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Isaiah 62:5 As a young man marries a maiden, so will your sons marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.
& Ephesians 5:27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. IN creation’s perfection, God established a perfect, intimate relationship between a man and woman. Genesis 2:22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” 24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. 25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. This language points to our purpose as God’s created beings. As Eve is one flesh, bone of Adam’s bone, she is equal with Adam’s character. God intended marriage, which is two persons in one union, to be a spiritual, functional unity in the image of the Holy Trinity – three persons in one. Adam and Eve were to walk with integrity, serving God and keeping his commandments together. When a marriage fulfills this purpose, society prospers under God’s law, provision, grace and love. This holy, loving relationship is to be the foundation of mankind’s obedience to love God and love one another. Marriage also illustrates God’s purpose for his new creation. In several Bible passages, God defines himself as a husband to his people. Here is one: Isaiah 54:5 For your Maker is your husband – the Lord Almighty is his name – the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth. Do you hear the connection between Maker, husband and Redeemer. A husband must be willing to form a God-loving family to help them know God’s character, so each family member can minister to the world. The husband and father must be willing to sacrifice his own will for the greater purpose. He must protect his family from harm. As a Christian, you are God’s bride. Through Jesus’ atoning death, you are perfectly, beautifully adorned for a glorious relationship with God because he has re-formed you out of himself into a new life. The Holy Spirit has baptized you to adorn you with God’s radiance, shining God’s intimate love into God’s broken world. The Lord God dresses you in his finest robes with his salvation. Now wear your royal wedding clothes on your heart. Be as a faithful bride to love your husband. Also know love’s benefits and purposes. Learn and live the New Testament’s many ways to love God and to love one another in the same ways you love yourself. May you strive with integrity to display to the world the deep, abiding love God has bestowed upon you. Revelation 19:7 Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. Are you ready for Jesus? Prayer: Lord God, I thank you for the beautiful, intimate image of marriage you give to our relationship with you. I pray for Christian marriages to honor and bless you. I pray for each of us as your church to be a faithful Bride of Christ. Amen. Isaiah 62:3 You will be a crown of splendor in the Lord’s hand, a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
& Luke 21:27-28 “At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” KNOW how precious you are to God. Saved in Jesus’ blood, you will be in the LORD’s enriching hands. You will wear your relationship with Jesus Christ as a crown of splendor, a royal diadem. His holiness crowns you to declare to the world, “I belong to the LORD God.” No one will oppose or accuse your new look because you are exhibiting God’s glorious splendor. “Stand up and lift up your heads,” says he Lord Jesus Christ. He is Messiah, who has come to defeat death. He is the One who will come in power to declare his final victory. The world will know your King, his city and his church. When the Son of Man returns, you will eagerly lift up your head to receive and experience his glory. With unblemished faith, your face, thoughts and righteousness will remain lifted up in eternal joy. God has brought you to his holy throne to be God’s own forever. (You) will see his face, and his name will be on (your) foreheads. There will be no more night. (You) will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give (you) light. And (you) will reign for ever and ever. (Revelation 22:4-5) Praise God! Sin’s shame is gone. Jesus’ crown of thorns has formed your crown of glory on your soul. You reign with him as he reigns from heaven’s power seat. Confessing Christ Jesus as your Lord, you are his own. Because of God’s perfect sacrifice, you know your crown is real and eternal. This is God’s amazing grace. Praise the Lord. Prayer: I am yours, Jesus, saved in your gracious blood, cleansed with your power to forgive and resurrect. I stand to display your splendor. Thank you for the crown of life. Amen. Isaiah 62:2 The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory; you will be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord will bestow.
