Why Is The Rapture Important? (With Greg Laurie)
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- Опубліковано 11 кві 2024
- Why is the rapture important? Everyone is talking about it and yet there seems to be so much misinformation about the subject. Pastor Greg Laurie shines some much-needed clarity on this subject.
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Are you ready for the rapture?
As ready as I'm ever gonna be!! Let's go!!
You betcha I’m ready to leave this evil world!
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I cannot wait...What a Glorious Day!
@@corbingardner I can’t wait to be changed, there is a generation that will not see death
I just found out that I have cancer. So be it. I’m now more concerned than ever about my grandchildren. I know where I am going, and my kids. My grandchildren are not being raised the same. God, give me the strength to minister to them before it’s too late. Amen.
Prayers for the Lord to give you strength and healing . God bless your heart for your grandchildren ❤🙏
God bless you & your family ❤
God words says that u are already heal !!!Jesus took all our infinite on the cross!!!!
I have kids don't want to have a relationship with God 😢but God words says that as for me and my household will be safe❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Be BOLD❤️
@ deandennis2838
So be it. You know where you are going, you know whom you have believed brother! 🙏 for you and yours!
I’ve been ready for decades now. One day I’m going to blink and I’ll be in the presence of the Lamb forever. Maranatha!
Everyone it’s gotta be soon. It Has to happen during 2024 and I think it’s really really close. I believe it’s really really close. Let’s all cry out to God let’s all pray to Jesus! Let’s be on fire for Christ in these last days!
@@corbingardner Waiting, and watching, for the rapture is a way of living!
@@VictoriousWatchmanOnTheHill-43I think it’s close also. Could be at anytime, but I think within the next 3 years. If you think about it. Jesus said as in the days of Noah. How bad does it have to really get? 🤔
@@VictoriousWatchmanOnTheHill-43wrong. Won't happen in 2024. Stop speaking false truths
@@corbingardner oh it will. Especially when God pours out his wrath on the earth.
I'M SO READY BUT I'M SO CONCERNED FOR MY LOVED ONES AND ANYONE ELSE THAT ISN'T SAVED. YET... FATHER WORK IN ME AND WORK THROUGH ME FATHER TO LEAD OTHERS TO YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS ❤❤❤❤
Yes, Sandra I feel it too. I think of it every day. But I don't know. Jesus will judge their hearts. Some things I am preparing on this earthly plain; because I won't be here but maybe they will. Peace be with you sister in Christ.
@@antrygis1 AMEN PEACE BE WITH YOU AS WELL IN JESUS NAME GOD BLESS YOU
I have family and friends who are not followers of Jesus. When we vanish off the planet when Jesus returns, can you imagine the testimony the rapture will have on those left behind? Perhaps God will use them to spread his word after he has returned. Don't worry, he will take care of your loved ones.
@lynnettecook6973 AMEN I CAN JUST IMAGINE LET'S CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS IN JESUS NAME
I feel the same.
The presence of the Holy Spirit is strong as well as the spirits of deception... I pray for us all, and lean on the strength of the Lord to carry us and guide us through these times of sorrow. ❤😊
Praying for my daughter carla to be saved as she is not listening and living her life away from Him. Please send someone to save her Lord I pray
My daughter was recently killed in a tragic accident and I just can't wait for the rapture it's excruciating being apart 💔 thank you for your teaching
@nancymerchant7444 I’m so sorry for your loss 😢. I can’t imagine 💔. May God bless you and comfort you 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
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She is so safe, morn but live and be best you can be. Jesus isnt finished working through you. I love all my bro. sisters. Stay strong.
Waiting and watching and trying to tell others but not many listen or want to 😢
It is going to be glorious! God bless you❤
It's not your job to convince, only to witness
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AMEN SAME HERE
God bless you for caring Mary💜
I prayed to recommit my life to Jesus. Take care everybody, stay safe and God bless us ALL.
God be close to you, my Brother, here from East Tennessee 🎺👑 🇮🇱
Maranatha !
