We come to you today at this special time. We pause and we dive in for these next

a couple of Sundays leading up to Christmas to celebrate to prepare to get

ready to take advantage actually the age in which we live in all of us

can discern that there's somewhat of a heaviness people are a little bit skeptical

people a little bit fearful regarding the economy

and all that kind of stuff and justifiably so.

Well that's where we get to come in.

We the church.

We're the voice., you've given us your word

and you've asked us to proclaim your truth.

So Father God, we pray that the message of Christmas

and the message of Christmas and the purpose of Christmas and the proclamation of Christmas

that we would all be so filled with your Holy Spirit that we would be on mission, on target,

as it were.

Literally, spending the next two to three weeks

being so used by you that the greatest thing of all

could be that a life, a home, a family,

could receive the greatest gift of all,

and we hold that gift, we've got that gift,

residing in us, the treasure of the eternal gospel.

So Father, we pray now that you would school us in your truth,

empower us by your spirit, and send us out to the ends of the earth in this world, Lord God,

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