daily reading 30.3 (Zechariah 14:16–21)

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023

Our opening prayer for this week:

Stay with us, life-giving Spirit,
God from all eternity!
May your power never fail us;
Dwell within us constantly.
Then shall truth and life and light
Banish all the gloom of night.

Grant to us your fullest wisdom.
Holy purity renew,
So we ever may be seeking
Only that which pleases you.
Let your knowledge spread and grow,
Working error's overthrow.

Show us, Lord, the path of blessing;
When we trespass on our way,
Cast, O Lord, our sins behind your
And be with us day by day.
Should we stray, O Lord, recall;
Work repentance when we fall.

With our spirit, Lord, bear witness
That we are the sons of God
Who rely upon him solely
When we pass beneath the rod;
For we know, as children should,
That the cross is for our good.

Prompt us, Lord, to come before him
With a childlike heart to pray;
Sigh in us, O Holy Spirit,
When we know not what to say.
Then our prayer is not in vain,
And our faith new strength shall gain.

Holy Spirit, strong and mighty.
You who fashion all things new,
Make your work within us perfect
And the evil foe subdue.
Grant us weapons for the strife.
With your victory crown our life.

And when life’s frail thread is breaking.
Then assure us more and more,
As the heirs of life unending,
Of the glory there in store,
Glory never yet expressed,
Glory of the saints at rest. Amen.

 

Zechariah 14:16–21   

  • Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Armies, and to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.
  • 17 Should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Armies, rain will not fall on them. 18 And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter, then rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague the LORD inflicts on the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Shelters. 19 This will be the punishment of Egypt and all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.
  • 20 On that day, the words HOLY TO THE LORD will be on the bells of the horses. The pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling basins before the altar. 21 Every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the LORD of Armies. All who sacrifice will come and use the pots to cook in. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of Armies.
Helpful notes on Zechariah 14:16–21




For yourself pray:

  • That you serve God in all you do as his holy priest

For others pray:

  • That everyone in your congregation feels the joy in Christ of all they do (even what seems secular) being holy to the Lord

A psalm to listen to, as time allows:

  • Psalm 91 (YouTube, soloist with guitar and cello)

 

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