What Men May Be Overdue in Praying--Aug. 2, 2018

Hear our prayer, O God.

You know everyone's heart;

in your faithfulness, listen to us;

in your righteousness, answer us,

even if your answer is neither what

we expect nor what we desire to hear,

and even if the glory is to another,

even if that other is a woman,

for women were faithful  

followers of  Jesus.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 143; 147:12-20; 81; 116

Judges 4:4-23

Acts 1:15-26

Matt. 27:55-66

Selected Verses

Ps. 143:1

 Hear my prayer, O LORD;
          give ear to my supplications in your faithfulness;
          answer me in your righteousness. 

Judges 4:8-9a

Barak said to [Deborah], "If you will go with me, I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go."  And she said, "I will surely go with you; nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman." 

Acts 1:24-25

Then [the believers] prayed and said, "Lord, you know everyone's heart.  Show us which one of these two you have chosen to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place."

Matt. 27:55, 59-61

Many women were also there [at the crucifixion], looking on from a distance; they had followed Jesus from Galilee and had provided for him.  … So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock.  He then rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb and went away.  Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.