2024 04 17 The Apostles Creed

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The Apostle’s Creed

I BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty,
     Dad, I believe in you and your love for me.
Maker of heaven and earth:
     LORD, creation testifies to your glory.
And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord:
     Jesus, you are my Lord and Savior.
Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,
     Holy Spirit, you have done what no man could do.
Born of the Virgin Mary:
     I thank you for Mary’s wiliness to say, “Yes,” to you.
Suffered under Pontius Pilate,
     Jesus, you suffered for me; thank you.
Was crucified, dead, and buried:
     Jesus, remember me now that you have come into your kingdom.
He descended into hell;
     Jesus, your mercy extends even to those who have died; thank you.
The third day he rose again from the dead:
     Jesus, I live in the hope of your resurrection from the dead.
He ascended into heaven,
     Jesus, thank you for going before us and making a way for us to enter into glory.
And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty:
     Jesus, you are your rightful place beside the Father.
From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
     Lord, you shall judge the living and the dead when you return in glory.
I believe in the Holy Ghost:
     Holy Spirit, you have transformed my life and given me hope of eternal life with Jesus and the power to live this life in you.
The holy Catholic Church;
     Jesus, rebuild and restore your church to purity of faith so that it proclaims the good news of your resurrection and victory over sin and death.
The Communion of Saints:
     Father, thank you for the fellowship I enjoy with the saints in heaven and on earth.
The Forgiveness of sins:
     Jesus, I have confessed my sins to you, and you have made me clean again; thank you.
The Resurrection of the body:
     Holy Trinity, One God, I live and hope to die in the hope of the resurrection and enter paradise with the thief on the cross.
And the Life everlasting. Amen.
     Jesus, thank you for the new life I have entered which will be beyond death to eternity.

A Word Received: Share your hope with others.

Albany Intercessor

2024 04 16 Lord’s Prayer

The Lord's My Shepherd - Stuart Townend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN4tPkX0MG0

Luke 11:1-4 New King James Version

1 Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.” 2 So He said to them, “When you pray, say:
     Lord, teach us to pray.

Our Father in heaven,
     Father, thank you for being a Dad to us.

Hallowed be Your name.
     Father, help us keep your name holy.

Your kingdom come.
     Jesus, please help us enter your kingdom life.

Your will be done
     Holy Spirit, help me surrender my will to you.

On earth as it is in heaven.
     Jesus, establish your kingdom life in our midst.

3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
     Jesus, I treasure every crumb, every word that falls from your table.

4 And forgive us our sins,
     Jesus, help us acknowledge our sins before you.

For we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
     Holy Spirit, help me cancel every debt owed to me.

And do not lead us into temptation,
     Jesus, help us handle temptation as you did: by saying, "For it is written..."

But deliver us from the evil one.”
     Father, be our bulwark and shield to keep us from the evil one.

A Word Received: Be an adopted child of mine; know me as your Father.

Albany Intercessor

2024 04 15

I Want To Walk As A Child Of The Light (Hymn Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXkek4lJTGM

Mark 10:1 New King James Version
1 Then He arose from there and came to the region of Judea by the other side of the Jordan. And multitudes gathered to Him again, and as He was accustomed, He taught them again.
     Jesus, please come and teach the multitudes here.

Mark 10:5-9 New King James Version
5 And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. 6 But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’ 7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
     Holy Spirit, please help us recognize and repent of the hardness of our hearts.

Mark 10:13-16 New King James Version
13 Then they brought little children to Him, that He might touch them; but the disciples rebuked those who brought them. 14 But when Jesus saw it, He was greatly displeased and said to them, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God. 15 Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.” 16 And He took them up in His arms, laid His hands on them, and blessed them.
     Father, help us bless and welcome little children into our lives.

Hebrews 4:16 New King James Version
16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
     Jesus, please help us come boldly to the throne of grace.

Hebrews 4:11 New King James Version
11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.
     Jesus, help us strive to enter your rest.

A Word Received: Come into my rest rejoicing.

Albany Intercessor

2024 04 14

Antonin Dvorak - New World Symphony ~Largo~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCydQm83cJQ

Jeremiah 2:13 New King James Version
13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.
     Holy Spirit, help me recognize and reject the broken cisterns in my life, and drink deeply from Jesus, the fountain of living water.

