From 4c4aea0e21ad693be52e4308df31d0b56cd6804b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gary Talent Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2025 21:34:25 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Add PoC-20251116 --- PHBC/PoCs/PoC-20251116.md | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) create mode 100644 PHBC/PoCs/PoC-20251116.md diff --git a/PHBC/PoCs/PoC-20251116.md b/PHBC/PoCs/PoC-20251116.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ec1b412 --- /dev/null +++ b/PHBC/PoCs/PoC-20251116.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ + +Text: Genesis 19:12-26 + +## Prayer +Father, + +We come to You now to recognize that we are people of a fallen world. +In accord with the world that we were born of, we are sinners that seek to +delight our hearts outside of You and Your prescriptions. +You are merciful to warn us not to set our hopes on a fallen world and provide +means of escape. +We are stubborn, doubting You and clinging to a world who's destruction is +sure. +You are again merciful to seize our hearts when we do not listen. + +We remain fickle in our conviction of Your warnings though. +We have a love for the dying world that will inevitably fail us, and we +continue to ponder what it offers. +We carry the inclination to again gaze upon that from which we must depart. +We doubt You and we ponder the hopes of the flesh. + +Though we often lack contentment, we are complacent. +We purpose our days to satisfy desires rooted in a world that we must depart +from. +We set our cravings and delight on that which is of this world, rather than +pouring ourselves into eternal good. +We delight in possessions and entertainment and vacations, and we let the +eternal weightiness of our brothers' faithfulness fall by the wayside. +We neglect warning others of the wrath to come. +We are embarrassed to speak of Your judgment. + +We live as if these few decades in our fallen bodies are the only years we will +ever live. +We live as though all that we ever do, we must do now, having little hope for +the surpassing majesty of the eternity that You have planned for us. +We work for advancement in the fallen world, giving insufficient thought to +investment in the world to come. +We pay little mind to the rewards of the age to come. + +We revel in the faded glories of history, seldom recognizing that the glories +of the great empires of this age and ages past as the paltry things that they +are compared to the glory of the kingdom to come. + +Now, we ask that You forgive us. +We ask because of the blood of Your Son, which was shed for us. +You seized our hearts to awaken us to our peril, now keep hold and ensure that +we press on to the safety that You prescribe. + +It is in the name Your righteous Son, Christ Jesus that we pray. +Amen.