CHOSEN
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012Therefore, as God’s chosen people,
holy and dearly loved, clothe
yourselves with compassion,
kindness, humility, gentleness
and patience.
(Colossians 3.12).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Therefore, as God’s chosen people,
holy and dearly loved, clothe
yourselves with compassion,
kindness, humility, gentleness
and patience.
(Colossians 3.12).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly
as you teach and admonish one another
with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms,
hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude
in your hearts to God.
(Colossians 3.16).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
I am not ashamed of the gospel
(Best News Ever), because it is
the power of God for the salvation
of everyone who believes: first for
the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in
the gospel (Best News Ever) a
righteousness from God is revealed,
a righteousness that is by faith from
first to last, just as it is written: “The
righteous will live by faith.”
(Romans 1.16 & 17).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
But, because of His great love for us,
God Who is rich in mercy, made us
alive in Christ even when we were
dead in transgressions- it is by grace
you have been saved.
(Ephesians 2.5).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
We believe that Jesus died and rose again
and so we believe that God will bring
with Jesus those who have fallen asleep
in Him.
(I. Thessalonians 4.14).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Once you were alienated from God
and were enemies in your minds
because of your evil behavior.
But now He has reconciled you
by Christ’s physical body through
death to present you holy in His
sight, without blemish and free
from accusation- if you continue
in your faith, established and
firm, not moved from the hope
held out in the gospel (Best News
Ever). This is the gospel that you
heard and that has been proclaimed
to every creature under heaven, and
of which I, Paul have become a servant.
(Colossians 1.21-23).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the
will of God, and Timothy our brother,
To the holy and faithful brothers and
sisters in Christ at Colosse:
Grace and peace to you from God our
Father.
We always thank God, the Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
because we have heard of the love you
have for all the saints- the faith and love
that spring from the hope that is stored up
for you in heaven and that you have already
heard about in the word of truth, the gospel
(Best News Ever) that has come to you.
All over the world this gospel is bearing
fruit and growing, just as it has been doing
among you since the day you heard it and
understood God’s grace in all its truth.
You learned it from Epaphras, our dear
fellow servant, who s a faithful minister
of Christ on our behalf, and who also
told us of your love in the Spirit.
For this reason, since the day we
heard about you, we have not
stopped praying for you and asking
God to fill you with the knowledge of
His will through all spiritual wisdom
and understanding.
And we pray this in order that you may
live a life worthy of the Lord and may
please Him in every way:
bearing fruit in every good work,
growing in the knowledge of God,
being strengthened with all power
according to His glorious might so
that you may have great endurance
and patience, and joyfully giving
thanks to the Father Who has
qualified you to share in the
inheritance of the saints in the
kingdom of light.
For He has rescued us from the
dominion of darkness and brought us
into the kingdom of the Son He loves,
in Whom we have redemption, the
forgiveness of sins.
He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn over all creation.
For by Him all things were created:
things in heaven and on earth,
visible and invisible, whether thrones
or powers or rulers or authorities;
all things were created by Him and for Him.
He is before all things, and in Him all things
hold together.
And He is the head of the body, the church;
He is the beginning and firstborn from among
the dead, so that in everything He might have
the supremacy. For God was pleased to have
all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him
to reconcile to Himself all things, whether
things on earth or things in heaven, by making
peace through His blood, shed on the cross.
(Colossians 1.1-20).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
I will exalt You, my God the King;
I will praise Your name for ever
and ever.
Every day I will praise You and
extol Your name for ever and ever.
(Psalm 145.1 &2).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Be imitators of God, therefore,
as dearly loved children and live
a life of love, just as Christ loved
us and gave Himself up for us as
a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
(Ephesians 5. 1 & 2).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
We believe that Jesus died and rose again
and so we believe that God will bring with
Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.
(I. Thessalonians 4.14).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!