Strong in the Strength of Your Power--Jan. 24, 2015

[From Jan. 20, 2007 archive]

Make us strong in you, and in the strength of your power,

that we may walk before you in the light of life, even to our old age.

You have borne us from our birth, carried us from the womb;

you have made us, and you will bear us; you will carry and will save.

You have delivered our souls from death, and our feet from falling.

All you have done is amazing; why do we not proclaim it in the Decapolis?

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 56; 149; 118; 111

Isa. 46:1-13

Eph. 6:10-24

Mark 5:1-20

Selected Verses

Psalm 56:13

For you have delivered my soul from death,

            and my feet from falling,

so that I may walk before God

            in the light of life.

Isaiah 46:3-4

Listen to me, O house of Jacob,

            all the remnant of the house of Israel,  

who have been borne by me from your birth,

            carried from the womb;

even to your old age I am he,

            even when you turn gray I will carry you.

I have made, and I will bear;

            I will carry and will save.

Ephesians 6:10

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power.

Mark 5:20

And [the man who had been possessed by demons] went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.