0.000000 4.260000 no matter what transpires in the darkness of night,
4.260000 9.120000 whether actual darkness of night or just a darkness of the soul,
9.120000 12.380000 that we are relying on him to keep us close.
12.380000 16.640000 Is God trustworthy?
16.640000 18.880000 Hi, I'm Sarah.
18.880000 20.720000 And I'm Mary Beth.
20.720000 23.120000 Join us as we seek to answer this question
23.120000 26.000000 through whole-hearted conversation.
26.000000 28.520000 Discover the wit and wisdom that comes
28.520000 32.140000 for being anchored in Christ and connected to one another.
32.140000 34.500000 This is Trustworthy.
34.500000 50.800000 Well, hello there, Mary Beth.
50.800000 52.080000 Hey, Sarah.
52.080000 56.240000 It's so good to be here with you in the room.
56.240000 58.340000 I am very excited about this.
58.340000 61.300000 It's the first time in at least a month and a half
61.300000 64.540000 that we've been able to record together in person.
64.540000 66.420000 That's right.
66.420000 70.860000 And we're now into longer daylight days.
70.860000 72.620000 Yes, spring is coming.
72.620000 73.980000 It is.
73.980000 76.100000 In fact, I believe when everyone listens to this,
76.100000 77.500000 it will be spring.
77.500000 78.380000 Exciting.
78.380000 82.700000 Yes, truly an answer to prayer.
82.700000 83.820000 That's right.
83.820000 86.700000 Hmm, prayer.
86.700000 89.260000 How funny you should bring that up, Sarah.
89.260000 91.260000 I did it on purpose.
91.260000 95.900000 I thought you may have since that's what our topic is today.
95.900000 98.140000 People pray a lot.
98.140000 103.260000 Sometimes people pray in a moment of trouble.
103.260000 109.300000 Sometimes people pray in time of Thanksgiving, enjoy.
109.300000 112.500000 Sometimes people pray because they want something,
112.500000 114.900000 or they want something for someone else,
114.900000 119.460000 or they feel overwhelmed, or maybe they pray
119.460000 122.660000 because they want to look good.
122.660000 125.900000 People pray for a lot of reasons.
125.900000 130.300000 Why does God tell us to pray?
130.300000 135.180000 There are plenty of instructions in the Bible about prayer.
135.180000 138.780000 And if we think about the benefits of prayer for us,
138.780000 140.900000 but that it also is a command, things
140.900000 145.460000 come to mind, such as it deepens our relationship with God
145.460000 148.620000 when we're talking to him more often.
148.620000 153.500000 It is a way to just praise our creator
153.500000 157.580000 and glorify who he is and what he's done.
157.580000 160.420000 It's also a natural response sometimes
160.420000 162.060000 to what's happening in our lives.
162.060000 163.940000 Yeah, it's to cry out to the Lord,
163.940000 167.140000 whether it's good times, bad times, hard times,
167.140000 170.860000 some of those reasons you listed at the beginning
170.860000 174.540000 are our natural response to our Maker.
174.540000 178.420000 But then there's also specific types of prayers,
178.420000 184.420000 prayers of confession of sin, prayers of supplication,
184.420000 187.780000 big church word there, asking for things
187.780000 192.620000 for other people or for ourselves, prayers of Thanksgiving.
192.620000 198.380000 Prayer also puts us in right relationship with God.
198.380000 204.980000 It establishes him as father, provider, creator,
204.980000 209.100000 sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent.
209.100000 212.220000 All those things we are not, yes, his ways are higher
212.220000 215.420000 than our ways, his thoughts are higher than our thoughts.
215.420000 218.260000 Sometimes all it takes is stopping to pray
218.260000 223.540000 to read a line, our perspective on God is great.
223.540000 224.940000 I am small.
224.940000 226.460000 Yes, I am not in control.
226.460000 228.500000 He is in control.
228.500000 233.620000 All of those things, it can help us appreciate
233.620000 235.980000 the reality of who we are and who he is.
235.980000 241.340000 I think sometimes we have prayers that we know so well.
241.340000 243.580000 They're just wrote that we don't stop to think
243.580000 245.740000 what we're actually praying.
245.740000 247.100000 
247.100000 249.460000 One is the good old bedtime prayer.
249.460000 251.020000 Now I lay me down to sleep.
251.020000 252.620000 I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
252.620000 255.460000 If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul
255.460000 262.020000 take truly we are talking about putting our entire
262.020000 264.300000 being in God's hands.
