Certainly, Father, we give you thanks and praise this day. We come before your word. We ask that you would enable us to hear you. Father, that we would find that we love your law, that we find you as a hiding place, as a shield, and as our hope. Lord, that the evil might depart from us, and we would keep your Commandments that that you would uphold us with your promise, that we would live…

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Isaiah 12. This advent, we’ve been looking to Isaiah 11 and 12 as Isaiah has pointed us for the coming of the Messiah. This morning, we’re looking at Chapter 12, Verses 1 to 2, primarily verse three, just for bridging us for what will take place next week. As we look to the reading of God’s word, if you please join with me in prayer. Father of all mercies in your word, endless glory shine forth.

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Continuing our Advent series from the Prophet Isaiah 11, as we look to the reading of God’s word, if you’d please join with me in prayer. Heavenly Father, as we meet now in your presence, we ask that you would open our ears to hear your voice, to open our hearts, to love you more and more, to open our souls, to receive your word in its fullness, that your son Jesus, the word made flesh…

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Messianic message of Hope in chapter 11 as we look to the reading of God’s Word, though if you please join with me in prayer. Father of all mercies, let us stand in awe of you this day. Help us by your spirit to put your words into our hearts, write them upon our minds. Let your Word come to us in the fullness of its power. Help us to receive it in love with attentive and reverent and teachable…

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Daniel 9. As you know, the Bible is made up of 66 books, but it is one continuous story. Through thousands of years, a great drama of human redemption is unfolding. And this series has been looking at all of these time periods and connecting all of the dots. And we’re going to close out looking at the exile and return. And if you’re visiting, it should be a stand-along message, but it does build…

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To have glanced down, you’ll see that first word, and you might ask, what’s the therefore? Therefore. It’s always a good question when you see that word in a passage, and ours begins with that word today. Before we read our text this morning, let’s take a quick peek at the back story. Throughout, indeed, our whole series, we have seen both the faithlessness of man contrasted with the faithfulness…

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Heart and a brightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules. Then I’ll establish your royal throne of Israel forever, as I promised David, your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel. But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my Commandments, my statutes that I have set before you…

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The sleepiness this morning. So Holy spirit, we ask that you would quicken our souls, lead us to still waters and the righteous paths of your son through his word. In the name of the Father, Son, Holy spirit. Amen. Passage this morning is 2 Samuel 7: 1-17, the word of the Lord. Now, when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies, the king said to…

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We’ve been tracing the major events of the Bible to show God’s faithfulness to different generations of his people. For some of you, if that’s new to you, some of the accounts and the stories as we’re connecting the dots of a single story, that’s okay. If you’re missing a couple of dots, just know that the other ones you’ll know and connect, and the overall picture should come into focus.

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We pray for the preaching of God’s word. Lord, the grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of the Lord stands forever. Amen. What an incredible scene. Pharaoh this year, the second in command of all of Egypt, has taken time to meet with these eleven sons of Israel. And as our text opens, we see Joseph is so completely overcome with emotion that he dismisses all others from the room.

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