Psaume 9 - Je louerai l'Eternel de tout mon coeur...

1.  Je louerai l'Éternel de tout mon coeur, Je raconterai toutes tes merveilles.
2.  Je ferai de toi le sujet de ma joie et de mon allégresse, Je chanterai ton nom, Dieu Très Haut!
3.  Mes ennemis reculent, Ils chancellent, ils périssent devant ta face.
4.  Car tu soutiens mon droit et ma cause, Tu sièges sur ton trône en juste juge.
5.  Tu châties les nations, tu détruis le méchant, Tu effaces leur nom pour toujours et à perpétuité.
6.  Plus d'ennemis! Des ruines éternelles! Des villes que tu as renversées! Leur souvenir est anéanti.
7.  L'Éternel règne à jamais, Il a dressé son trône pour le jugement;
8.  Il juge le monde avec justice, Il juge les peuples avec droiture.
9.  L'Éternel est un refuge pour l'opprimé, Un refuge au temps de la détresse.
10.  Ceux qui connaissent ton nom se confient en toi. Car tu n'abandonnes pas ceux qui te cherchent, ô Éternel!
11.  Chantez à l'Éternel, qui réside en Sion, Publiez parmi les peuples ses hauts faits!
12.  Car il venge le sang et se souvient des malheureux, Il n'oublie pas leurs cris.
13.  Aie pitié de moi, Éternel! Vois la misère où me réduisent mes ennemis, Enlève-moi des portes de la mort,
14.  Afin que je publie toutes tes louanges, Dans les portes de la fille de Sion, Et que je me réjouisse de ton salut.
15.  Les nations tombent dans la fosse qu'elles ont faite, Leur pied se prend au filet qu'elles ont caché.
16.  L'Éternel se montre, il fait justice, Il enlace le méchant dans l'oeuvre de ses mains. -Jeu d'instruments. Pause.
17.  Les méchants se tournent vers le séjour des morts, Toutes les nations qui oublient Dieu.
18.  Car le malheureux n'est point oublié à jamais, L'espérance des misérables ne périt pas à toujours.
19.  Lève-toi, ô Éternel! Que l'homme ne triomphe pas! Que les nations soient jugées devant ta face!
20.  Frappe-les d'épouvante, ô Éternel! Que les peuples sachent qu'ils sont des hommes! -Pause.

Jesus Restores a Demon-Possessed Man

Jesus Restores a Demon-Possessed Man

5 They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes.[a] 2 When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him. 3 This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. 4 For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

6 When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. 7 He shouted at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God’s name don’t torture me!” 8 For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of this man, you impure spirit!”

9 Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”

“My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.” 10 And he begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of the area.

11 A large herd of pigs was feeding on the nearby hillside. 12 The demons begged Jesus, “Send us among the pigs; allow us to go into them.” 13 He gave them permission, and the impure spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd, about two thousand in number, rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.

14 Those tending the pigs ran off and reported this in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened. 15 When they came to Jesus, they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons, sitting there, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. 16 Those who had seen it told the people what had happened to the demon-possessed man—and told about the pigs as well. 17 Then the people began to plead with Jesus to leave their region.

18 As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged to go with him. 19 Jesus did not let him, but said, “Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” 20 So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis[b] how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed.

Praying in the power of the Holy Spirit,

Psalm 115

Verse 1

To you alone, O Lord, to you alone,

and not to us,

must glory be given, because of

your constant love and faith-

fulness.

Verse 13

He will bless everyone who honours

him,

the great and the small alike.

Verse 15

May you be blessed by the Lord,

who made heaven and earth.

Isaiah 30 verse 20

The Lord will make you go through

hard times, but he himself will be

there to teach you, and you will

not have to search for him any

more.

If you wander off the road to the

right or the left, you will hear

his voice behind you saying,

"Here is the road. Follow it."

Jude 20

But you, my friends, keep on building

yourselves up on your most sacred

faith.

Pray in the power of the Holy Spirit,

and keep yourselves in the love

of God, as you wait for our Lord

Jesus Christ in his mercy to give

you eternal life.

Bible verses for healing!

6 January 2025

Jeremiah 30:17

For I will restore health to you,

    and your wounds I will heal,
declares the Lord,
because they have called you an outcast:
    ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’

“Thus says the Lord:

30:18

Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob
    and have compassion on his dwellings;
the city shall be rebuilt on its mound,
    and the palace shall stand where it used to be.
19 19  Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving,
    and the voices of those who celebrate.
I will multiply them, and they shall not be few;
    I will make them honored, and they shall not be small.

20 Their children shall be as they were of old,
    and their congregation shall be established before me,
    and I will punish all who oppress them.
21 Their prince shall be one of themselves;
    their ruler shall come out from their midst;
I will make him draw near, and he shall approach me,
    for who would dare of himself to approach me?
declares the Lord.
22 22 And you shall be my people,
    and I will be your God.”

