Let My Prayer Rise To YOU Like Incense

"LORD, I call on YOU, hasten to help me!  Listen to my plea when I call to YOU.

Let my prayer rise to YOU, like incense; as I lift up my hands, as in an evening sacrifice.

O YAHWEH, set a guard at my mouth; keep watch at the gate of my lips.

Let not my heart be drawn to evil; let me not be enticed into evil acts in company with sinners, and let me not partake of their delights.

Rather, the reproach and the just scourge, than the oil of the wicked anointing my head.

When their rulers are flung upon the rock, only then, will these wicked learn that I was tolerant with them;

when the earth opens to swallow them, and their bones are scattered at the edge of the netherworld.

But my eyes are turned to YOU, O GOD, my YAHWEH; strip me not of life, for YOU are my refuge."

- Psalm 141:1-8

(As each day ends, what have we to bring to GOD?  Only our weariness with the struggle; our dismay that it must continue; and our prayer that we may persevere!

'Let my prayer rise to YOU like an incense...' are the words of the psalmist.  If we too pray sincerely, our prayers will rise to heaven.  In fact, in Matthew 6:6 JESUS tells us, 'When you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to YOUR FATHER who is with you in secret; and YOUR FATHER who sees what is kept in secret will reward you.'  And in John 15:16 JESUS says, 'And everything you ask the FATHER in MY name, HE will give you.'

We can pray with this psalm, when we see the evil surrounding us and we wouldn't want to sin or hurt anyone with our words.  With this psalm, we ask GOD to deliver us from evil.)

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