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Worship the King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAyKmYD2Zg8
Prayer
Father
God we thank you that we can come into your presence this morning.
Great is your love for us, it is deeper than we can fathom, wider
than beyond measure and bigger than the universe.
We
know we are
not worthy. Our sin is always before us. But we ask that you will
save us from our selfishness,
blindness, our greed and pride.
Through
the power of the Holy Spirit may we trust in your Amazing grace.
Amen
Genesis
chapter 6: verses 5-8 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
5 The
Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that
every imagination and intention of all human thinking was
only evil continually.
6 And
the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was
grieved at heart.
7 So
the Lord said, I will destroy, blot out, and wipe away
mankind, whom I have created from the face of the ground—not only
man, [but] the beasts and the creeping things and the birds of the
air—for it grieves Me and makes Me regretful that I have
made them.
8 But
Noah found grace (favour) in the eyes of the Lord.
9 This
is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a
just and righteous man, blameless in his [evil]
generation; Noah walked [in habitual fellowship] with God.
Grace
as favour.
God’s
favour is the power that changes things for us. God's
favour covers every area of our lives! First and foremost, you and I
are saved by His grace, favour. To be saved means to be delivered,
protected, preserved, healed and made whole.
How
many of you have ever seen the film Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
There
is a dialogue between Harry
and his godfather, Sirius
Black.
Harry
says “This
connection between me and Voldemort. What
if the reason for it is that I am becoming more like him? I just feel
so angry, all the time. What if after everything that I've been
through, something's gone wrong inside me? What if I'm becoming bad?”
Sirius
Black
“I
want you to listen to me very carefully, Harry. You're not a bad
person. You're a very good person, who bad things have happened to.
Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters
(supporters
of Voldemort) .
These
are a
radical group of wizards and witches, led by the dark wizard Lord
Voldemort, who seek to purify the wizarding community by eliminating
wizards and witches born to non-magical parents.)
We've
all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we
choose to act on. That's who we really are.”
Although
this is fiction there is a Christian message in it. We know
there is bad in us this, is sin. Jesus tells us we are His. He
takes way our sin and makes us in the good /new
person he wants us to be. He turns our darkness into light. a
light that shines through our actions
His
amazing grace shines for all who want to see and feel his amazing
love.
Amazing
Grace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG3wOkWyYAA
Ruth
Chapter 1 verses 1 – 18 says;
1 In
the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the
land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his
wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of
Moab. 2 The man’s name was Elimelek, his wife’s
name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and
Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah.
And they went to Moab and lived there.
3 Now
Elimelek, Naomi’s husband, died, and she was left with her two
sons. 4 They married Moabite women, one named Orpah
and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten
years, 5 both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and
Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.
Naomi
and Ruth Return to Bethlehem
6 When
Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid
of his people by providing food for them, she and her
daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there. 7 With
her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living
and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of
Judah.
8 Then
Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you, to
your mother’s home. May the Lord show you
kindness, as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and
to me. 9 May the Lord grant that each of you will
find rest in the home of another husband.”
Then
she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud 10 and
said to her, “We will go back with you to your people.”
11 But
Naomi said, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me?
Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your
husbands? 12 Return home, my daughters; I am too old to
have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for
me—even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to
sons— 13 would you wait until they grew up? Would
you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more
bitter for me than for you, because the Lord’s hand has
turned against me!”
14 At
this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her
mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
15 “Look,”
said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her people
and her gods. Go back with her.”
16 But
Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back
from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will
stay. Your people will be my people and your God my
God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be
buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so
severely, if even death separates you and me.” 18 When
Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped
urging her.
Ruth
2: 1 – 23 Moabites were
worshippers
of pagan gods
1 Now
Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a man of
standing from the clan of Elimelek,
whose name was Boaz.
2 And
Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go
to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in
whose eyes I find favour.”
Naomi
said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.” 3 So she went
out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. As
it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was
from the clan of Elimelek. =
4 Just
then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters,
“The Lord be with you!”
“The Lord bless
you!” they answered.
5 Boaz
asked the overseer of his harvesters, “Who does that young woman
belong to?”
6 The
overseer replied, “She is the Moabite who came back from Moab
with Naomi. 7 She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather
among the sheaves behind the harvesters.’ She came into the
field and has remained here from morning till now, except for a short
rest in the shelter.”
8 So
Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me. Don’t go and glean
in another field and don’t go away from here. Stay here with the
women who work for me. 9 Watch the field where the men are
harvesting, and follow along after the women. I have told the men not
to lay a hand on you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a
drink from the water jars the men have filled.”
10 At
this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him,
“Why have I found such favour in your eyes that you notice me—a
foreigner?”
11 Boaz
replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your
mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left
your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a
people you did not know before. 12 May the Lord repay
you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by
the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you
have come to take refuge.”
