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Fifth Day of Christmas

Posted on December 29, 2018 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Isaiah 49:1-13 (NKJV)   49:1 “Listen, O coastlands, to Me, and take heed, you peoples from afar! The LORD has called Me from the womb; From the matrix of My mother He has made mention of My name. 2 And He has made My mouth like a sharp sword; In the shadow of His…

Fourth Day of Christmas

Posted on December 28, 2018 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Isaiah 46:3-13 (NKJV)   3 “Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, Who have been upheld by Me from birth, Who have been carried from the womb: 4 Even to your old age, I am He, And even to gray hairs I will carry you!…

Third Day of Christmas

Posted on December 27, 2018 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Isaiah 32:1-8 (NKJV)   32:1 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule with justice. 2 A man will be as a hiding place from the wind, and a cover from the tempest, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary…

Second Day of Christmas

Posted on December 26, 2018 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Malachi 4:1-6 (NKJV)   4:1 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, and all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” says the LORD of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But to you…

Feast of the Nativity of our Lord

Posted on December 25, 2018 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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  Scripture: Malachi 3:1-7 (NKJV)   3:1 “Behold, I send My messenger, and he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He is coming,” says the LORD of hosts.   2 “But who…

Monday after Rorate coeli, The Fourth Sunday in Advent

Posted on December 24, 2018 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Isaiah 40:1-11 (NKJV)   40:1 “Comfort, yes, comfort My people!” Says your God. 2 “Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned; For she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.”   3 The voice of one crying in…

Saturday after Gaudete, The Third Sunday in Advent

Posted on December 22, 2018 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Isaiah 52:1-12 (NKJV)   52:1 Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer come to you. 2 Shake yourself from the dust, arise; Sit down, O Jerusalem! Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck,…

Friday after Gaudete, The Third Sunday in Advent

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Isaiah 51:1-16 (NKJV)   51:1 “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you were dug. 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; For I called…

Thursday after Gaudete, The Third Sunday in Advent

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Isaiah 26:1-21 (NKJV)   26:1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:   “We have a strong city; God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks. 2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in. 3 You will keep him in perfect…

Wednesday after Gaudete, The Third Sunday in Advent

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Isaiah 25:6-10 (NKJV)   25:6 And in this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all people a feast of choice pieces, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of well-refined wines on the lees. 7 And He will destroy on this mountain the surface of the…