Prosper the Work of Our Hands--Nov. 2, 2019

Lord Jesus Christ, Lamb of God,

When we have much to do, but our burdens are heavy, 

 and our lives full of rubbish, and our strength failing,

then guide us to your springs of the water of life.

To the degree that our work is for your kingdom,

let your favor be upon us; may it be yeast

to leaven the work of our hands.

Lectionary Readings 

Ps. 63; 149; 125; 90

Neh. 4:1-23

Rev. 7:4-17

Matt. 13:31-35

Selected Verses 

Ps. 90:17

Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
          and prosper for us the work of our hands —
          O prosper the work of our hands!

Neh. 4:10

But Judah said, “The strength of the burden bearers is failing, and there is too much rubbish so that we are unable to work on the wall.”

Rev. 7:17

“…for the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd,
          and he will guide them to springs of the water of life,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”  [One of the elders, to the narrator]

Matt. 13:33

[Jesus] told [the crowd] another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.”