PrayerBits for Tuesday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Tuesday

Scripture lesson: Psalm 118:1-2,19-29 Happy the person...

Time to reflect: Study after study has shown what the first two verses of this Psalm asserts: that those who try to do what is right and what is in keeping with God's will are just happier.

Moving through the day: Pray about the things you might be striving for to make you happy and compare with what this Psalm implies.

Scripture:

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
       his love endures forever.

  Let Israel say:
       "His love endures forever."

Open for me the gates of righteousness;
       I will enter and give thanks to the LORD.

  This is the gate of the LORD
       through which the righteous may enter.

  I will give you thanks, for you answered me;
       you have become my salvation.

  The stone the builders rejected
       has become the capstone;

  the LORD has done this,
       and it is marvelous in our eyes.

  This is the day the LORD has made;
       let us rejoice and be glad in it.

  O LORD, save us;
       O LORD, grant us success.

 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD.
       From the house of the LORD we bless you.

  The LORD is God,
       and he has made his light shine upon us.
       With boughs in hand, join in the festal procession
       up to the horns of the altar.

  You are my God, and I will give you thanks;
       you are my God, and I will exalt you.

 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
       his love endures forever.