264.300000 267.100000 I mean, that's what we are saying.
267.100000 271.300000 And I can think of times in my life where I went to bed
271.300000 274.980000 either in great pain or distress physically
274.980000 279.500000 or I went to sleep in great emotional distress
279.500000 282.180000 and a prayer like that kind of takes
282.180000 285.460000 on a different meaning.
285.460000 291.620000 If I die before I wake, I pray, Lord, that I'm with you.
291.620000 294.940000 And sometimes I thought that that prayer is a little bit,
294.940000 297.380000 I don't know, macabre maybe.
297.380000 300.100000 It's really not.
300.100000 305.180000 It's putting our whole being in the safest hands,
305.180000 308.740000 the best place to place our trust is in God.
308.740000 310.660000 I mean, that's what our podcast is all about.
310.660000 312.460000 It's trusting God.
312.460000 314.780000 That's a prayer of assurance.
314.780000 315.860000 Yeah.
315.860000 321.060000 Deep assurance that we do trust that He's got us.
321.060000 326.340000 And that no matter what transpires in the darkness of night,
326.340000 331.780000 whether actual darkness of night or just a darkness of the soul,
331.780000 335.100000 that we are relying on Him to keep us close.
335.100000 339.620000 And what better care to place our children in?
339.620000 342.540000 As we stay that prayer with them.
342.540000 345.500000 Well, that's one of the things that I was thinking about
345.500000 348.580000 when we came up with this idea to talk about prayer today
348.580000 351.820000 is that there are prayers that some of them,
351.820000 353.380000 we may not even know the origin of.
353.380000 358.660000 Some of them we do that people have written long before us
358.660000 361.100000 that Christians have been praying for years
361.100000 364.420000 around the world in different ways and times.
364.420000 366.460000 There are prayers recorded for us in Scripture
366.460000 370.940000 to follow, to learn from.
370.940000 375.540000 And I thought we could talk today about some everyday prayers
375.540000 379.860000 that maybe in those times where prayer
379.860000 383.220000 feels like this huge thing that we're supposed to be doing.
383.220000 387.380000 And I know personally, my prayer life
387.380000 391.100000 is not always what I want it to be, or what I think it should be,
391.100000 393.140000 or what Scripture says it should be.
393.140000 396.340000 And so there are some helpful ways that we can use prayers
396.340000 401.420000 that already exist out there that maybe you know some of these,
401.420000 402.660000 maybe some of these are new to you,
402.660000 405.620000 but we just wanted to share some ideas of some everyday prayers
405.620000 406.500000 that we can use.
406.500000 416.500000 I think one of the most common ones is the prayer at meal time.
416.500000 417.780000 God is great.
417.780000 419.260000 God is good.
419.260000 421.260000 Now we thank him for our food.
421.260000 423.140000 By his hands, we all are fed.
423.140000 425.780000 Give us, Lord, our daily bread.
425.780000 428.100000 And if you kind of break that down,
428.100000 431.740000 you started at the very beginning, God is great.
431.740000 433.980000 Greater than anything else.
433.980000 436.060000 He's good.
436.060000 437.740000 And so we're acknowledging that.
437.740000 442.260000 Now we're thanking him for this food.
442.260000 445.940000 And it is through his hand that we are fed physically,
445.940000 449.140000 spiritually, emotionally, financially, in any way.
449.140000 450.740000 He's providing for us.
450.740000 455.340000 And at the end, we're asking God to give us our daily bread.
455.340000 458.500000 It's claiming that promise that he will be who he says he is.
458.500000 459.740000 Yeah, absolutely.
459.740000 462.260000 It's a powerful little prayer when you're really thinking about it.
462.260000 467.500000 My family prayed one similar to that, but a little different.
467.500000 473.300000 It goes, God, we thank you for our food, for rest and home.
473.300000 477.260000 And all things good, for wind and rain and sun above.
477.260000 480.020000 But most of all, for those we love.
480.020000 486.660000 I like that one, too, because it brings to mind nature.
486.660000 496.260000 And whether it's windy, or rainy, or sunny, which could be S-U-N, or S-O-N, sun above,
496.260000 499.420000 we always have something to be thankful for.
499.420000 501.780000 And of course, the people that we love.
501.780000 503.340000 Yeah.
503.340000 508.500000 I recall a time in my childhood when I was at my cousin's house.
508.500000 512.820000 And we were saying the prayer before we ate lunch, and we started out with God is great
512.820000 514.460000 God is good.
514.460000 516.540000 Let us thank Him for our food.
