Readings for Celebrating Advent
A psalm of thanksgiving
Give Thanks to the Lord
100 Shout to the Lord all the earth!
2 Serve the Lord with joy.
Come before him with a joyful shout!
3 Acknowledge that the Lord is God.
He made us and we belong to him;
we are his people
and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise.
Thank him and bless his name,
5 for the Lord is good
and his gracious love stands forever.
His faithfulness remains from generation to generation.
20 Look! I am standing at the door and knocking. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he will eat[a] with me. 21 I will give a place to sit with me on my throne to the one who overcomes,[b] just as I have overcome[c] and have sat down with my Father on his throne.
22 ‘Let everyone[d] listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.’”
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