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Philippians 2:13

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It is God who produces in you the desires and actions that please him.

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May he bend our hearts toward him. Then we will follow him and keep his commands, laws, and rules, which he commanded our ancestors ⌞to keep⌟.

Also, God guided the people of Judah so that they united to carry out the command which the king and the leaders gave from the Lord’s word.

The promise the Lord had spoken through Jeremiah was about to come true in Cyrus’ first year as king of Persia. The Lord inspired the king to make this announcement throughout his whole kingdom and then to put it in writing.

Then the heads of the families of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites—everyone God had inspired—came forward to rebuild the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem.

⌞I, Ezra, said:⌟ Thanks be to the Lord God of our ancestors. He put this into the king’s mind to make the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem beautiful.

“What do you want?” the king asked me. So I prayed to the God of heaven,

Truly, God does all this two or three times with people

Your people will volunteer when you call up your army. Your young people will come to you in holy splendor like dew in the early morning.

Direct my heart toward your written instructions rather than getting rich in underhanded ways.

Do not let me be persuaded to do anything evil or to become involved with wickedness, with people who are troublemakers. Do not let me taste their delicacies.

The king’s heart is like streams of water. Both are under the Lord’s control. He turns them in any direction he chooses.

O Lord, you will establish peace for us, since you have done everything for us.

“But this is the promise that I will make to Israel after those days,” declares the Lord: “I will put my teachings inside them, and I will write those teachings on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Don’t be afraid, little flock. Your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.

“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those who have his good will!”

John answered, “People can’t receive anything unless it has been given to them from heaven.

The prophets wrote, ‘God will teach everyone.’ Those who do what they have learned from the Father come to me.

So he added, “That is why I told you that people cannot come to me unless the Father provides the way.”

The Lord’s power was with his followers, and a large number of people believed and turned to the Lord.

Because of the kindness  that God has shown me, I ask you not to think of yourselves more highly than you should. Instead, your thoughts should lead you to use good judgment based on what God has given each of you as believers.

Before the children had been born or had done anything good or bad, Rebekah was told that the older child would serve the younger one. This was said to Rebekah so that God’s plan would remain a matter of his choice,

Therefore, God’s choice does not depend on a person’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.

There are different types of work to do, but the same God produces every gift in every person.

But God’s kindness  made me what I am, and that kindness was not wasted on me. Instead, I worked harder than all the others. It was not I who did it, but God’s kindness was with me.

By ourselves we are not qualified in any way to claim that we can do anything. Rather, God makes us qualified.

God also decided ahead of time to choose us through Christ according to his plan, which makes everything work the way he intends.

Because of his love he had already decided to adopt us through Jesus Christ. He freely chose to do this

when he revealed the mystery of his plan to us. He had decided to do this through Christ.

God saved you through faith as an act of kindness. You had nothing to do with it. Being saved is a gift from God.

With this in mind, we always pray that our God will make you worthy of his call. We also pray that through ⌞his⌟ power he will help you accomplish every good desire and help you do everything your faith produces.

God saved us and called us to be holy, not because of what we had done, but because of his own plan and kindness. Before the world began, God planned that Christ Jesus would show us God’s kindness.

May this God of peace prepare you to do every good thing he wants. May he work in us through Jesus Christ to do what is pleasing to him. Glory belongs to Jesus Christ forever. Amen.

Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! God has given us a new birth because of his great mercy. We have been born into a new life that has a confidence which is alive because Jesus Christ has come back to life.




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