An audio lesson for today's Hopewell -Home to help you lead your own family in worship from Genesis 26-26-33. Abimelech seems to have everything and everyone, but it is Isaac who has everything, because Yahweh is with him, and he is the blessed of Yahweh. This is supremely true in Christ, in Whom alone is all true blessedness-

In Luke 6-1-5, rather than defend the disciples' actions as lawful -which they were-, Jesus draws attention instead to the reason for the disciples' eating the grain- they were with Him. He who is Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath- Sabbath is a day consecrated to Jesus-

Eph 2-19-22 teaches us that in Christ, God makes us as close as fellow citizens in a strange land, closer as members of the same family, closest as a building that is fit together and grown together in Christ-a dwelling place for God Himself

Being controlled by earthly desires disappoints us, debases us, and defiles us. But prayer as true worship satisfies us, strengthens us, and sanctifies us.

In 1Sam 9-1-24, the Lord tells Samuel in his ears and us in ours that even in the mundane moments, He is working His almighty redemption in Christ for those upon whom He has resolved to have surprising mercy.

James 1-5-8 teaches us to pray for that heart of wisdom that numbers our days enables us to count trials joy, and to rejoice in exaltation when poor and humiliation when rich... a desire in which we should be steady and unwavering.

Jesus isn't just our Peacemaker. He Himself is our peace. In Him is the nearest nearness to God, which absolutely demands that we be -near- one another as well.

God's faithfulness in every detail of each of His people's lives is the same great faithfulness that is on display in the whole of His work of redemption in Jesus Christ.

We are equipped to walk in good works by remembering that we are new creatures in Christ, that we have been brought into the common wealth of God's people, that God has bound us to Himself by covenant, and that all this has been done for us by union with Christ.

We must look to God to provide for us all that is necessary materially and spiritually, in His unlimited power and unmerited favor, which He offers in Christ.