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Father, I pray that in this room right now,

whether peace is flowing like a river

or whether sea billows are breaking over the heart that you would manifest yourself in such power and such nearness and such tenderness and such majesty that every need in this

room would be touched stunningly with transforming encouraging life-giving Christ-exalting power tonight.

And I pray that as I undertake to put the picture of the movement from the old to the

New Testament before us and then take us into Second Thessalonians, one.

That you would anoint my lips and these ears so that the transaction is magnifying to Jesus Christ and a strengthening to our face and a purifying upon our churches

and an advancement of your mission in this world.

And I ask this in Jesus' name, Amen.

You may be seated.

The Old Testament ends with this expectation. Last chapter of the Old Testament.

Behold, the day is coming burning like an oven when all the arrogant and all the

evil doers will be stubble.

The day that his coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

But, for you who fear my name,

the son of righteousness

shall rise with healing in its wings.

You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

And you shall tread down the wicked.

For they will be ashes under your souls of your feet.

On that day, when I act, says the Lord of hosts.

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