Make Me A House of Prayer…

Lord, today I awake, and open my mouth in praise

To You O Lord my Savior, My Rock,

I’m amazed…

That you Adonai, High Priest come to dwell

In a temple not made with brick and stones and nails…

But a house of flesh you fashioned me where your love never fails…

Day and night I fast and pray, hear my heart, do not delay…

To answer when I call…

‘Cry unto me and I will answer thee…your prayers are not in vain…’

Jesus, I intercede for all the earth, in your precious, holy, name…

A house of prayer I long to be, where I meet with you and your face I see…

With tears and compassion I proclaim…lives will forever be transformed, changed…

A house of prayer where holy talks are heard as we gather there and walk, in the garden of the house, you’ve ordained to be a house of prayer…

I bring…

My pleas, my heart before you where…

I offer petitions into your tender care…

And wait to hear you say…

You are a house of prayer…

–Marla Shaw O’Neill May 28, 2017

Even those I will bring to My holy mountain And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar; For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.” Isaiah 56:7 New American Standard Bible (NASB) 

Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” declares the Lord. Jeremiah 7:11New American Standard Bible (NASB)

And He *said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a robbers’ den.” Matthew 21:13New American Standard Bible (NASB) 

And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a robbers’ den.”  Mark 11:17New American Standard Bible (NASB)