daily reading 49.4 (Nehemiah 10:28–29)

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Our opening prayer for this week:

The advent of our King

Our prayers must now employ,

And we must hymns of welcome sing

In strains of holy joy.

The everlasting Son

Incarnate deigns to be;

Himself a servant’s form puts on

To set His servants free.

O Zion’s Daughter, rise

To meet your lowly King,

Nor let your faithless heart despise

The peace He comes to bring.

As Judge, on clouds of light,

He soon will come again

And his true members all unite

With him in bliss to reign.

Before the dawning day

Let sin’s dark deeds be gone,

The sinful self be put away,

The new self all put on.

All glory to the Son,

Who comes to set us free,

With Father, Spirit, ever One,

Through all eternity. Amen.

 

Nehemiah 10:28–29

• The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with their wives, sons, and daughters, everyone who is able to understand and who has separated themselves from the surrounding peoples to obey the law of God— 29 join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the law of God given through God's servant Moses and to obey carefully all the commands, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.

• Helpful notes on Nehemiah 10:28–29 

For yourself pray:

• That you may influence someone else well for Jesus' sake

For others pray:

• That God makes your congregation extremely serious about doing everything he commands, for Jesus' sake

A psalm to listen to and ponder, as time allows:

• Psalm 140  (YouTube, duet)