You are not saying goodbye? Brother, we stay until Jesus takes us. Altogether, or alone but Jesus decided. We stay no matter how bad. Just making sure you aren't thinking o😮. I care ❣️
Jason, none of us can be what we'd like to be or what we will be, until Jesus comes and gives us our glorified bodies. We get through one day at a time. Remember, God will not put more on us than we can handle. Take care
@@PhyllisJohnson-lr9bq Thank you, Maranatha and God bless you.
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@@michellegrace4262 No, I apologize. I'm not going anywhere. I see now, how my comment could be taken the wrong way. I just care and have a deep love for people. I always have, so when I end a comment, I have a certain way I like to sign off.
I do that because I want whoever is reading it to know, they are seen, loved and cared for. No matter how bad it gets, there is always hope and with Jesus, ALL things are possible !! Above all NEVER GIVE UP and NEVER LET GO ! But thank you, so much ! I definitely feel the love...this made my night !...Smiling. 🙏🤴❤ 🕊🇮🇱
I am so excited for Jesus to come!! Please remember my husband who is dying of Cancer. Stage 4. Thank you.
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Prayer said! ❤
🙏🙏We will pray for him.....
Praying for you sharon. My husband has cancer also. My mom is with us too. She has heart diseae and is on hospice. Caring for these two is hard at times but God has giving me alot of love for them. My fear is being by myself soon. I pray God comforts you during this time. Huge hugs too you.
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God called my precious 54 year old daughter home 10 months ago. I have never felt closer to God than during her unexpected, brief, seven week illness. Christ walked every step of the way with us and carried us on those days when we could not take another step. His goodness, grace and mercy abounds. I miss her terribly, but I know where she is and I know I will be joining her one day soon. I chose not to question God‘s reasoning or timing for this and know that someday it will be made clear to me…BUT for God, I would never be able to endure this emotional pain. Come quickly Lord Jesus. I love you with all my heart and soul🙏💝👵🏻
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I believe this generation will see the rapture. Praying that more people come into the Kingdom and are ready for whenever that great day comes.
Thanks for the message Pastor Greg!
Believe all you want that the blue sky has the color of green. A belief never produced smartphone or car. Only knowledge of truth, and rapture theory is not true but fake thanks to twisted reading of select few passages of the bible. If people could just read the bible and question rapture on their own study.....
I pray more people come to Christ and we all are waiting for Jesus and the Rapture. What a Glorious Day! Amen
YES AMEN
amen hearining impaired
Most hearty amen.
Amen, Come Lord Jesus
You will be severely disappointed when there is no rapture, it is a false doctrine.
Thank you for your message, Pastor Greg. This message will never get old or be irrelevant. It's God's truth about our future. It's biblical. We believe.❤
Absolutely incorrect! Pastor Greg has given you a false hope of a rapture that will not happen. It is NOT a Bible doctrine!
@ cindys.9688
Well said sister! ❤
My wife died and I want to be with her again this world is painful for me to live in anymore mostly heartbroken
God bless you. My heart is hurting for you. May God give you much love and comfort you. May he bless you with everything you need. The Bible says that he is as close as your breath. He is close to the brokenhearted. He will send His angels to comfort you. He's holding you in His loving, Almighty hands. I pray for much love to come to you ❤. God bless you in His Holy Name 💖 May He give you His peace.
My heart is with you. Praying for your peace beyond expectation ❤️
Peace upon you
We Cristans Live you.❤❤❤❤
Love you..
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I understand your pain. But just know if you hold on tight to the Lord He will see you through your pain and then you will see her again. Thank you Jesus Amen 🙏
Come Lord Jesus!!!
❤ come Jesus come!!! I 🙏 pray we all will be ready. This is good news.
I am on the front lines of the battle ground, please pray for Truth setting my family free forever. ❤
My son Matthew was saved at a Greg Laurie event 30 years ago in Sacramento when he was 14. I miss my son.
So sorry.....hes with Christ
@@christinesullivan5429 actually, I don’t know if he is with Jesus. 5 years after he accepted Christ he was diagnosis with a very serious mental illness. It is a very broken system and I don’t know where he is now. I do know that he is one of God’s sheep and that God knows where he is. I hope to be reunited with him one day soon.