& Luke 24:47 and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. THE Bible often speaks of a name’s importance. In Jacob’s story from Genesis, for example, we read that a new name marked Jacob’s transformed life. “Jacob” meant “deceiver”. That trait certainly marked his character for the first 60 years of his life. But then on Jacob’s return to Canaan, in one of Scripture’s most remarkable stories of new birth, God gave to Jacob a new name: Genesis 32:28 “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome.” The new name was a sign that God was taking the next step in his redemptive promise. Jacob’s new name pointed to a new life under God’s covenant. His new name was a way Jacob could have hope amid the tragedies his family would suffer. And “Israel” would be a name the faithful of this nation remembered throughout its troubled history and know now as they await God’s power to overcome their earthly struggles. In the same way, Christians can speak the name of Jesus with hope, confident are born again, overcoming sin. “Jesus” is the Greek word for the Hebrew “Joshua” or “Hosea”, names that mean “savior”: This is the Father’s name for his Son, so you know the promise: Luke 1:31b and you are to give him the name Jesus. It is important to note that as fathers normally named their sons, God, the Father, named Israel and Jesus to remind all mankind of his salvation promise. “Jerusalem”, too, has a very special meaning. The last half of the word, “Salem”, means peace, and the full name means, “possession of peace”. Although the city has seldom known true peace since David’s reign. The Old Testament history is a tragic story of violence from within and without the city. When we say, “Jerusalem.” we still think of conflict. Walls separate people and religions. Divisive theologies, idol worship and false teaching cause spiritual conflict in Jerusalem and Israel. But then, “Jerusalem” also points to the hope of a new day when God’s people will have struggled and won. Here is God’s eternal prophecy for the city that has found no peace: Isaiah 62:4 No longer will they call you Deserted or name your land Desolate. But you will be called Hephzibah (“My delight is in her.”) and your land Beulah (Married one); for the Lord will take delight in you, and your land will be married. God will redeem the name of Jerusalem with the power of the name of Jesus, brought forth through the nation Israel. As forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, one day the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, (will come) down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. (Revelation 21:2-3) Through Jacob, Isaiah, Jesus and John, God promises the very character of Jerusalem and of the world will completely reflect God’s righteousness. What’s your name? As you are named “Christian” be aware of who you are. “Christian” says, “I am of Christ.” Be alert to know you are intimately related to Jesus, by whose name the Father has given you a new life. May your life display who he is. Prayer: Thank you, God Almighty for giving me a new name in your salvation. I pray I honor who I am in you. Amen. Isaiah 62:1 For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.
& Luke 19:39-40 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!” 40 “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” GOD the Father speaks in Isaiah with an unrelenting purpose. For Zion’s wellbeing, for Jerusalem’s sake, for the salvation of his chosen people, God will speak his righteous truth to them and to the world. No force will stop the Father calling his people home to his kingdom. The Father is so determined to his purpose, he even promises and then sends his Son into the enemy’s stronghold. There will be no silent, holy night until the King of Kings reigns. Any attempts to silence God will be thwarted “as the stones will cry out.”. Indeed, “Let heaven and nature sing” (from Joy to the World) because the earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; to declare God’s salvation has come to earth. (Psalms 24:1) God certainly continues to be an unrelenting voice to his world. Throughout the Old Testament, into the New and now to today’s world, a Satan-influenced world has loudly attempted to silence heaven’s Good Word. “Scholars” and “experts” try to turn our faith into dust as they discredit the Bible. Godless leaders of nations and other religions silence, imprison, torture and kill God’s people who speak his truth. Even many who say they are Christians attempt to silence God’s truth. They say they don’t want to tell people what to think and do. Yet, God’s voices continue to cry out, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” (Acts 2:38) How’s your voice? Does the gracious, unrelenting God cause you to cry out with love and justice? Are you “singing” the songs of his salvation and peace above a discordant world? Some people say, “I have a quiet faith.” But we ask, “Where does God instruct us to be quiet about him?” Prayer: Lord God, thank you the constant sounds of your salvation. I pray your church will “Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day.” (Psalm 96:2) Amen. Isaiah 61:11 For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.
& Luke 8:15 But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop. WE long to return to the perfect Garden into God’s presence. Sin has cast us out: Genesis 3:23 So the Lord God banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which they had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life. Think of that. Sin’s penalty is death, away from the tree of life. The Garden was life, the place of God’s holy presence, and mankind was cast out. Unholy man could no longer live in unity and peace with the righteous God. Thankfully, though, our LORD God graciously began to turn this defeat into his eternal victory over sin. We begin to see God’s victory strategy in his New Garden plan to Abraham: Genesis 17:8 “The whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.” God chose to form a people who would dwell with him spiritually in a physical land he prepared for them. He then commands Israel to this land in Exodus. They arrive in Joshua. But as history tells us, Israel rejected – just as Adam and Eve – the Lord’s presence, purpose and commands. They rejected God’s blessings of a fruitful land to abundantly provide for them. Still God persisted to fulfill his Eden promise. He continued to proclaim through Isaiah and others the day of renewal. As natural and powerful as the seed coming from the ground, the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations. Jesus then came to describe the Kingdom of God with a number of Garden illustrations. The Word of God planted in faithful hearts would produce life. Then Jesus gave life to his illustration through this profound parable: John 12:24 “I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels—a plentiful harvest of new lives.” As a seed dying in the ground to burst forth with life, the Christ came out of the ground into the Resurrection Garden! From that single day, the first faithful disciples began to follow God with a noble and good heart. In the rich soil of their love for Jesus, they would hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop. The planting, growing and harvesting continue to this day. Good Gardeners plant then tend the Holy Spirit’s harvest of a faithful church to know and obey God’s commands. By his grace, God will one day fulfill his purpose to welcome his own into his eternal Garden. Revelation 22:1 Then the angel showed me a river with the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 It flowed down the center of the main street. On each side of the river grew a tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, with a fresh crop each month. The leaves were used for medicine to heal the nations. 