Christ in Our Home devotions Nov 6 - Nov 13, 2016

Christ In Our Home Devotions

Saints Triumphant

God and his saints for eternity

1. Make the sign of the cross over yourself and say:

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

2. Pray Luther’s Morning or Evening Prayer:

I thank you, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, your dear Son, that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger. Keep me this day also from sin and every evil, that all my doings and life may please you. Into your hands I commend my body and soul and all things. Let your holy angel be with me, that the wicked foe may have no power over me. Amen.

I thank you, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, your dear Son, that you have graciously kept me this day. Forgive me all my sins, and graciously keep me this night. Into your hands I commend my body and soul and all things. Let your holy angel be with me, that the wicked foe may have no power over me. Amen.

3. Pray the Lord’s Prayer:

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen.

4. Pray the Prayer of the Week

Almighty God and Savior, you have set the final day and hour when we shall be delivered from this world of sin and death.  Keep us ever watchful for the coming of your Son that we may sit with him and all your holy ones at the marriage feast in heaven; through your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

5. Say the Apostles’ Creed:

     I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.

     I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From there he will come to judge the living and the dead.

     I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

6. Pray the Psalm of the Week: Psalm 150

Refrain: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Praise God in his sanctuary;*

praise him in his mighty heavens.

Praise him for his acts of power;*

praise him for his surpassing greatness.

Refrain

Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,*

praise him with the harp and lyre,

praise him with tambourine and dancing,*

praise him with strings and flute,

praise him with the clash of cymbals,*

praise him with resounding cymbals.

Refrain

Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.*

Praise the LORD.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son*

and to the Holy Spirit,

as it was in the beginning,*

is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Refrain

7. Say the Verse of the Week:

Alleluia. They are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple. Alleluia.  (Revelation 7:15a)

8. Read a Devotion or the Following Suggested Scriptures

M: Jeremiah 46-48; Hebrews 4

T: Jeremiah 349-50; Hebrews 5

W: Jeremiah 51-52; Hebrews 6

T: Lamentations 1-2; Hebrews 7

F: Lamentations 3-5; Hebrews 8

S: Ezekiel 1-3 Hebrews 9

S: Ezekiel 4-6; Hebrews 10:1-23 & Worship in the House of the Lord

9. Prayer of JOY: Jesus; Others; and Yourself

10. Sing or Say the Hymn of the Week: 

207  The Day Is Surely Drawing Near

1  The day is surely drawing near When God’s Son, the Anointed,

Shall with great majesty appear As judge of all appointed.

All mirth and laughter then shall cease When flames on flames will still increase,

As Scripture truly teaches.

2  A trumpet loud shall then resound And all the earth be shaken.

Then all who in their graves are found Shall from their sleep awaken

And with the living in that hour By the Almighty’s boundless pow’r

Be changed at his commanding.

3  A book is opened then to all, A record truly telling

What each has done, both great and small, When he on earth was dwelling,

And ev’ry heart be clearly seen, And all be known as they have been

In thoughts and words and actions.

  

4  Then woe to those who scorned the Lord And sought but carnal pleasures,

Who here despised his precious Word And loved their earthly treasures!

With shame and trembling they will stand And at the judge’s stern command

To Satan be delivered.

5  My Savior paid the debt I owe And for my sin was smitten;

Within the Book of Life I know My name has now been written.

I will not doubt, for I am free, And Satan cannot threaten me;

There is no condemnation!

6  O Jesus Christ, do not delay, But hasten our salvation;

We often tremble on our way In fear and tribulation.

Your saints are waiting patiently; Come soon, Redeemer; make us free

From ev’ry evil. Amen.

Text: Bartholomäus Ringwaldt, 1532–99, abr.; tr. Philip A. Peter, 1832–1919, alt.