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Worship Programs
Theme:
"Kingdom Power"
Watch Night -
Drama
PSALM 119 REVISITED
By Rebecca Phillips
Adapted from Psalm 119:9-11,33-37,73, 105
Watch Night / December 31, 2003
Lights up on two characters that stand arm’s length apart. Both face audience and are unaware of the other. Reader’s Theater style. These lines are to move rhythmically. No heavy pauses. Prayerful.
ONE
Your hands made me –
TWO
With your ageless, creative hands, you formed me –
ONE
Sculpted me –
TWO
Intricately designed me
BOTH
In your image.
ONE
You knew me before time’s clock began ticking –
TWO
And with your captivating breath –
ONE
The breath that spoke universes unknown in to existence –
TWO
The breath that shakes the galaxies with thunder –
ONE
The breath that spins stars and planets and trees and butterflies in to place –
TWO
The breath that sings orchestras of perfection in to tiny sparrows –
ONE
And tiny baby gurgles and the secret songs of the wind –
TWO
With that same breath –
BOTH
You spoke my name.
ONE
And you tenderly –
TWO
And passionately
ONE
Breathed purpose
TWO
Destiny
ONE
Into my fragile frame.
TWO
You have chosen me –
ONE
Called me –
BOTH
Your own.
ONE
And You have chosen me –
TWO
To call others –
ONE
To challenge others –
TWO
To lead others –
BOTH
To you.
ONE
But Lord, I struggle.
TWO
I see who I am –
ONE
But You see who I can become.
BOTH
Show me.
ONE
How can I keep my way pure?
TWO
Too many distractions bombarding me –
ONE
Misguiding me –longing to destroy me.
TWO
But Lord, Your answer is clear.
ONE
Purity and holiness are found by living according to Your word.
TWO
Your word is a lamp unto my feet – a light unto my path –
BOTH
Lead me on.
ONE
Direct my footsteps according to your word.
TWO
Let no sin rule over me
ONE
I seek you with all my heart.
TWO
Find me.
ONE
Do not let me stray from your commands.
TWO
Guard me.
ONE
I have hidden your word in my heart
TWO
Tucked safely there to protect me.
ONE
To guide me and rescue me
TWO
that I might not sin against you.
ONE
Teach me, O Lord, to follow your decrees
TWO
And help me to learn deeply – and apply obediently.
ONE
Then and only then can I –
ONE
And will I keep them to the end –
TWO
and draw others to You.
ONE
Give me understanding.
TWO
Clear my mind from the cobwebs of confusion –
ONE
And I will keep your law –
TWO
And obey it
ONE
Keep me far from the path of the wicked –
TWO
And direct me in the path of your commands . . .
ONE
For there I find delight –
TWO
For there, I find You.
ONE
Turn my heart toward your statutes
TWO
and away from myself –
BOTH
Never toward selfish gain.
ONE
Turn my eyes away from idols –
TWO
away from worthless things.
ONE
Preserve my life
TWO
so that I can ultimately be with you, my hope and my future –
TWO
beside you, my Savior and my God –
ONE
And see you
TWO
truly know you
BOTH
in your fullness and majesty.
ONE
Thank you for choosing me.
TWO
May I only represent you with integrity.
Pause
ONE
And Father –
BOTH
I love you.
Lights.
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