3 No longer will there be a curse upon anything. For the throne of God and of the Lamb will be there, and his servants will worship him. 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. The perfect Garden of righteousness will be your eternal home. You have just read a summary of God’s Love Story to declare those in Christ will one day return to the Tree of Life in the eternal Garden. How is your gardening? Are you planting seeds, so the Spirit will water and grow the church? Do you expect a harvest? Are you tending to it? Prayer: Lord, look with compassion on all our ruins; make our hearts like Eden, like the garden of the Lord. May joy and gladness, thanksgiving and the sound of singing be found in your church. Amen (from Isaiah 51:3) Isaiah 61:10 I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
& Luke 24:49 “I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.” ADVENT is the time of remembering, knowing and anticipating Jesus’ presence in the world. His word pronounces his call to believe: Revelation 21:5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” In response to God’s promise of his truth, we continue to see how the some of the promises from Isaiah are fulfilled in Jesus’ first coming. And other promises in Isaiah are restated in the New Testament to yet be fulfilled. What do you wear to worship? It used to be the phrase “Sunday best” in America meant you were wearing your best clothes. We’ve seen that across the world, too, as people dress with their best clothes to attend church. But it seems “Sunday best” in the U.S. has become “Sunday casual”. Perhaps that is one symptom of the church in the U.S. generally becoming more casual about Jesus. True, our outer dress is of no consequence to our salvation and fruitful living. After all, it’s about being clothed in power from on high, isn’t it? But would it be more appropriate for our clothes to reflect the garments God bestows upon our hearts? How gracious is your God to dress you in new clothes! He removes your sin-filthy rags. See this gracious and redemptive passage from Zechariah 3:4 The angel said to those who were standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes.” Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put rich garments on you.” 5 Then I said, “Put a clean turban on his head.” So, they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while the angel of the Lord stood by. The Lord had called Judah from exile. It was time to begin anew! He wanted to know they could remove their sin-stained “clothes” and be dressed in God’s salvation. God has done the same for your soul. He has sacrificed his Son to call you from sin’s exile to be born into new life. The Spirit of God has clothed you with garments of salvation and a robe of righteousness. Saved in Jesus, you are as a bridegroom, lavishly dressed. Head to foot God’s holiness marks you as his. The jewels of God’s Spirit brighten your countenance. You are as a bride in a husband’s loving, devoted eyes. Yes, in Christ, you are dressed in the best. The first apostles certainly knew this. Refined, made new in their hearts, they quickly showed the world they were clothed with power from on high. Wearing salvation on their lips and healing in their hands, the apostles began to clothe the world with Jesus’ life-giving blood. Garments of praise and robes of righteousness became the fashion to transform a pagan world. Dear Christian, do you know what you are wearing? Are you aware God has so lavishly dressed you? What would happen if “Sunday best” became your heart’s “Daily Best”? How would your life change if you dressed in God’s gracious love and righteousness each day? Would people see your garments of praise in the way you live? Would they know God covers you with his power? Would you know it? And maybe you could wear some really nice clothes to church periodically, so you would demonstrate the Lord has clothed your heart. Prayer: LORD God, I thank you for the new clothes of my salvation. Keep my heart and mind diligent to dress in you each day, so the world will see your garment of praise covers my life. May I always be particular about the way I dress my heart for you. Amen. Isaiah 61:2b-3 and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, 3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion, to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.
& Luke 3:16-18 John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one more powerful than I will come, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. 17 His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” 18 And with many other words John exhorted the people and preached the good news to them. WE remember Advent is a season to both celebrate the Lord Jesus come to earth and rejoice in the promise of Christ’s second coming. In our previous lesson we included the first part of Isaiah 61:2. Now let us see the entire verse: Isaiah 61:2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn. But see that Luke 4:19 records Jesus stopped his reading of the scripture with “the Lord’s favor”. As he announced his ministry’s purpose, he did not read, “he day of vengeance of our God.” This is because Jesus first came to seek and save what was lost (Luke 19:10b). And he says in John 12:47 “I will not judge those who hear me but don't obey me, for I have come to save the world and not to judge it.” Through Jesus, the Son, God’s favor, the gospel of salvation, has been declared. Today the ministry of God’s Word is God’s favor to redeem the lost and prepare his own for the final judgment. Many believe. And many do not. One day Jesus’ winnowing fork will clear the chaff from the seed. Jesus will complete Isaiah’s prophecy, and the Son of Man will judge the unbelievers into Hell and believers into the new Jerusalem – the new heaven and earth. Beauty will crown their heads. Aromatic, healing oils will anoint their bodies. Praise will cover their souls. Joy breaks forth in their worship. Despair is done. Faith firmly marks God’s church when we have been judged into his righteous truth. The Lord has planted his church to be oaks of righteousness to display his splendor. We thank God for the Son’s first coming. He births our sinful souls into a new life now and forever. We thank God for the Son’s second coming that will welcome home all who believe. Prayer: Lord God, your favor is displayed in your very personal plan to save your own throughout the world. We anticipate with joy you are coming to judge the world, so we may live eternally with you. Amen. Isaiah 61:1-2a The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.