13 “May
I continue to find favour in your eyes, my lord,” she said.
“You have put me at ease by speaking kindly to your servant—though
I do not have the standing of one of your servants.” 14 At
mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here. Have some bread and
dip it in the wine vinegar.”
When
she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her some roasted
grain. She ate all she wanted and had some left over. 15 As
she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, “Let her gather
among the sheaves and don’t reprimand her. 16 Even
pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her
to pick up, and don’t rebuke her.”
17 So
Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the
barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah. (That is,
probably about 30 pounds or about 13 kilograms) 18 She carried
it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered.
Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over after
she had eaten enough.
19 Her
mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you
work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!”
Then
Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been
working. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she
said.
20 “The Lord bless
him!” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. “He has not stopped
showing his kindness to the living and the dead.” She added,
“That man is our close relative; he is one of our
guardian-redeemers. (The Hebrew word for guardian-redeemer is
a legal term for one who has the obligation to redeem a relative in
serious difficulty ”)
21 Then
Ruth the Moabite said, “He even said to me, ‘Stay with my
workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.’”
22 Naomi
said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It will be good for you, my
daughter, to go with the women who work for him, because in someone
else’s field you might be harmed.”
23 So
Ruth stayed close to the women of Boaz to glean until the barley and
wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her
mother-in-law.
Boaz
showed compassion, mercy, understanding, also he was not above
eating with his servants. Sharing his harvest with a stranger, a
foreigner. Some one who had worshipped other gods. She had found that
Boaz showed his grace kindness and was taken aback, but found
reassurance in his words
But
Ruth also made a commitment when she said she wanted to stay and look
after Naomi
Ruth
said “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you.
Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your
people will be my people and your God my God. 17 Where
you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal
with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and
me.”
Jesus
shows us grace and teaches us that when he shows us His grace, then
we then learn to show kindness to someone else even when they don't
deserve it. Grace is going out of our way to give your compassion,
kindness and love to someone even if they might not appreciate it, or
return the favour.
Kingdom
of God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOrkdW5NAM0
Prayer
Kingdom
of god is Justice and Joy
We
thank you O God that your justice and joy for they work together to
bring us full salvation. t through your salvation we can feel the joy
of knowing you with in our hearts
Kingdom
of God is mercy and grace
We
thank you O God that your mercy and grace work together to Bring us
comfort and peace - beyond our understanding It is good that we can
feel your presence with in our hearts.
The
kingdom of God is challenge and choice
We
thank you O God that you challenge us to do your bidding make us
willing to make the right choices. We know you gave people free will.
When you prompt us to speak in your name make our bodies and minds
as willing as our spirit. For you O God live with in us.
Gods
kingdom is come the gift and the goal
We
thank you O God that your kingdom is now in this world. We pray for
all who are caught up in the selfishness and evil.
Father
God we thank you for your gift of Son Jesus Christ our Lord who is
the prince of peace. We pray in His name that conflicts may cease
from country to country, from neighbour to neighbour, and bring
harmony within families. We thank you for his life and teachings,
for His death and resurrection. The goal of eternal life is
available freely for all.
Father
God be with all Children as they restart or start school that they
may be taught wiseley.
We
pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ everywhere. We pray for
our families and friends, for the frail, the lonely and sick. May
they all feel your loving arms around them and be with us all as we
say the prayer our Lord taught us.
Our
Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come;
thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our
daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who
trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us
from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for
ever and ever. Amen
Jesus’
shows His grace towards someone even when they don't deserve it.
By
our actions of compassion, kindness and love to someone even if they
might not appreciate it, or return the favour. Is sharing His Grace.
Now
thank we all our God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLPWeF6GOyo
1
Now
thank we all our God
with heart and hands and voices,
who
wondrous things hath done,
in whom His world rejoices; ..
Who,
from our mothers’ arms
hath blessed us on our way
with
countless gifts of love,
and still is. . ours today.
2
O
may this bounteous God
through all our life be near us,
with
ever joyful hearts
and blessed peace to cheer us; ..
and
keep us still in grace,
and guide us when perplexed;
and
free us from all ills,
in this world. . and the next.
3
All
praise and thanks to God
the Father now be given;
the Son,
and Him who reigns
with them in highest heaven;..
the one
eternal God,
whom earth and heaven adore;
for thus it was,
. is now, .
and shall be. . evermore.
Words
https://sdahymnals.com/Hymnal/559-now-thank-we-all-our-god/
Help
us as we endeavour to be your hands and feet to the poor and the
oppressed.
As
we go from here and carry your gospel of peace, Fill us with your
Spirit deep within our hearts. As we lift our eyes to worship you,
Refill us with hope as we glimpse again the promise of Heaven.
Amen.
