PRAYERS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT --- PART 10

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 HaMashiach, Brightness of the Father’s glory and the express image of His person, have mercy upon us. O HaMashiach, who saved the world at the command of the Father, have mercy upon us. O HaMashiach, 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).

Almighty and everlasting YAHVEH, 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 HaMashiach 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 YAHVEH-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 YAHVEH’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 YAHVEH, 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).