Scripture – Psalm 17:1-5 1 Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry;     give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit. 2 From you let my vindication come;     let your eyes see the right. 3 If you try my heart, if you visit me by night,     if you…

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Scripture – 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 11 To this end we always pray for you, asking that our God will make you worthy of his call and will fulfill by his power every good resolve and work of faith, 12 so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you and you in…

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Scripture – 2 Thessalonians 1:9-10 9 These will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10 when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be marveled at on that day among all who have believed, because our testimony to…

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Scripture – 2 Thessalonians 1:5-8 5 This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God and is intended to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering. 6 For it is indeed just of God to repay with affliction those who afflict you 7 and to give relief to…

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Scripture – 2 Thessalonians 1:4 4 Therefore we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith during all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring. Prayer Focus: We’ve often heard that boasting is not an encouraged Christian practice. And yet, sometimes there are things and people worth…

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Scripture – 2 Thessalonians 1:3 3 We must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Prayer Focus: As we continue this week, we turn to the second letter to the…

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Scripture – Isaiah 1:16-17 16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;    remove your evil deeds    from before my eyes;cease to do evil; 17     learn to do good;seek justice;    rescue the oppressed;defend the orphan;    plead for the widow. Prayer Focus: These verses make even more explicit the charge that Isaiah brings against God’s people. Instead of festivals…

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Scripture – Isaiah 1:12-15 12 When you come to appear before me,    who asked this from your hand?    Trample my courts no more! 13 Bringing offerings is futile;    incense is an abomination to me.New moon and Sabbath and calling of convocation—    I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity. 14 Your new moons and your appointed…

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Scripture – Joel 2:32 32 Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved, for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls. Prayer Focus: When this verse is quoted in…

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Scripture – Joel 2:30-31 30 I will show portents in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. Prayer Focus: There is a strand in scripture that…

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