Jan 4th, 2009 Worship Service
Leader: Let us give thanks for the mercies of God!
People: O God of mercies our covenant keeping friend, You have been gracious to us through all these years of our lives.
Leader: We thank You for your loving care, which has filled our days and brought us to this time and place.
People: We praise Your Holy Name! O God our Creator, Sustainer and Redeemer.
Pastor: Father you have given us life and reason. You have placed us in a world filled with Your glory, You have comforted us with family and friends, You have ministered to us through the hands of Your chosen people, our brothers and sisters.
Congregation: You have filled our hearts with a hunger for Your words of life, You have given us peace, You have redeemed us and called us to a high calling in Christ, You have given us a place in the fellowship of Your Spirit and the witness of the church Your visible community in this world.
Hymn: ‘Now Thank We All Our God!’ RCH#556
Pastor: You have been our light in darkness, a rock of refuge in our adversities and a tower of strength in our temptations. You have been the very spirit of joy and the all sufficient reward of all our labors.
Congregation: You remembered us when we forgot You. You followed us with patience when we tried to flee from Your will; You met us with forgiveness when we returned to You, and filled us with Your amazing grace. We praise Your Holy Name, O God our Father and King!
Praise the name of Jesus, praise the name of Jesus
Hymn Lyrics
He’s my rock, He’s my fortress, He’s my deliverer
In him will I trust, praise the name of Jesus!
Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 31: 31-34 Mr. Paul Joseph Gummadi
Pastor: Friends in Christ, the Christian life is redeemed from sin and consecrated to God, through baptism, we have become a part of the new eternal covenant of which Christ is the mediator, this He did for us with his own blood. God’s promise for us is new life in Christ. He is the author and finisher of our faith, we must pledge to live no more for ourselves but in all things live for Christ who loved us and gave himself for us!
Congregation: We are here to declare that we belong to God and we come in humility to renew our covenant, we meet as generations before us have done, to declare in faith that we are God’s people. To Him the Lord our God be glory honor, worship and praise!
Gospel Reading: John 15: 1-8 Mrs. Supriya Silvary
Congregation: O God searcher of our hearts, You formed us as a people and claimed us for Your own, we come to acknowledge Your sovereignty and grace and enter into a new covenant with You, reveal any reluctance or falsehood within us, let Your Spirit impress on our hearts the truth of our inmost being receive us in mercy through Jesus Christ our mediator who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God for ever, Amen!
Offertory:
Pastor: Commit yourselves to Christ as His servants; give yourselves to Him and each other. There is much to do in the kingdom of God, let us do it, all for His glory.
Congregation: Let me be Your servant, under Your command, I will no longer be my own, I will give up myself to Your will in all things. Lord make me what Your will, I put myself fully into Your hands. Put me to doing, put me to suffering, let me be employed for You or laid aside for You, let me be full, let me be empty, let me have all things, let me have nothing, freely with a willing heart I give it all to You for Your pleasure and disposal, for You have promised mercy to me. I renounce the work of the devil and come to You blessed Jesus let the covenant I make here today be ratified in heaven. Amen!
Hymn: ‘I Surrender All’ RCH#366
Sermon: ‘Looking Forward' Rev. David Davis
*Closing Hymn: ‘Blessed assurance’ RCH# 345
*Closing Prayer & Benediction: Rev. David Davis
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