You Are Worthy, Our Lord and God--Oct. 31, 2017

Our Lord and God, you are worthy

to receive glory and honor and power;

by your will you have created all things.

Your good seeds have fallen on us, O God.

May we work diligently, and may the seeds

grow and prosper in our hands and bear fruit.

Happy are those whose help

and whose hope is in you.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 12; 146; 36; 7

Ezra 5:1-17

Rev. 4:1-11

Matt. 13:1-9

Selected Verses

Ps. 146:5

 Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
          whose hope is in the LORD their God…

Ezra 5:8

"…May it be known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God.  It is being built of hewn stone, and timber is laid in the walls; this work is being done diligently and prospers in their hands.  …"  [Report sent to King Darius]

Rev. 4:10-11

…the twenty-four elders fall before the one who is seated on the throne and worship the one who lives for ever and ever; they cast their crowns before the throne, singing,
"You are worthy, our Lord and God,
          to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
          and by your will they existed and were created."

Matt. 13:8

Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.