1 Corinthians 1 ESV The message of the cross is the power of God

Greeting

1 Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,

2 To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thanksgiving

4 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, 5 that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— 6 even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— 7 so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Divisions in the Church

10 I appeal to you, brothers,[a] by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. 11 For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. 12 What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.” 13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? 14 I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, 15 so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name. 16 (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.) 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

Christ the Wisdom and Power of God

18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written,

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
    and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”

20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach[b] to save those who believe. 22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards,[c] not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being[d] might boast in the presence of God. 30 And because of him[e] you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

For unto us a son is born!

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Zechariah 1-3 • Visions from God (Part1)

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Zechariah

The vision of Obadiah

1 The vision of Obadiah.

Edom Will Be Humbled

Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom:
We have heard a report from the Lord,
    and a messenger has been sent among the nations:
“Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!” 2 
Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
    you shall be utterly despised.[a] 3 
The pride of your heart has deceived you,
    you who live in the clefts of the rock,[b]
    in your lofty dwelling,
who say in your heart,
    “Who will bring me down to the ground?”4 
Though you soar aloft like the eagle,
    though your nest is set among the stars,
    from there I will bring you down,
declares the Lord.

5 If thieves came to you,
    if plunderers came by night—
    how you have been destroyed!—
    would they not steal only enough for themselves?
If grape gatherers came to you,
    would they not leave gleanings?
6 How Esau has been pillaged,
    his treasures sought out!
7 All your allies have driven you to your border;
    those at peace with you have deceived you;
they have prevailed against you;
    those who eat your bread[c] have set a trap beneath you—
    you have[d] no understanding.

8 Will I not on that day, declares the Lord,
    destroy the wise men out of Edom,
    and understanding out of Mount Esau?
9 And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman,
    so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.

Edom's Violence Against Jacob

10 Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob,
    shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever
    
11 On the day that you stood aloof,
    on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
    and cast lots for Jerusalem,
    you were like one of them.
12 But do not gloat over the day of your brother
    in the day of his misfortune;
do not rejoice over the people of Judah
    in the day of their ruin;
do not boast in the day of distress.
13 Do not enter the gate of my people
    in the day of their calamity;
do not gloat over his disaster
    in the day of his calamity;
do not loot his wealth
    in the day of his calamity.
14 Do not stand at the crossroads
    to cut off his fugitives;
do not hand over his survivors
    in the day of distress.

The Day of the Lord Is Near

15 For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations.
As you have done, it shall be done to you;
    your deeds shall return on your own head.
16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain,
    so all the nations shall drink continually;
they shall drink and swallow,
    and shall be as though they had never been.
17 But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,
    and it shall be holy,
and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
    and the house of Joseph a flame,
    and the house of Esau stubble;
they shall burn them and consume them,
    and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.

The Kingdom of the Lord

19 Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau,
    and those of the Shephelah shall possess the land of the Philistines;
they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 The exiles of this host of the people of Israel
    shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,
and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
    shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
21 Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion
    to rule Mount Esau,
    and the kingdom shall be the Lord's.

The Sinner's prayer!

The Sinner's Prayer (by Dr. Ray Pritchard)

Lord Jesus, for too long I’ve kept you out of my life. I know that I am a sinner and that I cannot save myself. No longer will I close the door when I hear you knocking. By faith I gratefully receive your gift of salvation. I am ready to trust you as my Lord and Savior. 

Thank you, Lord Jesus, for coming to earth. I believe you are the Son of God who died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead on the third day. Thank you for bearing my sins and giving me the gift of eternal life. I believe your words are true. Come into my heart, Lord Jesus, and be my Savior. Amen.

Differences between Catholic and Evangelicals

• The Bible

  Evangelicals believe the Bible is the word of God and the ultimate authority.
• Jesus Christ

  Evangelicals believe Jesus Christ is the savior and lord, and that he died for the sins of humanity. Salvation is only possible through faith in Jesus Christ and a personal relationship with him.

Sharing the gospel
Evangelicals believe that they must spread the "good news" of Jesus Christ to others. 

Evangelicals are also known as "born-again Christians". The term "evangelical" comes from the Greek word euangelion, which means "the good news" or the "gospel". 

Verses you may want to use when evangelising!

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• Matthew 28:19–20: Jesus calls for people to make disciples of all nations 
• 1 Corinthians 9:19–23: Paul says he became a servant to all people 
• 2 Timothy 4:1–5: Paul instructs Timothy to preach the word and do the work of an evangelist 

• Acts 1:8: We receive power from the Holy Spirit to be witnesses for Jesus 

• Romans 10:14: We cannot expect people to believe in someone they have never heard of 
• 1 Peter 3:15: We should be prepared to give a reason for the hope that we have in Jesus 
• Psalm 96:3: Believers should declare God's glory to all nations 

Some tips for evangelizing include:

• Sharing your testimony of how the gospel has saved your life 
• Being honest and genuine in how you share your experiences 
• Sharing the gospel with love, clarity, and simplicity 
• Having confidence in the gospel 
• Being bold and clear with the gospel 
• Taking risks in sharing the gospel 
• Sharing why you have your hope in Christ with gentleness and respect 

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• 18 Powerful Bible Verses About Evangelism | Breeze ChMS

  

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• 40 Verses about Evangelism - Jesus Film Project

  18 Jan 2017 — 39. Give reason for the hope you have. But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer