Psalm 84

This is the prayer of thanksgiving and supplication for the church from Psalm 84:1.
Oh Lord, I thank you for choosing the church as your habitation in these days. For the beginning of your promise to dwell eternally among your people is initially realized with the church. And it is your dwelling among us; the redeemed, the justified, the holy ones that makes the church a thing of beauty. How lovely is your dwelling place.
I pray that you will continue to open the eyes and hearts of your church that they would see the ways which you are in dwelling your church. Because it is your presence that will encourage us. It is your active involvement in our lives, individually and collectively, that will lead us beyond out limited self to carry the message of the Kingdom to the world.
Display your beauty in the lives that make up the church. Not just in the singers and music but also in the arts; drawing, painting, dancing, sculpture, speech, poetry, and chanting. Father open our eyes to the other displays of your beauty that you have instilled in each believer. And may we embrace them in our corporate gathers for your glory.
Stuart