@@theresasmee456
He accepted the Lord Jesus before he got mentally ill. Rest assure, he is with the Lord sister! 😊
Our Lord is coming.
And they all know it and the elites who lives in darkness can escape. Jesus Christ the Hope of the World, the Prince of Peace. I have called upon His power many times and witnesses His miracles, all because I had the audacity to Believe like a child would.
I have seen too much in my life to change. I watch the Lord literally being my dying wife back to life and started crying and begging and I will never forget, it sounded like a living father or unimaginable power beyond comprehension entered the room that night . I have never felt a presence with such peace and absolute power. I called on Jesus Himself, and he was there in 1 seconds behind me.
"Joeseph, my son, call her name. Call Veronica and I shall allow her to hear your voice.
Then it abruptly paused for a second and said "Don't be afraid. Stick two of your fingers in her mouth and tell her to bite down as hard as she can." I acted without hesitation, no debate, no discussion.
When she came back, drenched in sweat and completely nauseated and with zero memory of what just happened, the hospital found out what happened.
She has a geans maul seizure in her sleep. This is incredibly rare, is typically, And as saw both sides of her tongue bleeding. We later learned whatever was in her (this was spiritual warfare, completely) attempted to bite her tongue in half, so zhe would bleed to death.
I will never forget the moment I heard the voices of Jesus say "All authority and power is mine, my son. Your faith didn't allow the Enemy to claim her. It is finished. Hear me, I come quickly. Remember this moment and tell my people I am coming."
This was 2 years ago. It is a true testimony, it is freed to be shared. It happened. Jesus is real, the Enemy came to claim her soul for dabbling in the occult in her younger life. Jesus CANCELLED it by HIS BLOOD, and a desperate mind who has the child like faith to call out to the Lord, as I held her head and watched her contort, eyes rolled back solid white, and the muscles making inhuman smiling faces while doing this to her, all completely impossible, yat happened.
He told me to tell you all "I AM coming."
I talked to my sisters about Christ and to look for a Bible believing church. Not to wait for their husband's to make a decision for them. One's atheist and the other likes the way his life is. My sisters don't want conflict or rock the boat. All I can do is pray that they need Jesus .
How many thousands of protestant churches claim to be "Bible believing" but each have their own interpretation. The rapture is an invention of Darby in the 18 hundreds.
Believe in Jesus Christ alone for the gift of everlasting life.
My sentiments exactly!!! As I Pray for the Salvation of my loved ones I’ll be Praying for yours also…
Pastor Greg, I wonder how we deal with our loved ones that didn’t receive Christ. It saddens me … I pray for our prodigals and those others that have similar situations.
We need more sermon like this. Thank you.
Praying and watching as Scripture teaches, soon and very soon 😊❤❤
🙏 that many will yield now and find Yeshua with open arms bringing you promise eternal life. PTL
The church needs to spread the word! To your friends and family🙏
Please pray for my son Cade as although he was raised to love Jesus, he isn't walking with the Lord.
Amen I pray each day, that my children and grandchildren will be ready, i'am ready, I have been going through so much, pain and sorrow, my beloved husband and Son went to be with the Lord, we the blessing assurance, that we will with our Lord in heaven, where there no death no more sorrow no more pain!
I've listened to Pastor Greg Laurie since the 1980s on WABS SON LIGHT 780 am Arlington VA/ Washington DC along with Pastor Chuck Smith, Pastor Mike Macintosh, Pastor Skip Heitzig, Pastor Jon Courson, Pastor Raul Ries and Pastor Jim O Keefe.
My Mom, whom was (and still is) my bestest friend passed away a year ago unexpectedly. I miss her. Most of me died the day she did. I just want the Rapture to happen so I can be with her again and my Savior and Lord, Jesus. This world is awful and makes me sad.
Thank you Pastor for sharing the gospel message today
The more wars, natural disasters and violence we see that the prophecies are fulfilled. Jesus is returning to rapture all Christians to be in heaven with Him! Pray for all the lost souls, all around us!
