For my neighbors: You are Adonai

You are Adonai, the All-sufficient God.

Psalm 8 **

• ADONAI! Our Lord! How glorious
• is your name throughout the earth!
• The fame of your majesty
• spreads even above the heavens!

You are Lord. You are Master. You are glorious. Who does not know this? You are our Maker. You have made us in Your image. So how can we not know this, unless we voluntarily and intentionally do not wnat to know.

You are THE LORD. None can contest or stand in objection to this. For a time, there are people, in open defiance, who rebell against Your Lordship. You are above them. You are above everyone else. Your Name rings throughout the earth. Your fame and the knowledge of Your majesty are known and You are without competition.

Psalm 8 **

• When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
• the moon and stars that you set in place—
• what are mere mortals, that you concern yourself with them;
• humans, that you watch over them with such care?

Yes, the heavens declare Your glory. The stars of the nigt sky, the planets, the sun to rule the day, the moon by night. You set each in place –the work of Your hands... and You did it with a Word. How is it, that the God who created all that exists, and who is uncreated, cares for me? You care for me with deep understanding of me. You care for me with tenderness and compassion.

What about my neighbors?
You know them. You know the 14-year old who is missing. You know where he is. O Adonai, please keep him safe. What about the other young people who are disengaged from their parents? You know. They are engulfed in the images on teir technologies. They are captured and chained through the intentional hatred of Your enemy. They do not see the beauty of Your heavens. They do not know the work of Your fingers.

O Adonia, have mercy. Their parents have been captured as well. We have all this technology to capture our spirits and it has done so. Men created technologies that ensnare, enchain, and suffocate the minds and hearts, especially of young people. Our Youth have been taken prisoner. And fear has taken hold of their minds.

In Your land of Israel, again, they too have fallen away. Open our eyes to see the folly in which we are engaged. Open our hearts to feel the emptyness that the world has planted within us. We all need discernment. You are the wisdom from above and we need You. We need Your strength as well as Your wisdom. We need Your presence, visibly in our world and also within our hearts.

Hear my cry to You. Take up this prayer where words fail me. I bow before You ad ask for Your mercy.

Maranatha.

Dear reader, do you want to know Jesus as Savior. You can. Today.
Here is how.



**David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B’rit Hadashah (New Testament), 1st ed. (Clarksville, MD: Jewish New Testament Publications, 1998), Ps 8:1-2, 4–5.



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***This prayer is my own and the content does not reflect the philosophy or policies of any organization.

* David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B’rit Hadashah (New Testament), 1st ed. (Clarksville, MD: Jewish New Testament Publications, 1998), Ps 8:2.