Week 4: To begin each week of Advent, we have compiled opportunities for Sabbath. We pray your Sabbath experiences throughout the Advent season will be a sanctuary for you - to rest and recover from all the busyness that can come with this season.

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SCRIPTURE:

“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

Ephesians 3:17b-19

Christian Dunn | National Youth Director

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SCRIPTURE:

A prayer of the Apostle Paul for his friends in Ephesus “…may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.”

Ephesians 3:18-19

Becky Olmstead | National Vineyard Kids Leader

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SCRIPTURE: Luke 1:39-56

Center yourself by taking a deep breath and relaxing your body as best you can. Allow your shoulders to lower away from your ears. Let your arms rest in your lap and let your feet be fully supported by the floor. Feel the weight of your body held by the chair. Spend this time in silence. Open yourself up to God’s voice.

SCRIPTURE: “Mary responded, “Oh, how my soul praises the Lord. How my spirit rejoices in God my Savior! For he took notice of his lowly servant girl, and from now on all generations will call me blessed. For the Mighty One is holy, and he has done great things for me. He shows mercy from generation to generation to all who fear him. His mighty arm has done tremendous things! He has scattered the proud and haughty ones. He has brought down princes from their thrones and exalted the humble. He has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away with empty hands. He has helped his servant Israel and remembered to be merciful. For he made this promise to our ancestors, to Abraham and his children forever.”

Luke 1:46-55

By Christina Lowery

Associate National Director of Church Health & Development

SCRIPTURE: “Arise, Lord, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might… For the Lord has chosen Zion, he has desired it for his dwelling, saying, ’This is my resting place forever and ever; here I will sit enthroned, for I have desired it. I will bless her with abundant provisions; her poor I will satisfy with food. I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her faithful people will ever sing for joy.’”

Psalm 132:8,13-1

By: Phil Chorlian | Eastern Regional Leader

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The Lord inhabits our worship. Enter this reflection by settling for a moment and inviting God’s presence. As we continue with the theme of Joy, the song this week is a medley of another traditional hymn and a Vineyard Worship song: Angels We Have Heard On High / Glory to God. These timeless and timely lyrics call us to celebrate the joy brought into the world through the birth of Jesus. Read through the lyrics slowly and notice what messages are highlighted to you. Use the link to listen to the song and ask the Holy Spirit to lead you into joyful worship with Him.

Angels We Have Heard On High / Glory To God

by Chadwick (PD), Butler, Brown

Week 3: To begin each week of Advent, we have compiled opportunities for Sabbath. We pray your Sabbath experiences throughout the Advent season will be a sanctuary for you - to rest and recover from all the busyness that can come with this season.

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By Josh Williams

Associate National Director Of Evangelism & Justice

SCRIPTURE: “There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.”

Proverbs: 23:18

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SCRIPTURE: “In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts. Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith. You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.” Isaiah 26:1-4