I love you, LORD;
you are my strength.
I am praying to you because I know you will answer, O God.
Bend down and listen as I pray.
(Hubbard Glacier)
…to you who are willing to listen,
I say, love your enemies!
Do good to those who hate you.
Bless those who curse you.
Pray for those who hurt you.
I will bless the LORD who guides me;
even at night my heart instructs me.
I know the LORD is always with me.
I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me.
The LORD’s promises are pure,
like silver refined in a furnace,
purified seven times over.
Those who know your name trust in you,
for you, O LORD, do not abandon those who search for you.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega—
the beginning and the end,”
says the Lord God.
“I am the one who is,
who always was,
and who is still to come—
the Almighty One.”
…“Worthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered—
to receive power and riches
and wisdom and strength
and honor and glory.”