The Eyes of Our Hearts--Nov. 25, 2010

O God, let your ears be attentive to our supplications.
We pray you, give us a spirit of wisdom, a spirit of
revelation, as we come to know you; so with the
eyes of our hearts enlightened, we will know
the hope to which you have called us.

Forbid that we should resist your kingship;
but if we do, then refine us as one refines silver;
test us as gold is tested. We will call on your name;
and you will answer us; and you will say, “They are my
people”; and we will say, “The Father of glory is our God.”

Lectionary Readings
Psalms 116, 147:12-20, 26, 130
Zechariah 13:1-9
Ephesians 1:15-23
Luke 19:11-27

Selected Verses
Psalm 130:2b
Let your ears be attentive
      to the voice of my supplications!

Zechariah 13:9
And I will put this third into the fire,
      refine them as one refines silver,
      and test them as gold is tested.
They will call on my name,
      and I will answer them.
I will say, “They are my people”;
      and they will say, “The LORD is our God.”

Ephesians 1:17-18a
I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him, so that with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which he has called you…

Luke 19:27
But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and slaughter them in my presence.