Praying Psalms

“… basically what you are doing [in praying Psalms] is taking words that originated in the heart and mind of God and circulating them through your heart and mind back to God.”

Source: Don Whitney, Praying the Bible

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The Sovereignty of the Triune God over the whole Cosmos

This dominating principle of Calvinism is “the Sovereignty of the Triune God over the whole Cosmos, in all its spheres and kingdoms, visible and invisible.”

Source: Abraham Kuyper (Dutch Theologian)

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Our sins (Isaiah)

(Isa 1:18)               Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

(Isa 38:17)            Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

(Isa 40:2)               Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.

(Isa 43:25)            I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.

(Isa 44:22)            I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.

(Mic 7:19)             He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

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Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you

Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you

As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;

That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend

Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.

I, like an usurp’d town to another due,

Labor to admit you, but oh, to no end;

Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,

But is captiv’d, and proves weak or untrue.

Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov’d fain,

But am betroth’d unto your enemy;

Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,

Take me to you, imprison me, for I,

Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,

Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

^{Source: John Donne (1620s)}

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