516.540000 523.460000 And then we concluded it with Rub-Dub-Dub, thanks to the grub, yay, God, which I'm not sure
523.460000 530.740000 how that one transcends to every child's prayer life, but somehow we've all picked it up.
530.740000 533.660000 Well, I actually put that in the notes.
533.660000 536.580000 That came to me, and the fact that you also used that one.
536.580000 541.420000 I feel a little better, because it feels a little sacrilegious, but yeah, it's fun.
541.420000 546.760000 I mean, I don't know where the rub-Dub-Dub, I guess it came from the rub-Dub-Dub-Dub-3-Man
546.760000 547.760000 and a tub.
547.760000 548.760000 Yeah.
548.760000 553.020000 And trickle down through culture, isn't that interesting?
553.020000 559.300000 I also can't talk about meal time prayers without remembering my grandfather's, which I've
559.300000 562.660000 said before on the podcast.
562.660000 566.060000 I ate meals with him throughout my life, but we didn't see each other frequently enough
566.060000 570.180000 that this was a common occurrence, but for some reason it stuck with me.
570.180000 576.020000 His prayer was always Lord for these, meaning the food, and all our many blessings may the
576.020000 579.100000 Lord make us truly grateful.
579.100000 586.020000 And the thing that I like about that prayer is sometimes we might not feel grateful for
586.020000 587.340000 the things that we have.
587.340000 591.580000 Sometimes our heart needs some correction, and that prayer is admitting that and asking
591.580000 596.740000 God, "Make us grateful for these things, make us pause and acknowledge where they came
596.740000 603.260000 from," short and sweet, but packed full of theology.
603.260000 608.260000 One of the other ones that I've come to enjoy, and even used, that comes from the Catholic
608.260000 617.020000 tradition, is bless us, O Lord, and these thy gifts, which we are about to receive from
617.020000 620.700000 thy bounty, through Christ, our Lord.
620.700000 628.820000 I just love that because it's acknowledging that everything we receive is from God, that
628.820000 632.260000 it comes from bounty, that there's no lack.
632.260000 637.140000 The Scripture says that out of the abundance, everything we get is through Christ.
637.140000 640.780000 I like that one too.
640.780000 647.140000 I was also thinking of prayers that I use with my children, that other people might use
647.140000 650.420000 with their children.
650.420000 652.220000 Our boys know the Lord's Prayer.
652.220000 658.300000 That was one of the early ones that we taught them, and sometimes at bedtime.
658.300000 659.820000 We don't know what to pray.
659.820000 666.180000 It's either been a hard day or just been a normal day, and we don't really know what to say.
666.180000 670.380000 Our default is to go to the Lord's Prayer, which is always a good option.
670.380000 676.300000 But then there's other ones that we group in that category of childhood prayers.
676.300000 681.820000 One that I learned just in recent years, there's a counseling ministry in National Tennessee
681.820000 684.700000 called Day Star Counseling, and this is one that they teach.
684.700000 685.700000 They run a summer camp.
685.700000 690.300000 They teach this to their kids, and it just says, "This is actually a morning prayer.
690.300000 691.380000 Good morning, Lord.
691.380000 692.620000 This is your day.
692.620000 693.940000 I am your child.
693.940000 694.940000 Show me the way."
694.940000 695.940000 Hmm.
695.940000 701.940000 It's just a very simple way to center your mind, focus it as you start your day.
701.940000 704.420000 You can say this before you go out the door to the school bus.
704.420000 705.420000 I mean, goodness.
705.420000 707.660000 This is good for adults to pray too.
707.660000 708.660000 Yeah.
708.660000 709.660000 Certainly is.
709.660000 716.100000 Are there other children's kind of prayers you put in the category of prayers with your children?
716.100000 722.540000 We also prayed the Lord's Prayer every night when my son was young.
722.540000 726.820000 When he was very young, I would say three.
726.820000 729.740000 We prayed every night because we did the books and the songs and whatever.
729.740000 738.300000 I said, "The prayer," and I taught him to pray, "Dear God, thank you for the sunshine
738.300000 740.540000 and the rain."
740.540000 748.580000 And so even as a teenager now, when he starts a prayer, he often starts it that way.
748.580000 753.540000 It just makes me happy to hear that, that that stuck with him.
753.540000 760.260000 And my goal at that time was to teach him to thank God first.
760.260000 764.660000 Even if it's something that he may not fully think through every time he says it, just
764.660000 769.860000 like we were talking about Rub a dub dub or now I lay me down to sleep or whatever, but
769.860000 775.700000 it's still that attitude of gratitude that comes first.