& Luke 4:18-20 (Jesus said) “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.” 20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him, 21 and he began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” HERE is the Holy Trinity. The “Spirit” (the Holy Spirit) of the LORD (the Father) is upon “me” ( the Son). This is the Word made flesh (John 1) to fulfill his prophetic as he read to the synagogue congregation in Nazareth. Jesus, the Living Word, teaches God fulfills his prophecies. In the triune God’s favor, which is his grace, love, mercy and forgiveness, the Son comes in the Father’s will anointed with the Spirit’s power to minister God’s salvation from sin’s bondage. Isaiah spoke of God’s coming favor. God’s favor became flesh – a living, teaching, righteous man. Jesus was born. Jesus lived. Jesus died. Jesus rose. Jesus ascended. Jesus sent the Spirit. God’s favor is the gospel. This is why it is now possible for such “born-again” teachings as Paul wrote: Ephesians 2:1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions – it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus. Jesus is God’s Favor. Through your repentance of sins and confession of Christ, you become God’s favored inheritance. How glorious is the Lord’s Favor. Praise the Lord. Prayer: We gratefully receive your Favor, Lord. His name is Jesus. We confess he has fulfilled Scripture’s salvation promise. Amen. Arise, Shine
Isaiah 60:1-3 “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. 2 See, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you. 3 Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.” & Matthew 2:1-2, 9-10 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.”… 9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. 10 When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. WE shift briefly from Luke to see how Matthew also affirms Isaiah’s Messiah prophecies. The prophetic light is real, isn’t it? The star viewed in the eastern regions of the Middle East pointed to a light that had come over Judea. Why was this special? After all, one could say there are many bright “stars” at different times in the heavens. However, isn’t it possible to understand God created a special light to literally fulfill Isaiah’s words? After all, God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. (Genesis 1:3). Surely, with a word he could have placed a bright light in the Judean sky to urge the world to the King. Yes, Glory be to God. The Bethlehem Star is a physical revelation of God’s plan to save the world. One day Jesus would teach us to be a light: Matthew 5:14 "You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.” Then he would personify the light as he declared, “I am the light of the world.” (John 8:12). The prophets of God, the star in the sky and the Lord on the earth proclaimed it is time for mankind to rise, to stand physically and spiritually to seek the Lord’s glory that rises upon you from the ascended Christ. In response, people of all nations are coming to see the Christ, the supernatural Light, who overcomes and dismisses sin’s darkness. Throughout the globe and across generations, God declares his salvation light is shining: Ephesians 5:8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth). This is God’s gracious, loving blessing of salvation come to mankind. With joy the Magi discovered and worshiped the Christ; I pray you are as they. See, pursue and worship the Light. Prayer: Holy God, you set before us the Light of the World. May we daily worship him with joy and thanksgiving. Amen. Isaiah 52:7-9 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” 8 Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices; together they shout for joy. When the Lord returns to Zion, they will see it with their own eyes. 9 Burst into songs of joy together, you ruins of Jerusalem, for the Lord has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.
& Luke 2:10-11, 15, 20 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord…15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”…20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. DO you see the action here? Messengers announce the news. Watchmen tell the good news. Angels proclaim. Shepherds go. An experienced watchman knew good news was coming when the messenger’s feet ran quickly and lightly from the battle to eagerly proclaim victory. Even as the runner was far off, the watchman would gladly announce these tidings of joy arriving on the feet of those who brought the good news of victory. A natural outpouring of song and praise came from the citizens as they celebrated salvation from an enemy. On that glorious night in Bethlehem’s pastures, the shepherds became God’s watchmen and messengers. Eagerly, in joy and anticipation, wonder and awe, the working men received the good news, and shepherds’ feet took them to see the King. Then with victory in their steps and a song on their tongues they proclaimed to the world all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. How beautiful it would be in our Christian lives to be such witnesses of God’s victorious news, then to be his messengers who joyfully run to announce the victory proclamation: “A Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord!” Indeed, how beautiful it is to truly know the good news, to joyfully “run” with a song on you heart and soul to tell the good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Be the King’s faithful messengers to your family and your community. Your life will glorify and praise God for all the things (you) had heard and seen. Do you glorify God? You do if you talk of God’s salvation, telling people he has given you victory in your battle against sin. Glorify God with your love, mercy, grace and peace toward others. The good news is much too good to keep to yourself. Prayer: Lord God, urge my feet onward, loosen my tongue upward to tell the good news of great joy that is for all the people. Amen. |
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