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- Advent Devotionals: Day 18 “I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed.” - Genesis 26:4
- Advent Devotionals: Day 16 “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.” – Daniel 2:44 Growing up as kids, we would prepare […]
- Advent Devotionals: Day 15 “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel.” - Isaiah 7:14
- Advent Devotionals: Day 9 “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever.” - Isaiah 9:6-7
- Advent Devotionals: Day 8 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.” (ESV ) - Zechariah 12:10
- Advent Devotionals: Day 5 “He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished. He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.” - Isaiah 53:7-9
- Advent Devotionals: Day 4 “Dogs surround me, a pack of villains encircles me; they pierce my hands and my feet. All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me. They divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.” - Psalm 22:16-18
- Advent Devotionals: Day 3 “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshipped him. His dominion […]
- Advent Devotionals: Day 2 “The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.” -Psalm 110:4 As you pull out your Christmas crèche and nativity sets, do you ever wonder why there is not a figurine for Melchizedek? I am assuming your answer is “no” or “who is Melchizedek?” […]
- Advent Devotionals: Day 24 “But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.” - Isaiah 9:1-2
- Advent Devotionals: Day 23 “Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, And He will divide the booty with the strong’ Because He poured out Himself to death, And was numbered with the transgressors; Yet He Himself bore the sin of many, And interceded for the transgressors.” - Isaiah 53:12
- Advent Devotionals: Day 14 “You said, ‘I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant, I will establish your line forever and make your throne firm throughout all generations.’" - Psalm 89:3-4
- Advent Devotionals: Day 13 “I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.” - Isaiah 50:6
- Advent Devotionals: Day 12 “Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.” - Zechariah 9:9
