PrayerBits for Friday

PrayerBits

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

Friday

Scripture Lesson: Psalm 80:1-2, 8-19 Israel's response

Time to reflect: Actually, if I was picking the Bible verses used in PrayerBits, I would have swapped this reading with yesterday's. Here the Psalmist is appealing to God and asking “why?” Isaiah give the answer. The Psalmist would not have been happy with the answer.

Moving through the day: Think about times when you know that God has an answer to you that you don't like.

Scripture:

Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel,
       you who lead Joseph like a flock;
       you who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth

 2 before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh.
       Awaken your might;
       come and save us.

8 You brought a vine out of Egypt;
       you drove out the nations and planted it.

 9 You cleared the ground for it,
       and it took root and filled the land.

 10 The mountains were covered with its shade,
       the mighty cedars with its branches.

 11 It sent out its boughs to the Sea, [a]
       its shoots as far as the River. [b]

 12 Why have you broken down its walls
       so that all who pass by pick its grapes?

 13 Boars from the forest ravage it
       and the creatures of the field feed on it.

 14 Return to us, O God Almighty!
       Look down from heaven and see!
       Watch over this vine,

 15 the root your right hand has planted,
       the son [c] you have raised up for yourself.

 16 Your vine is cut down, it is burned with fire;
       at your rebuke your people perish.

 17 Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand,
       the son of man you have raised up for yourself.

 18 Then we will not turn away from you;
       revive us, and we will call on your name.

 19 Restore us, O LORD God Almighty;
       make your face shine upon us,
       that we may be saved.