775.700000 780.940000 We often sing for our grace at meal time.
780.940000 783.100000 Give us Lord our daily bread has some music to it.
783.100000 789.240000 We sing that frequently, but we also sing the doxology, praise God from whom all blessings
789.240000 795.780000 flow, praise God all creatures here below, praise him above the heavenly hosts, praise
795.780000 798.220000 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
798.220000 801.180000 And that's truly just praising.
801.180000 806.860000 There's prayers of petition, prayers of supplication, prayers of thanksgiving, all these different
806.860000 814.280000 things. And it sometimes can be hard to remember everything you're supposed to do in prayer.
814.280000 822.860000 Well, good news listeners, Mary Beth and I are pretty convinced that just opening up a line
822.860000 828.620000 of communication with God is a really good place to start and it doesn't even have to go further
828.620000 829.620000 than that.
829.620000 840.100000 So, I also mentioned every moment holy a series of books by Douglas McCalvie will put a link
840.100000 850.260000 to them in our show notes beautifully illustrated and there's all sorts of things like a liturgy
850.260000 857.740000 for the first hearth fire of the season, a liturgy for feasting with friends or a liturgy
857.740000 859.380000 for wandering.
859.380000 865.860000 There's literally monitoring or closed wandering, I think closed wandering, but there is there's
865.860000 872.780000 even a prayer for caring for children, perhaps even for changing dirty diapers, but is really
872.780000 880.220000 interesting way to approach daily life or even a new pocket size book that contains liturgies
880.220000 885.400000 from some of our favorite authors like Andrew Peterson, Ruth Chow Simons, so we'll link
885.400000 886.400000 to that.
886.400000 890.540000
890.540000 899.480000 I've been thinking about resources that have been helpful to me and prayers that have been
899.480000 906.740000 created before I existed here and one of those is the book of common prayer.
906.740000 909.640000 There are a couple different versions out there, the Anglican version or the Episcopalian
909.640000 916.200000 version and if you're not familiar with this book, a lot of it is designed to follow
916.200000 921.140000 church services, the calendar of the church for the year.
921.140000 925.720000 It provides different prayers for different situations in life and lots of other things.
925.720000 932.120000 That's the one that the wedding ceremony is often spoken from, so people may have heard
932.120000 934.120000 that before.
934.120000 940.600000 I liked to keep this handy when I was physically working in an office not at home.
940.600000 943.920000 I would keep this on my bookshelf and sometimes during lunchtime.
943.920000 949.400000 It's like, "I need somebody else's words to help me reset whatever's going on in my life."
949.400000 956.160000 But one of the ones I like from the book of common prayer is called the Compline Prayer.
956.160000 962.120000 Speaking of what Sarah was just saying about a song, there is a Compline hymn that I learned
962.120000 966.080000 at an Anglican church several years back and it comes from this.
966.080000 969.040000 So I'm just going to read the Compline Prayer.
969.040000 973.620000 Almighty God our Heavenly Father, we have sinned against you through our own fault in
973.620000 977.440000 thought and word, indeed, and in what we have left undone.
977.440000 983.380000 For the sake of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, forgive us all our offenses and grant that
983.380000 990.740000 we may serve you in newness of life to the glory of your name, Amen.
990.740000 997.280000 And that prayer brings to mind other prayers of confession, which Sarah, I would say,
997.280000 1003.480000 this concept of prayer of confession is something God has been repeatedly teaching
1003.480000 1006.180000 us in the recent history.
1006.180000 1015.560000 Yes, the sermons, a church, some of the writings that we've been both reading and discussions
1015.560000 1021.200000 that have been happening in our small group in other areas of our lives separately and
1021.200000 1024.120000 together have been pointing us to this.
1024.120000 1031.720000 In fact, I believe we just had some episodes about conviction a few weeks ago.
1031.720000 1039.940000 Trying to see a common thread here, and sometimes this idea of confession can bring up different
1039.940000 1041.940000 responses in people, right?
1041.940000 1042.940000 Yeah.
1042.940000 1050.120000 We're not talking about strict Catholic confession going in a booth and confessing to a priest,
1050.120000 1055.560000 but we do want to look at what does Scripture teach us about confession of our sin.
1055.560000 1059.940000 There have been times I was just talking to Sarah before we started recording.
1059.940000 1063.860000 Because I've been a part of in the past where the confession of sin is a part of every Sunday
1063.860000 1065.660000 morning service.