WELL SAID!!! JESUS CHRIST IS RETURNING SOON TO RAPTURE HIS CHURCH-even sO COME QUICKLY LORD JESUS
I'm ready....
Praying for your son cade and my daughter carla
We're currently in the beginning of sorrows.
Rejoice in the Lord and be exceedingly glad.
Please be to our Heavenly Father
Hallelujah to the Lamb of God
Blessed is the Holy Spirit
Hosanna!!
very encouraging message. Thank you for keeping and preaching the truth about the rapture.
I had a neighbor who was a preacher and we were talking about God and the Bible scriptures and he told me the rapture in the Bible won’t actually happen the way the apostle Paul talks about which he was inspired by the Holy Spirit of God to write in the Bible. My preacher neighbor said he could explain it away! I never asked him how that would work but we never talked about God’s Word ever again. I just didn’t want the pollution in my life. I would just hello pastor whenever I saw him and 1-2 years later he moved away. I hope the Holy Spirit will correct him soon!!!
Many false pastors/teachers out there sadly 😢. Jesus told us there would be in the last days.
GOD IS MORE PATIENT THAT I AM! But He wants MORE SOULS to get there ..
HE is waiting on that last one .I wonder WHO that last soul will be?!
I don't want to lose my faith, or die.
Based on the unprecedented convergence of biblical prophetic signs, it is MUCH more likely for the harpazo to take place 10 days from now than "10 years". With the prophetic stage setting that is taking place all around us in this unprecedented convergence, it is extremely difficult to come up with a scenario that would extend the calendar 10 years before the church is caught up. Maranatha!!!
I need a miracle, everything has gotten too confusing and painful
In The Mighty Name Of Jesus Christ when the Day Our Savior gather His children I Pray that everyone will be ready Amen Amen Amen
So good! always relevant.
I made a recommitment to Jesus; I was living a life that was not honoring God and asked for forgiveness. Thank you for this message.
Thank you, lord God, for the Jesus Movement! Bless Pastor Laurie❣️
I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior amen
thank u sir
Thank you Pator... I am so ready to go.
FAITH, IN YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST, LOVE MERCY, MY BELOVED FRIENDS, PATIENCE, KISSES AND HUGS OF MY LIGHT TO YOU ALL, STAY IN YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST, PEACE AND GRACE, FOR, FATHER GOD GLÓRY, AMÉN, ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Our Father says to His Son, go get Your bride.
Amen oh yes!
What a day that will be!!!
@ RickySmith-zi5cz
And the bride is waiting! 🤗
Thank you! ❤ I need this.
I will be ready 🎉🎉
Amen…come Lord Jesus…Maranatha 🙏🏻🙌🏼🥰💕
Amen 🙏 come quickly Lord Jesus
I'm so ready !
We better not be living the same
We need to be right with God,
Jesus is coming 🎉🎉
I never understood why so many Christians were so against this. I get that some people get over excited about it and they make movies and get it wrong, but it’s very common among a lot of organized church groups in the world to just tell people not to study this stuff or not to concentrate on it, why do we have so many profits, talking about it an entire book of revelation and John writing this, it’s all in our Bible so why are so many churches against people learning about it? It makes no sense to me. They like to call it eschatology and pretend like it something bad it’s just another part of the Bible and it’s the part that talks about what is to come. It’s in there for a reason Jesus sat at the amount of olives And told us all this stuff. Why so many churches think we should just ignore it? It’s weird to me. This is a big part of the Bible and like the rest of the Bible we should learn it. It just seems like common sense to me but many church organizations resisted for whatever reason.
There are 7 blessings pronounced upon those who read the book beginning with Revelation 1:3. You rob yourself if you don’t read and study this wonderful book!
Satan has his fingerprints all over this! He can't do anything to stop our rapture, so he's grabbing at straws andxsnatching our blessed hope. It was given to us by God, I don't care what anyone else is saying. The world didn't give me that blessing, and they can't take it away! I'm here Lord. Come Lord Jesus! Hallelujah and amen.
I love Jesus!
