House of Prayer

When loneliness comes calling

And sickness makes you lame…

When life is all but gracious

Pray in Jesus name

When trials come to test you

Think it not strange

Suffering and sorrow, will come to cause you pain

Remember, always, to pray in Jesus name…

My house shall be called, A House of Prayer

And when you raise your voice and cry…

God knows every heart ache, your burdens he bears…

Remember you are His,

His house shall be called, a house of prayer.

Humbled and surrendered

Contrite and pure of heart…

Each morning you will hear,

As Goodness and Mercy draw near

On the altar in the temple, Child, give me all your care…

God and the angels are listening,

Oh make me a house of prayer

Have faith; and believe…

Pray, without ceasing, keep yourself clean

No place for robbers and thieves…

Your heart is where I’ll be seen…

Then, you’ll be, a house of prayer

My chosen, my redeemed!!!

~Marla Shaw O’Neill August 21, 2018

Isaiah 56:7 King James Version (KJV) Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

Matthew 21:12-13 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) Jesus went into the temple complex and drove out all those buying and selling in the temple. He overturned the money changers’ tables and the chairs of those selling doves. And He said to them, “It is written, My house will be called a house of prayer, But you are making it a den of thieves!”