A Word Received: Pray for my Holy Spirit to help you discern the difference between the fountain and the empty cisterns.

Albany Intercessor

2024 04 13

"Up Above My Head"- Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Marie Knight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFe-B2v_Yk8

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Didn't it rain, children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NFywQdeKSo

Walking With My Jesus-The St. Paul Church Choir-Los Angeles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-o9V4sdtns

Billie Holiday Strange Fruit with Lyrics on Screen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bckob0AyKCA

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - This Train (is bound for Glory)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6L5grLqkA0

Genesis 18:17-19 New King James Version
17 And the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing, 18 since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 19 For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice, that the Lord may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.”
     Father, thank you for the blessing that comes through Abraham to us.

Genesis 18:20-21 New King James Version
20 And the Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, 21 I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.”
     Jesus, our sins cry out to the heavens.

Genesis 18:24-25 New King James Version
24 Suppose there were fifty righteous within the city; would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that were in it? 25 Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
     Jesus, I trust that your judgment will be righteous and fair.

Genesis 7:15-16 New King James Version
15 And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life. 16 So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in.
     Thank you for shutting the door beind us. You shut the righteous in and the unrighteous out.

Genesis 2:15 New King James Version
15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
     LORD, the day will come when we walk with you in the gardens of heaven, and we shall not be ashamed.

Psalm 46:1-3 New King James Version
1 God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear, Even though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; 3 Though its waters roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with its swelling.
     Jesus, you are refuge in these troubled times.
     
Psalm 46:4 New King James Version
4 There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High.
     Jesus, baptize us afresh in the river of your Spirit.

A Word Received: Look to me to shine my light and show you the way.

Albany Intercessor

2024 04 12

All To Jesus I Surrender by Robin Mark Lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW8EA7DEQ2M

Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken 200 Voice Mass Choir Classic Hymns Album "Sweet Hour of Prayer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQJUrK5vh4g

"The Church's One Foundation" - 250 Voice Mass Choir - Classic Hymns Album" Blessed Assurance "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LZVz1guz2c

Kannada Hymn "Sahasra" by 150 voice Mass Choir for Classic Hymns album " Munnadesu"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WdeNvGnEFU

Joyful Joyful - Mass Choir - Classic Hymns " Ancient of Days"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_SE-kDlHwo

Galatians 5:1-23 New King James Version

1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
     Jesus, please help me stand fast in the liberty you have given me.

4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.
     Lord, let my works be an expression of my faith rather than of law.

5 For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
     Father, I live in the hope of the resurrection where I shall come before you in hope and expectation.

6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.
     Holy Spirit,, help my faith work through love.

13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
     Father, help me resist the pull of the flesh.

14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
     Holy Spirit, help me love my neighbors.

19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
     Jesus, I am too familiar with works of the flesh; I confess my sin to you.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
     Lord Jesus, produce the fruit of the Spirit in my life so that I may bless others.

A Word Received: Come, lay your burdens at my feet and enter my rest.

Albany Intercessor

2024 04 11

Christ the Lord is Risen Today | Charles Wesley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15dmjnB8FZU
     Jesus, come alive in my heart today.

Down To The River To Pray - Alison Krauss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSif77IVQdY
     Holy Spirit, baptize us again.

King's College Choir - Thine be the glory (Haendel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXzmjNE-yLA

Grootkoor Transeamus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRpZovWH6yI

Colossians 3:1-15 New King James Version

1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
     Jesus, help me seek you.

2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
     Jesus, help us set our minds on the kingdom of heaven.

3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
     Father, hide my life in Christ Jesus.

4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
     Holy Spirit, help us experience the glory of Christ Jesus.

5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,
     Holy Spirit, help me put to death my earthly passions of the flesh.

7 in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. 8 But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.
     Father, please help me put these failings behind me.

9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,
     Jesus, let me be remade in your image.

11 where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.
     Holy Spirit, help me set aside all dividing thoughts.

12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.
     Father, please help me put on the character of Christ.

14 But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
     Jesus, please help me put on your love day by day.

15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
     Jesus, let you peace rule and reign in my heart.

A Word Received: Look to me for joy unexpected.

Albany Intercessor