Blessed start to finish my brother ❤🎉
Since we are encompassed by such a great cloud of witnesses let’s lay aside every sin/weight and run this race that has been set before us with /endurance looking to Jesus
Turn on the news closer than ever.
Please pray for me and my son and ex wife..
They don’t know what I know and it’s so hard not to have anxiety.
Loved the Jesus Revolution!
John 14:22-29, Hebrews 9:27-28
”But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.“
Matthew 6:6 KJV
@ QueenLadySummer329
Amen and Amen! ❤
Thank you for the great teaching
Great message
Please use this message
The rapture is very important for all on earth .Because, At future ,we live with Jesus in Kingdom Heaven. God bless to Paster Greg Laurie.
Yes, I am!
My dad is 95, just entering assisted living. He just broke his pelvis after falling. He is too old for the doctors to do surgery. He's miserable and wants to die. When I mention Jesus and that he could be possibly in paradise tomorrow... he shrugs and says "not for me". I know God is keeping him alive for a conversion, I just don't know what to say any longer. Some people just don't anything to do with a Holy Divine God, they just see rules and judgement completely overlooking the love, grace and mercy.
Pray that God would draw him....
If you ask him if u could read the Bible to him? Or ask why he feels it's not for him? Did u grow up in a religion/cult
@@sarahamesmer I believe it's ego, if God cared about him, God would have reach out first supernaturally. Billions don't admit God reached out first.
I wished there was a Calvary Chapel by me. So many Christian churches are not consistent on the rapture, gifts of the spirit, etc.
All we can do is Pray...❤❤❤❤❤
Yes come Lord Jesus
I was already Young dream about rapture till now im 50 & I was crying on that dream, I accepted Jesus when I was 16 but till now why Im still afraid of rapture?Pls Pastor pray for me
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Maranatha
Spread the gospel to everyone especially your family and friends
Thank you
There's going to be. Lot of. Tears people love this guy.
Amen
I always say "snooze you lose" too😅
Amen!🙏🦋
Thank you for another great message! And thank you for reminding me of our reunion with loved ones. But you forgot to mention our fur babies.. they’re up there too, right?😊
Aman
Even so, come LORD JESUS CHRIST.Come Quickly LORD JESUS CHRIST.we need yiu to take usout of this World 🌍 and to HEAVEN.things are getting uglier and uglier.
Stating, “I pray”, and then no actively praying, is not praying
@ kathrynbraun2073
That is true!
Amen 🙏
In 1976, when I was 13 years old, I had a wide awake, real, in full color VISION of the Lord's Return...
We lived out in the country in the middle of dusty plowed fields, dirt roads and woods in south Georgia. Everything looked kind of brown and crispy, like it needed rain bad. The corn field across the road in front of the house was starting to turn brown and die.
I went to my bedroom, which faced out the front side of the house and looked out onto our front yard, which had a semi-circular dirt driveway and beside the left entrance was an old dogwood tree which had to be at least a hundred years old. Highway 341 ran from east to west in front of our house, which faced north, and the cornfield I spoke of earlier was on the other side of the highway. There was a slight rise in the middle of this field and you could not see the trees on the other side, so it looked like an ocean of corn that went off into the horizon.
As I lay across my bed looking out the window, contemplating what I saw before me, I began to hear music in the distance. I specifically heard it in my right ear and the direction from which it came made me think of the high school band which practiced several miles southeast from where I lived. When conditions were right we could hear the band playing, but usually only heard the faint beat of drums. This sounded like trumpets and as I was thinking this to myself, I began to notice the music getting louder and louder, coming closer and closer, very quickly.
Within a few seconds the sound wasn't just something that was exterior, but it was inside my head as well, reverberating throughout my entire body. It was so loud and it sounded like lightning crashed directly over my head and, in that split second, the trumpet sound thundered throughout my body and throughout the entire world...everything went dark and my bed and the earth shook violently.
In a flash, I was no longer lying on my bed, but I was standing outside my bedroom window in the front yard and I beheld the scene in front of me with tremendous awe. It was still my front yard, only now everything was different. It seemed as if my entire range of vision was a huge 3D movie screen and I was in the middle of it.
