Readings for Celebrating Advent

100 Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the Earth!

² Serve the LORD with gladness. Come before Him with joyfulness!

³ Know that the LORD is God. He has made us, and not we ourselves. We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

⁴ Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, into His courts with rejoicing. Give Him thanks. Praise Him; and bless His Name.

⁵ For the LORD is good. His mercy is everlasting; and His truth is from generation to generation. A Psalm of David

²⁰ ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice, and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.

²¹ ‘To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, even as I overcame and sit with My Father on His throne.

²² ‘Let he who has an ear, hear what the Spirit says to the Churches.’”