we weep more for joy; for You, Adonai, who made us, do remake and comfort us. (Zephaniah 2).

O YHVH, before whose face the generations rise and pass away: Age after age the living seeks You and finds that there is no end to Your faithfulness. Our forbears in their pilgrimages walked by your guidance and rested on your compassion. To their children You were the cloud by day and the pillar by night. Where but in You have we shelter from the storm and shadow, from the heat of life? Take now the veil from every heart, and join us in one communion with Your prophets and saints who have trusted in You and were not ashamed. Not because we merit it, but because of Your mercy, hear our prayer. (Zechariah 10).

Help me Adonai, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church or closet nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that everywhere I am in Your presence. So may my every word and action have a moral content. (Malachi 2)

PRAYERS QUOTING OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS – PART 5

O Adonai, who is the giver of all good things, fill our hearts with gratitude for the food and drink laid before us. And as we fill our bellies, may we be sober and frugal in our eating, taking only that which is necessary to refresh ourselves for Your service. Let the pleasure we take in the bread that nourishes our earthly bodies be as nothing to the joy we take in the spiritual bread of Your truth, which nourishes the soul. (Proverbs 13).

O Adonai, who has so loved my soul, make me a lover of souls. Fill me with an unwearied, unconditional love, one that perceives keenly and endures strongly. Let such love enable others to do and be their best. Help me to be an advocate for the powerless and invisible. Take from me the spirit of nervousness and self-absorption. Being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, may I am fit to love, steady to persevere. Let no sickness or accident, no task or weariness, make me ungracious to those about me, but in all things make me like Your Holy Son, Yeshua. (Proverbs 16).

YHVH of Truth, protector of Your people, come to the aid of all who are poor and oppressed. By the power of Your life-giving Word, lead us in the ways of peace and integrity, and give us the help we long for in Yeshua Moshiach our Saviour. (Proverbs 29).

The breath of life, O Adonai, seems spent. My body is tense, my mind filled with anxiety, yet I have no zest, no energy. I am helpless to allay my fears; I am incapable of relaxing my limbs. Dark thoughts constantly invade my head, and I have no power to resist them. . .. Friends no longer want to visit me. You have driven away my spiritual brethren. I am now an outcast from Your church. No longer have the flowers wanted to bloom for me. No longer have the trees come into leaf for me. No longer have the birds sung at my window. My fellow Christians condemn me as an idle sinner. Adonai, raise up my soul, revives my body. (Ecclesiastes 2).

Teach us, O Adonai and enable us to live the life of saints and angels. Take us out of the apathy, the irritability, the sensitiveness, the anarchy in which our souls lie, and fill them with Your fullness. Breathe on us with Your breath, which infuses energy and kindles fervour. In asking for fervour, we ask for all that we may need and all that You can give. In asking for fervour, we are asking for faith, hope, and charity; we are asking for that loyal perception of duty, which follows on yearning affection; we are asking for sanctity, peace, and joy, all at once. Nothing would be a trouble to us, nothing a difficulty, had we but fervour of soul. Adonai, in asking for fervour we are asking for You, for nothing short of You, O YHVH. Enter our hearts, and fill them with fervour by filling them with You. (Ecclesiastes 12).

Majestic Sovereign, Timeless Wisdom, Your kindness melts my hard, cold soul. Handsome Lover, Selfless Giver, Your beauty fills my dull, sad eyes. I am Yours, You made me. I am Yours, You called me. I am Yours, You saved me. I am Yours, You loved me. I will never leave Your presence. Give me death, give me life. Give me sickness, give me health. Give me honour, give me shame. Give me weakness, give me strength. I will have whatever You give. (Song of Songs 2).

I ask You, Adonai Yeshua, to develop in me, Your lover, an immeasurable urge toward You, an affection that is unbounded, a longing that is unrestrained, a fervour that throws discretion to the winds! The more worthwhile our love for You, all the more pressing does it become. Reason cannot hold it in check, fear does not make it tremble, and wise judgment does not temper it. (Song of Songs 8).

