Mother Powers does not hand out prayers as a substitute for
calling her, and she would tell you herself that reading a psalm off a screen is not the same as
having somebody pray it over you by name. But people ask, so here they are.
Psalm 23
For fear, and for people who cannot sleep
The Lord is my shepherd. Mother says this one with more callers than any other, and often that is the whole of the reading. When a person is frightened they do not need instruction, they need company, and this psalm is company.
Psalm 27
For enemies, and for courage
Whom shall I fear. She reads this over people who are being worked against, or who simply have somebody at a job or in a family making their life hard.
Psalm 91
For protection of a household
The one she sets over a home. When Mother blesses a house she calls each person in it by name and reads the ninety-first over the address.
Psalm 121
For travel, and for children who are away
I will lift up mine eyes. For a son in the service, a daughter who moved off, anybody on a road.
The Lord's Prayer
Where anything begins
Every call opens here whether the caller asks for it or not. Mother has never once been told to stop.
Psalm 37
For a person eaten up with envy of somebody else
Fret not thyself. She uses this one where the trouble is not really an enemy at all, but bitterness — and she is direct about the difference.