The trumpets continued to sound and I saw that the blue, sunny sky had turned black and the clouds churned and the wind blew with a violence that I had never experienced. The corn field was now a sea of wheat that was golden brown and ripe for harvest and I could see every stalk of wheat individually, billions of them. And I watched as the wind thrashed the wheat until it was beaten down by the storm. I now know that the Bible speaks several times about, in the end time, when the wheat is ripe for harvest, how the wheat will be separated from the tares. The tares are gathered and bundled together for burning and the wheat is gathered into the barn.
Then I noticed the dogwood tree. It was mid-July, so of course I know there should not have been any blossoms on it, they usually bloom around Easter...but the tree was in full bloom. I had never seen anything like this. You couldn't see any leaves on the tree because of the millions of dogwood blossoms. It looked as if it were lit from within, by a glowing whitest of white, neon light and it glowed gloriously against the darkened sky. Now, I know the Bible says no man knows the day nor hour that Jesus will return, but if we watch for the signs, we can know the season. I have always felt that He might come back in the spring when the dogwood tree is in bloom. Of all the things that could have been highlighted in a vision; why the dogwood tree? I believe there is a specific message here. (Update: recently, I prayed about this and I feel the Lord placed into my spirit that this represents the fullness of the gentiles coming in).
Just as I was taking all of this in, lightning filled the sky and the trumpets thundered over head again and in an instant there appeared two angels. They were dressed in white robes, facing each other up in the air and blowing golden trumpets. They were huge and filled the sky in front of me and I knew that the entire world must be seeing this as well. When I say huge, I mean like the size of the highest mountains, literally.
I didn't think the trumpets could get any louder, but they grew louder still, building to a great crescendo and I heard a great shout that was louder than anything that you could imagine. And with that shout, it's as if the earth fell silent, the black, violent clouds began to roll back onto themselves from the center of the northeastern sky and I saw light in the distance. It was more a combination of light and clearing of the clouds in the distance that got my attention. As I looked up at this shaft of light and clearing sky, I saw what seemed to be fluttering and movement in the distance. As it came into view, I saw Jesus on a white horse and behind him were millions of angels and saints on white horses. It was at this moment, when I realized what I was seeing, that it disappeared and I was back in my room lying on my bed. Everything was back to normal and I was again looking out at a bright, sunny day.
That’s funny! “You better be fast”!
I have had several people who have gone to Heaven.
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This is Awesome Jeff,Love,Love,Love seeing Your Posts..Thank You for sharing,Prayers for You to continue your mission,to bring the Lords Love and Light to inmates,as well as us all! Thank You for your inspirational words..❤U Joz
This this is awesome Jeff, Thank you for sharing Your story with everyone. I only pray this hits home , With many of our young people who are going through their own trials These days.. Know,there is a better way,REACH OUT ...AND PRAY
THANK YOU JEFF,for your new mission in life..Prayers for You and all those that are struggling with Life .Thank You Lord ,for Jeff❤
Faith alone in Jesus Christ alone for the gift of everlasting life. Everlasting life is life everlasting so once you have it, you can never lose it.
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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been severely attacked for believing in the rapture. I’ve been condemned and called evil, even a child of Satan. I thought, would a true Christian ever do that? I doubt it.
Films are a good way to reach the people.. it is through films / TV that the woke agenda is being spread. So, why not fight fire with fire and spread the good news with the media. Amen.
Psalm 142:1-7
[1]I cry aloud to the Lord;
I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy.
[2]I pour out before him my complaint;
before him I tell my trouble.
[3]When my spirit grows faint within me,
it is you who watch over my way.
In the path where I walk
people have hidden a snare for me.
[4]Look and see, there is no one at my right hand;
no one is concerned for me.
I have no refuge;
no one cares for my life.
[5]I cry to you, Lord;
I say, “You are my refuge,
my portion in the land of the living.”
[6]Listen to my cry,
for I am in desperate need;
rescue me from those who pursue me,
for they are too strong for me.
[7]Set me free from my prison,
that I may praise your name.
Then the righteous will gather about me
because of your goodness to me.
Amen