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01 December 2008
GOD'S PROMISE TO YOUFor the promise is to you and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call. (Act 2:39)
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed;
Jehovah has appeared to me from afar, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness I have drawn you.
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
As the Father has loved Me, so I have loved you; continue in My love.
In this the love of God was revealed in us, because God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him.
If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and rich in mercy.
And they shall no more teach each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah;
And He spoke this parable to them, saying,
All the Prophets give witness to Him, that through His name whoever believes in Him shall receive remission of sins.
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace;
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
But the salvation of the righteous is from Jehovah; He is their strength in the time of trouble.
And one shall say in that day, Lo, this is our God. We have waited for Him, and He will save us.
And she shall bear a son, and you shall call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins.
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved, and your household.
For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
And also I will pour out My Spirit on the slaves and on the slave women in those days.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?
And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, so that He may be with you forever, the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see Him nor know Him.
Then Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ to remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
But if the Spirit of the One who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the One who raised up Christ from the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive by His Spirit who dwells in you.
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall rise on the earth at the last;
And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes on Him should have everlasting life.
And I give to them eternal life, and they shall never ever perish, and not anyone shall pluck them out of My hand.
Behold, I speak a mystery to you; we shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed;
In a moment, in a glance of an eye, at the last trumpet.
Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. And so we shall ever be with the Lord.
Jehovah will give strength to His people; Jehovah will bless His people with peace.
You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You; because he trusts in You.
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you.
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
For He is our peace, He making us both one, and He has broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
And may the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always in every way.
You will make Me know the way of life; in Your presence is fullness of joys.
Satisfy us early with Your mercy, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love, even as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
And therefore you now have sorrow.
Whom having not seen, you love; in whom not yet seeing, but believing in Him you exult with unspeakable joy, and having been glorified:
I will run the way of Your Commandments, when You shall enlarge my heart.
Who carries out judgment for the mistreated; who gives food to the hungry.
Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Whoever practices sin is the slave of sin.
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin.
For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under Law, but under grace.
For when you were the slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
And the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Even from Jesus Christ the faithful Witness, the First-born from the dead and the Ruler of the kings of the earth.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flowering;
But we all, with our face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord Spirit.
So that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.
Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
According as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who has called us to glory and virtue, through which He has given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Jehovah, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will prepare their heart, You will cause Your ear to hear:
For I know the purposes which I am purposing for you, says Jehovah; purposes of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, who has loved us and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
Only be strong and very courageous so that you may be careful to do according to all the Law which My servant Moses commanded you.
Roll your works upon Jehovah, and your thoughts shall be established.
However, it shall not be so among you. But whoever desires to be great among you, let him be your servant.
Truly, truly, I say to you, He who believes on Me, the works that I do he shall do also, and greater works than these he shall do, because I go to My Father.
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God;
Whom have I in Heaven? And besides You I desire none on earth.
He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases strength.
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us;
But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and keep you from evil.
But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, restore, establish, strengthen, settle you.
Jehovah shall bless you out of Zion; and you shall see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
And I will make them, and the places around My hill, a blessing; and I will bring down the shower in its season.
And out of His fullness we all have received, and grace for grace.
The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy.
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ;
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Jehovah of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I am in their midst.
Teaching them to observe all things, whatever I commanded you.
All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will in no way cast out.
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
To You who hears prayer, all flesh comes.
By awesome things in righteousness You will answer us, O God of our salvation; who are the hope of all the ends of the earth and the sea, of those far away.
Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.
And all things, whatever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears open to their prayers.
And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Who also said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into the heaven?
For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God.
Behold, He comes with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, and those who pierced Him will see Him, and all the kindreds of the earth will wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.
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