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Here I Am, Lord | Dan Schutte | SATB Choir with Lyrics | I The Lord Of Sea And Sky | Catholic Hymn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGNYDcqdl8g

'There is a balm in Gilead'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fcMxI_6xsk

The Sound of Music - Edelweiss (Reprise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6-P3pFhmQI

I'll Fly Away By Alan Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNaf8WjAB44

34 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" 37 Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." Matthew 22:34-40 (NKJV)
     Lord, your church and people have put loving their neighbor before loving you. Please help us get our priorities right.

3 For our exhortation did not come from error or uncleanness, nor was it in deceit. 4 But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts. 1 Thessalonians 2:3-4 (NKJV)
     Holy Spirit, raise up preachers whose aim is to please God rather than their congregations.

21 "You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22 "You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. 23 If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry; 24 and My wrath will become hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. Exodus 22:21-24 (NKJV)
     Father, help us reach out to the afflicted.

1 Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night. 3 He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper. Psalm 1:1-3 (NKJV)
     LORD, plant us by living water so that we can bear good fruit.

A Word Received: Let me have my way. Don't be afraid to step aside and let me go before you.

Albany Intercessor