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Reach Up!

January 9, 2022 by Brandon Friebe
Series:Reach
Passages:Exodus 17:10-13, 2 Chronicles 6:12-13, Romans 12:1, Psalm 88:9, Ezra 9:5, Nehemiah 8:6, Psalm 28:1-2, Psalm 143:6, Lamentations 2:19, Psalm 63:4, Psalm 141:2, Psalm 134:2

Exodus 17:10–13

10 So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13 And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword.

2 Chronicles 6:12–13

12 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands. 13 Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court, and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven,

Romans 12:1

12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Psalm 88:9

    my eye grows dim through sorrow.
  Every day I call upon you, O LORD;
    I spread out my hands to you.

Ezra 9:5

And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God,

Nehemiah 8:6

And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and all the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

Psalm 28:1–2

Of David.

28:1   To you, O LORD, I call;
    my rock, be not deaf to me,
  lest, if you be silent to me,
    I become like those who go down to the pit.
  Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy,
    when I cry to you for help,
  when I lift up my hands
    toward your most holy sanctuary.

Psalm 143:6

  I stretch out my hands to you;
    my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah

Lamentations 2:19

19   “Arise, cry out in the night,
    at the beginning of the night watches!
  Pour out your heart like water
    before the presence of the Lord!
  Lift your hands to him
    for the lives of your children,
  who faint for hunger
    at the head of every street.”

Psalm 63:4

  So I will bless you as long as I live;
    in your name I will lift up my hands.

Psalm 141:2

  Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,
    and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!

Psalm 134:2

  Lift up your hands to the holy place
    and bless the LORD!