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Multiply Your Love.

This morning in our gathering we sang this song as a prayer to God. It connected with me on a profoundly deep level this morning...

Multiply Your love through us
To the lost and the least
Let us be Your healing hands
Your instruments of peace

May our single purpose be
To imitate Your life
Through our simple words and deeds
Let love be multiplied

Multiply Your love through me
To someone in need
Help me Lord to freely give
This grace that I've received

Let my single purpose be
To imitate Your life
Through my simple words and deeds
Let love be multiplied

Let us see Your kingdom come
To the poor and broken ones
Let us see a mighty flood
Of justice and mercy, O Jesus
Let love be multiplied
Let love be multiplied

Multiply Your church through us
To the ends of the Earth
Where there's only barrenness
Let us see new birth

Use us as Your laborers
Working side by side
Let us see your harvest come
Let love be multiplied

Multiply Your love through us
Multiply Your love

Amen. Let your kingdom come, let your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Help us live in the way of Jesus.

Holy Saturday.

On the seventh day God rested in the darkness of the tomb,
Having finished on the sixth day all his work of joy and doom;
Now the Word has fallen silent, and the water had run dry,
The bread had all been broken, and the slight had left the sky;
The flock had lost its shepherd, and the seed was sadly sown,
The courtiers had betrayed their king, and nailed him to his throne.
O sabbath rest by Calvary, O calm of tomb below,
Where the grave-clothes and the spices cradle him we do now know!
Rest you well, beloved Jesus: Caesar's Lord and Israel's King,
In the brooding of the Spirit, in the darkness of the spring.

[Tom Wright, Christians at the Cross, pp. 67-8]

As It Is In Heaven.

My friend, Mark Scandrette, penned these words as a prayer for the week. I could not agree more. Lord, let your Kingdom come in me.