...is laid upon you.
Verse for the week: “The law was given through
Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” John 1.17
Prayer for the week: Blessed Lord, you speak to us through the Holy
Scriptures. Keep your promise and pour out your Holy Spirit that as we hear,
read, respect, learn and suffer your Word, His enduring benefits of faith and
comfort may grasp and hold us in true life now and in eternity with you;
through the same Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord. Amen.
Bible reading for the day: Genesis 12.1-9 (The
same Lord God who creates the universe out of nothing just by saying so,
chooses a 75-year-old man and his barren wife as his instruments to bless all
the families of the earth with his Word.)
Now the Lord said to
Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to
the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of
you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you
will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless
you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families
of the earth shall be blessed.”
4 So Abram went, as
the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five
years old when he departed from Haran. 5 And
Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions
that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and
they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of
Canaan, 6 Abram passed through the land to the
place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the
Canaanites were in the land. 7 Then
the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will
give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared
to him. 8 From there he moved to the hill country
on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai
on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon
the name of the Lord. 9 And Abram journeyed
on, still going toward the Negeb.
Prayer (based on the T.R.I.P. method): Gracious and almighty Father, your
sovereign call is our beginning and our end. Thank you for laying your call
upon Abram and me and rescuing us from ourselves. You will now to use me and
your whole church to bless all the families of the earth with your speech. Do
it Lord. Bring us to your altar, not the altar of ourselves. Instill in us the
calling upon your name and remove from us all our babble. I ask this in
Christ’s name, amen.
Hymn: follow this link to a beloved, classic hymn
that gives further voice to today’s conversation with the Lord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVK47RThdcg&ab_channel=PianoSeries
“I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord…”
What does this mean?
I believe that Jesus Christ – true God, begotten of the Father from
eternity, and also true man, born of the Virgin Mary — is my Lord. He has
redeemed me, a lost and condemned creature, and has freed me from sin, death,
and the power of the devil, not with silver and gold, but with his holy and
precious blood and his innocent suffering and death. He has done all this in
order that I might be his own, live under him in his kingdom, and serve him in
everlasting righteousness, innocence, and blessedness, even as he is risen from
the dead and lives and reigns for all eternity. This is most certainly true!
Benediction: The Lord God remembers you according to
his favor. Amen.
*This is now
our congregation’s 99th year in the Word. In 2025, we are reading
from Genesis to Revelation, with a few interludes along the way.
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