Lutheran Chapel Church

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"Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come under judgment, but has passed from death to life." John 5:24

 

The Psalms were our Lord Jesus’ prayer book, and when we pray them we pray together with him, with the prophets, and apostles, and with all the people of God now and through the ages. The words of the psalms give expression to sorrow and joy, to persecution and deliverance, to faith and hope, and always to the praise of God. Every psalm will certainly not match our feelings on a particular day. But when we cannot pray them for ourselves we can pray them for others, and as we pray the words themselves work on us, becoming our own words for those day when these will be our heart-felt prayers.

For All the Saints, comments Pr. Frederick Schumaker

Semper in ore psalmus, Semper in corde Christus - Always a psalm on the lips, always Christ in the heart.