24Hour Prayer Vigil
posted: 24 Dec 2011 comments: 2category:
Here I am it's 1.45am in the morning and I'm taking part in the 24 hour prayer vigil here in the church. Already we've had a constant stream of people coming to pray. Some people might think it strange that people want to pray yet the truth is that more people pray than ever go regularly to church. There is an element of longing for more in all our souls whether we're paid up believers or not.
There are a number of quite outstanding opportunities to stimulate our...
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Christmas means…
God has not forgotten us
We are not on our own
"God is with us"
He holds time and eternity in one hand
And ours in the other
Christmas means…
God is in conversation with us
He has spoken a Word
A huge Word
An all-encompassing Word
A Word that makes all other words sound redundant
This spoken Word became a human being
Jesus
His life was The Word lived out in time
For eternity
Christmas means…
God is waiting for our reply
So...
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