1065.660000 1070.500000 It's part of the order of worship, the confession of sin and the assurance of pardon.
1070.500000 1076.160000 And Scripture talks about how important it is to confess our sins to one another, not just
1076.160000 1079.700000 privately.
1079.700000 1084.740000 And so what are some ways that we can look to maybe what Scripture says about the importance
1084.740000 1093.400000 of confession and maybe just some examples in Scripture of what that could look like?
1093.400000 1095.460000 I think about prayer as a confession.
1095.460000 1103.680000 I think about the prayer of the public in Jesus tells a story in Luke 18, verses 10 to 14,
1103.680000 1108.620000 two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
1108.620000 1113.900000 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, "God, I thank you that I am not like other people."
1113.900000 1119.460000 The robbers, evildoers, adulterers, or even like this tax collector, I fast twice a week
1119.460000 1122.540000 and give a tenth of all I get.
1122.540000 1125.620000 But the tax collector stood at a distance.
1125.620000 1131.140000 He would not even look up to heaven, but he beat his breast and said, "God, have mercy
1131.140000 1135.100000 on me a sinner."
1135.100000 1140.460000 Jesus said, "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before
1140.460000 1145.460000 God, for all those who exalt themselves will be humbled and those who humble themselves
1145.460000 1147.580000 will be exalted."
1147.580000 1158.980000 And this again brings us back to humility, humility and confession and this idea of dying
1158.980000 1159.980000 to self.
1159.980000 1163.620000 Jesus said, "We must take up our cross."
1163.620000 1172.180000 So being willing to confess is a big part of prayer.
1172.180000 1174.700000 I've heard people say, "Well, why do I need to confess it to God?"
1174.700000 1176.900000 He already knows.
1176.900000 1179.300000 He knows everything.
1179.300000 1185.840000 But as we've previously discussed on this podcast, saying things out loud is powerful and
1185.840000 1192.060000 admitting to ourselves to God and to another person, the exact nature of our wrongs, which
1192.060000 1201.020000 is one of the twelve steps, changes the way that that sin affects us.
1201.020000 1207.340000 Things that live in the darkness will continue to control us, but when we bring things into
1207.340000 1214.180000 the light, the whole experience that we have changes.
1214.180000 1221.140000 Our fellow blogger from our church on the Willowdale Women blog, Susan Veenema just wrote recently
1221.140000 1228.020000 about this and how scripture teaches us that when we confess our sins to one another, we
1228.020000 1237.620000 will be healed and that there is healing that comes with that public confession.
1237.620000 1242.900000 And there are things that we may believe in our heart or no in our heart and we've talked
1242.900000 1250.060000 about them with God, but there is something distinct about sharing it with other people.
1250.060000 1255.420000 And the healing that that brings and also the depth of relationship that that brings.
1255.420000 1268.420000 And even just the power of speaking the truth, I was singing of Mark 9 when Jesus is moving
1268.420000 1274.780000 through a town and a father comes out and his son has been possessed by this unclean
1274.780000 1280.920000 spirit, his whole childhood, and he says to Jesus, if you can do anything, have compassion
1280.920000 1286.020000 on us and help us, and Jesus said to him, "If you can, all things are possible for one
1286.020000 1287.020000 who believes."
1287.020000 1294.380000 And immediately the father of the child cried out and said, "I believe, help my unbelief."
1294.380000 1299.780000 And just that simple prayer, I believe, help my unbelief.
1299.780000 1304.400000 It reminds me too of what our pastor referenced in a sermon recently, which is something
1304.400000 1310.420000 my mom told me when I was little, this old prayer of make me want to want to.
1310.420000 1313.860000 There is a desire there, but it is not come to fruition.
1313.860000 1316.820000 There is a belief there, but it is not full belief.
1316.820000 1322.500000 So even those simple prayers of, I believe, help my unbelief can be powerful.
1322.500000 1332.980000 I agree, that is what faith is, being willing to ask for help to believe, the assurance
1332.980000 1335.780000 of things hoped for.
1335.780000 1343.020000 So Jesus taught us how to pray with a Lord's Prayer, one of the most beautiful passages of
1343.020000 1344.020000 Jesus praying.
1344.020000 1350.020000 I mean, Jesus prayed many times in the Bible, we have lots of examples.
1350.020000 1357.140000 He prayed before he raised Lazarus from the dead, that God would use that to teach people
1357.140000 1358.780000 who he was.
1358.780000 1361.940000 He prayed famously in the Garden of Gethsemane.
