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Opening Prayer: Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and our shield.  For our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name.  Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you. (Psalm 33:20-22)

Scripture: Psalm 33:20-22

Journal: Where is your hope these days?  What are you trusting in for your life?  How is God your help these days?  Your shield?  How in touch are you with his steadfast love?

Reflection: All the exercises of the spiritual life, our reading and our praying, our willing and doing, have their very great value.  But they can go no farther than this, that they point the way and prepare us in humility to look and to depend alone upon God himself, and impatience to wait his good time and mercy.  The waiting is to teach us our absolute dependence upon God’s mighty working, and to make us in perfect patience place ourselves at his disposal. (Waiting on God by Andrew Murray)

Prayer

Closing Prayer: We’re depending on you, God; you are everything we need.  What’s more, our hearts brim with joy since we’ve taken for our own your holy name.  Love us, God, with all you’ve got—that’s what we’re depending on. (The Message)