Psalm
Blessed be the Lord, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was beset as a city under siege.
Psalm 31:21
Meditation
We have given no time to meditation or to self-examination. We have been too slothful, mentally, to make an effort to fix in our minds, clearly, the essential truths on which prayer is based: God is. He is a Person. He is here. He has promised to hear me when I call on him. He cannot lie. He loves to give good gifts to his needy children. He has heard and answered prayer. He has answered my prayers. He has invited me to ask him for what I need.
J.H. Garrison, Alone With God, 57
Scripture
Those twelve stones, which they had taken out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal, saying to the Israelites, “When your children ask their parents in time to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’ then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel crossed over the Jordan here on dry ground.’ 23For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we crossed over, so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, and so that you may fear the Lord your God forever.”
Joshua 4:20-24
Prayer
Lord God, as you delivered Israel over the Jordan, so may I rely on you through prayer to deliver me this day from every evil.
Tags: Deliverance, J.H. Garrison
