At Summerland Church, our motto is "Love is Spoken Here." This message is engraved in the stone we cross as we enter the church and is displayed as a banner on our website for those who access our worship online. Speaking love is both our motto and our mission.
To continue speaking love in meaningful ways, we will all benefit from a conversation with God. Talking and listening to God will help us better express love because God is the author and supreme expression of love. Here is my message inviting people to set a time and make a plan for a conversation with God.
Below is a prayer from scripture you are invited to echo as you grow in prayer. What other prayers are meaningful to you?
Psalm 57
Message Translation
1-3 Be good to me, God—and now!
I’ve run to you for dear life.
I’m hiding out under your wings
until the hurricane blows over.
I call out to High God,
the God who holds me together.
He sends orders from heaven and saves me,
he humiliates those who kick me around.
God delivers generous love,
he makes good on his word.
4 I find myself in a pride of lions
who are wild for a taste of human flesh;
Their teeth are lances and arrows,
their tongues are sharp daggers.
5 Soar high in the skies, O God!
Cover the whole earth with your glory!
6 They booby-trapped my path;
I thought I was dead and done for.
They dug a mantrap to catch me,
and fell in headlong themselves.
7-8 I’m ready, God, so ready,
ready from head to toe,
Ready to sing, ready to raise a tune:
“Wake up, soul!
Wake up, harp! wake up, lute!
Wake up, you sleepyhead sun!”
9-10 I’m thanking you, God, out loud in the streets,
singing your praises in town and country.
The deeper your love, the higher it goes;
every cloud is a flag to your faithfulness.
11 Soar high in the skies, O God!
Cover the whole earth with your glory!
