Thus saith the Lord to his anointed to Cyrus whose right hand I have holden to subdue nations before him and I will loose the loins of kings to open before him the two leaved gates and the gates shall not be shut I will go before thee and make the crooked places straight I will break in pieces the gates of brass and cut in sunder the bars of iron And I will give thee the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places that thou mayest know that I the Lord which call thee by thy name am the God of Israel

And now Lord behold their threatenings and grant unto thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word By stretching forth thine hand to heal and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus And when they had prayed the place was shaken where they were assembled together and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they spake the word of God with boldness

And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper as he sat at meat there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious and she brake the box and poured it on his head And Jesus said Let her alone why trouble ye her she hath wrought a good work on me For ye have the poor with you always and whensoever ye will ye may do them good but me ye have not always She hath done what she could she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying Verily I say unto you Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her

Now that we know what we have mdash Jesus this great High Priest with ready access to God mdash let rsquo s not let it slip through our fingers We don rsquo t have a priest who is out of touch with our reality He rsquo s been through weakness and testing experienced it all mdash all but the sin So let rsquo s walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give Take the mercy accept the help

For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ

And Joseph said unto his brethren I die and God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel saying God will surely visit you and ye shall carry up my bones from hence

Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain so the Lord shall make bright clouds and give them showers of rain to every one grass in the field

In whom we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace

And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel and might the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes neither reprove after the hearing of his ears

And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and great grace was upon them all