1361.940000 1364.260000 He prayed on the cross.
1364.260000 1372.980000 But one of the most beautiful passages is in John 17, Jesus prays to the father.
1372.980000 1375.020000 He prays to be glorified.
1375.020000 1381.840000 Father, the hour has come, glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.
1381.840000 1389.100000 He goes on to pray for his disciples, and he prays for us, he prays for all believers.
1389.100000 1394.460000 I think that passage is a beautiful one to read, because it helps us understand how Jesus
1394.460000 1402.180000 prayed for us and can really inspire our prayer life and our hope with sharing a variety
1402.180000 1410.100000 of these prayers, because maybe there's one or two that you can incorporate into your daily
1410.100000 1418.380000 life, whether it's praying before a meal, whether it is setting aside time to pray the way that
1418.380000 1421.260000 Jesus taught us to pray.
1421.260000 1430.220000 Whatever it might be, our hope is that you might look at some new resources this week on prayer
1430.220000 1435.200000 and look up some old prayers that have been written down for us, either in Scripture
1435.200000 1445.120000 or from Christians who came before us, and use that to deepen your relationship with
1445.120000 1450.340000 the Lord and maybe reveal some new things to you as you pray.
1450.340000 1458.660000 And in conclusion, let us pray, Heavenly Father, you are great.
1458.660000 1461.100000 You are powerful.
1461.100000 1464.020000 You are the Lord of our lives.
1464.020000 1470.900000 We thank you for this time to talk about you and the things of you.
1470.900000 1477.860000 We humbly ask that these words that we've spoken today go out into the world and point
1477.860000 1479.500000 people to you.
1479.500000 1482.380000 May you be glorified in all that we do.
1482.380000 1484.180000 In Jesus' name, amen.
1484.180000 1484.420000 Amen.
1484.420000 1506.300000 St. Patrick's breastplate, "I arise today through a mighty strength, the invocation of
1506.300000 1514.380000 the Trinity, through belief in the threeness, through confession of the oneness of the
1514.380000 1517.400000 creator of creation.
1517.400000 1525.380000 I arise today through the strength of Christ's birth with his baptism, through the strength
1525.380000 1532.580000 of his crucifixion with his burial, through the strength of his resurrection with his ascension,
1532.580000 1537.500000 through the strength of his descent for the judgment of doom.
1537.500000 1544.940000 I arise today through the strength of the love of cherubim, in the obedience of angels,
1544.940000 1551.540000 in the service of archangels, in the hope of resurrection to meet with reward, in the prayers
1551.540000 1558.360000 of patriarchs, in the predictions of prophets, in the preaching of apostles, in the faith
1558.360000 1565.580000 of confessors, in the innocence of holy virgins, in the deeds of righteous men.
1565.580000 1573.980000 I arise today through the strength of heaven, the light of the sun, the radiance of the moon,
1573.980000 1583.620000 the splendor of fire, the speed of lightning, the swiftness of wind, the depth of the sea,
1583.620000 1589.380000 the stability of the earth, the firmness of rock.
1589.380000 1598.120000 I arise today through God's strength to pilot me, God's might to uphold me, God's wisdom
1598.120000 1605.560000 to guide me, God's eye to look before me, God's ear to hear me, God's Word to speak for
1605.560000 1614.300000 me, God's hand to guard me, God's shield to protect me, God's host to save me from snares
1614.300000 1623.420000 of devils, from temptation of vices, from everyone who shall wish me ill, afar and near.
1623.420000 1630.740000 I summon today all these powers between me and those evils against every cruel and merciless
1630.740000 1638.620000 power that may oppose my body and soul, against incantations of false prophets, against black
1638.620000 1647.780000 laws of pagandom, against false laws of heretics, against craft of idolatry, against spells of
1647.780000 1655.340000 witches and smiths and wizards, against every knowledge that corrupts man's body and soul.
1655.340000 1664.220000 Christ to shield me today, against poison, against burning, against drowning, against wounding,
1664.220000 1669.960000 so that there may come to me an abundance of reward.
1669.960000 1680.820000 Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ
1680.820000 1690.340000 above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit
1690.340000 1699.140000 down, Christ when I arise, Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the
1699.140000 1707.700000 mouth of everyone who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear
1707.700000 1709.800000 that hears me.
1709.800000 1717.820000 I arise today through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, through belief
1717.820000 1724.820000 in the three-ness, through confession of the oneness of the Creator of creation.
1724.820000 1726.820000 Amen.
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