After Pentecost | Saturday 06 Jun
+ In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen
Opening prayer:
O God,
the strength of all who put their trust in you:
Mercifully accept our prayers, and because,
through the weakness of our mortal nature,
we can do no good thing without you,
grant us the help of your grace to keep your commandments,
that we may please you in will and deed;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
“Do you believe I can make you see?”
(Matthew 9:28)
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Psalms: Psalm 33 – “Praises” | Tommy Walker Ministries
33:1 Let the godly sing for joy to the Lord;
it is fitting for the pure to praise him.
+ Praise the Lord with melodies on the lyre;
make music for him on the ten-stringed harp.
+ Sing a new song of praise to him;
play skillfully on the harp, and sing with joy.
+ For the word of the Lord holds true,
and we can trust everything he does.
+ He loves whatever is just and good;
the unfailing love of the Lord fills the earth.
33:6 The Lord merely spoke,
and the heavens were created.
He breathed the word,
and all the stars were born.
+ He assigned the sea its boundaries
and locked the oceans in vast reservoirs.
+ Let the whole world fear the Lord,
and let everyone stand in awe of him.
+ For when he spoke, the world began!
It appeared at his command.
33:10 The Lord frustrates the plans of the nations
and thwarts all their schemes.
+ But the Lord’s plans stand firm forever;
his intentions can never be shaken.
33:12 What joy for the nation whose God is the Lord,
whose people he has chosen as his inheritance.
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OT Reading: Genesis 15:1-20 (NLT)
The Lord’s Covenant Promise to Abram
15:1 Some time later, the Lord spoke to Abram in a vision and said to him, “Do not be afraid, Abram, for I will protect you, and your reward will be great.”
+ But Abram replied, “O Sovereign Lord, what good are all your blessings when I don’t even have a son? Since you’ve given me no children, Eliezer of Damascus, a servant in my household, will inherit all my wealth. You have given me no descendants of my own, so one of my servants will be my heir.”
+ Then the Lord said to him, “No, your servant will not be your heir, for you will have a son of your own who will be your heir.” Then the Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!”
15:6 And Abram believed the Lord, and the Lord counted him as righteous because of his faith.
+ Then the Lord told him, “I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as your possession.”
+ But Abram replied, “O Sovereign Lord, how can I be sure that I will actually possess it?”
+ The Lord told him, “Bring me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” So Abram presented all these to him and killed them. Then he cut each animal down the middle and laid the halves side by side; he did not, however, cut the birds in half. Some vultures swooped down to eat the carcasses, but Abram chased them away.
+ As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a terrifying darkness came down over him. Then the Lord said to Abram, “You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years. But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end they will come away with great wealth. (As for you, you will die in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.) After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction.”
15:17 After the sun went down and darkness fell, Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch pass between the halves of the carcasses. So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, “I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River— the land now occupied by the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites….
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O God of Abraham | Don Moen
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NT Reading: Matthew 9:27-34 (NLT)
Jesus Heals the Blind
9:27 After Jesus left the girl’s home, two blind men followed along behind him, shouting, “Son of David, have mercy on us!”
+ They went right into the house where he was staying, and Jesus asked them, “Do you believe I can make you see?”
“Yes, Lord,” they told him, “we do.”
+ Then he touched their eyes and said, “Because of your faith, it will happen.” Then their eyes were opened, and they could see! Jesus sternly warned them, “Don’t tell anyone about this.” But instead, they went out and spread his fame all over the region.
9:32 When they left, a demon-possessed man who couldn’t speak was brought to Jesus. So Jesus cast out the demon, and then the man began to speak. The crowds were amazed. “Nothing like this has ever happened in Israel!” they exclaimed.
+ But the Pharisees said, “He can cast out demons because he is empowered by the prince of demons.”
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Jesus Is My Healer | feat. Jessie Harris | Gateway Worship
1. Oh that rugged cross
The selfless pain He bore
He breathed his final breath
That I would be restored
By His body that was broken
Precious blood freely shed
The spotless lamb of heaven
Has forever conquered death
CHORUS
Jesus is my healer
He’s everything I need
He alone has triumphed over sickness and disease
Fear where is your power
The cross is your defeat
Jesus is my healer
He has won the victory
2. Oh how great a love
I’m held by perfect peace
He walks with me through valleys
Understands my suffering
Every joy and every sorrow
Every triumph, every loss
I know everything is covered
By the shadow of the cross
BRIDGE
Everything bows at His name
Everything bows at His name
Sickness, darkness, chains
Break at the name of Jesus
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Almighty and immortal God, giver of life and health: We implore your mercy for your servants who are sick, that by your blessing upon them and upon those who minister to them with your healing gifts, they may be restored to health of body and mind, according to your gracious will, and may give thanks to you in your holy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
O Lord our God, accept the fervent prayers of your people; in the multitude of your mercies, look with compassion upon us and all who turn to you for help; for you are gracious, O lover of souls, and to you we give glory, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.
O God, our heavenly Father: Send forth laborers into your harvest; defend them in all dangers and temptations; and hasten the time when the fullness of the Gentiles shall be gathered in, and faithful Israel shall be saved; through your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Closing: FaithandWorship.com | John Birch
The Lord bless us, and preserve us from all evil,
and keep us in eternal life.
+ In the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
“Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
2:17 These people are as useless as dried-up springs or as mist blown away by the wind. They are doomed to blackest darkness. They brag about themselves with empty, foolish boasting. With an appeal to twisted sexual desires, they lure back into sin those who have barely escaped from a lifestyle of deception. They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves of sin and corruption. For you are a slave to whatever controls you. And when people escape from the wickedness of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then get tangled up and enslaved by sin again, they are worse off than before. It would be better if they had never known the way to righteousness than to know it and then reject the command they were given to live a holy life. They prove the truth of this proverb: “A dog returns to its vomit.” And another says, “A washed pig returns to the mud.”
12:7 A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other. To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice; to another the same Spirit gives a message of special knowledge. The same Spirit gives great faith to another, and to someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing. He gives one person the power to perform miracles, and another the ability to prophesy. He gives someone else the ability to discern whether a message is from the Spirit of God or from another spirit. Still another person is given the ability to speak in unknown languages, while another is given the ability to interpret what is being said. It is the one and only Spirit who distributes all these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have.
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