Merciful Father, we come to You confessing the sins of our civilization, in which we have all shared. We have been so bent upon our selfish ends that we would not stop to have mercy. When we have seen those whom the injustices of the world have bruised and beaten, we have passed by on the other side. We have built around ourselves the walls of privilege, within which we might not hear the passion of exploited men, the weeping of women, and the bitter cry of children robbed of happy youth. O YHVH of judgment, make us fit to ask for Your forgiveness before it is too late. (Isaiah 1).

Almighty YHVH and Father of light, a child is born for us and a son is given to us. Your eternal Word leaped down from heaven in the silent watches of the night, and now Your Church is filled with wonder at the nearness of her YHVH. Open our heart to receive his life and increase our vision with the rising of dawn, that our life may be filled with His glory and His peace, who lives and reigns for ever and ever. (Isaiah 9).

Adonai, we beseech You to help and defend us. Deliver the oppressed, pity the poor, uplift those who have fallen, be the portion of those in need, return to Your care those who have feed the hungry, strengthen the weak, and break the chains of the prisoners. May all people come to know that You only are YHVH, that Yeshua Moshiach is Your Son, and that we are Your people and the sheep of Your pasture.
(Isaiah 25).

O eternal and most glorious YHVH, You who assure us that precious in Your sight is the death of Your saints, enable us in life and death, seriously to consider the value, the price of a soul. It is precious, O Adonai, because Your image is stamped and imprinted upon it; precious, because the blood of Your Son was paid for it; precious, because Your blessed Spirit, Ruach HaKodesh, works upon it and tests it by His various fires; and precious, because it is entered into Your revenue and made part of Your treasure. (Isaiah 43)

I asked for strength that I might achieve; I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked for health that I might do greater things; I was given infirmity that I might do better things. I asked for riches that I might be happy; I was given poverty that I might be wise. I asked for power that I might have the praise of men; I was given weakness that I might feel the need of YHVH. I asked for all things that I might enjoy life; I was given life that I might enjoy all things. I got nothing that I had asked for but everything that I had hoped for. Almost despite myself my unspoken prayers were answered; I am, among all men, most richly blessed. (Isaiah 55).

Behold Adonai, an empty vessel that needs to be filled. My Adonai, fill it. My faith is weak; strengthen me. I am cold in love; warm me and make me fervent that my love may go out to my neighbour. I do not have a strong and firm faith; at times I doubt and am unable to trust You altogether. O Adonai, help me. Strengthen my faith and trust in You. In You I have sealed the treasures of all I have. I am poor; You are rich and did come to be merciful to the poor. I am a sinner; You are upright. With me there is an abundance of sin; in You is the fullness of righteousness. Therefore, I will remain with You of whom I can receive but to whom I may not give. (Isaiah 65).

Grant to me, O Adonai, to know what I ought to know, to love what I ought to love, to praise what delights You most, to value what is precious in Your sight, to hate what is offensive to You. Do not suffer me to judge according to the sight of my eyes nor to pass sentence according to the hearing of the ears of ignorant men; but to discern with true judgment between things visible and spiritual, and above all things to enquire what the good pleasure of Your will is. (Jeremiah 8).

O Adonai Almighty, Father un-begotten, upon us miserable sinners have mercy. O Adonai, who has redeemed the work of Your hands by Your only Son, have mercy upon us. O Adonai, blot out our offences, and upon Your people have mercy. O Moshiach, Brightness of the Father’s glory and the express image of His person, have mercy upon us. O Moshiach, who saved the world at the command of the Father, have mercy upon us. O Moshiach, Saviour of men, eternal life of angels, have mercy upon us. O Adonai, Spirit, the Comforter, Dispenser of pardon, have mercy upon us. O Adonai, Fountain of mercy and of sevenfold grace, have mercy upon us. O most bountiful Giver of gifts, Rabbeinu, Source of life, of Your goodness have mercy upon us. (Jeremiah 15).

Come forth from Your royal chambers, O Prince of all the kings of the earth. Put on the visible robes of Your imperial majesty. Take up that limitless sceptre that Your Almighty Father has bequeathed you. For now the voice of Your bride, the church, calls You, and all creatures sigh to be renewed. (Jeremiah 23).