St Marys Church

06/09/2026

Prayers complied by Chris 6th September 2026

Heavenly Father,
Thank you for the love you have for us, immeasurably more than we can comprehend, displayed so radically through your death on the cross. We praise you for filling us, your people, with the Holy Spirit. We pray that we would be rooted in the comfort and knowledge of the love you have for us, bearing fruit in all aspects of our lives.
Show us where we are struggling to do so, living for ourselves instead of living out the fruit of the Spirit. We ask that you strengthen us as we come alongside others, showing kindness, patience, gentleness and self-control.
Help us delight in you as our source of joy and peace. Thank you that we can look to Jesus as our example, who treated the most vulnerable with such grace and compassion.

Lord, we pray that our church communities would be rooted in love as we welcome in all who find their way through the doors. Help us be kind to the stranger, pointing them to you.
We pray that many people across our nation would come to know your love and what it means to have relationship with you. In your glorious name, Amen

Keep alive in us O God the spark of hope that longs for things to be better than they are. When we look at this imperfect world help us not to despair but to pray and work and yearn for the increase of your Kingdom of justice and peace. Thank you that you are our perfect God and nothing's too hard for you. Amen.

Heavenly Father, protect your church from attacks and persecution. Use your church to provide a haven of safety and refuge for those in need. Use your church to extend your Kingdom in this world. Use your church to bless the communities in which they are placed. Use your church to refresh and revive the weary and hurting. Use your church to equip your people for works of love and service. Use your church to proclaim the joyous message of the gospel. Use your church to demonstrate your faithfulness to a watching world. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Merciful God, we entrust your tender care those who are ill or in pain knowing that whatever danger threatens, your everlasting arms are there to hold them safe. Comfort and heal them, and restore them to health and strength; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Bless those who mourn, eternal God with the comfort of your love, that they may face each new day with hope and the certainty that nothing can destroy the good that has been given. May their memories become joyful, their days enriched with friendship, and their lives encircled by your love. Amen

06/09/2026

Nigel’s Talk 6th September 2026

Good morning, we continue our journey through the Old Testament, last week David spoke about the burning bush, where God had heard the cries of the suffering Israelites and He called Moses to help bring about their freedom. Exodus is the story of the biggest escape in history. Over two million slaves escape from one of the most highly fortified nations in the entire world. It is humanly impossible, an extraordinary story, and it features a series of miracles, including some of the best known in the whole bible. The leader of the Israelites at the time was a man named Moses. Moses is the second greatest man in the Old Testament after Abraham. Recalling the story so far, God had made an everlasting covenant with Abraham, his descendants were Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, who was sold into slavery by his brothers, Joseph was key, appointed by Pharaoh to lead the Egyptian nation through the feast and famine, which lead to the eventual slavery of the Israelites. Today we revisit the Passover. Jesus said, search the scriptures for they bear witness to me. May we pray.
On the 21st July 1969 Neil Armstrong said “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” when he turned from the ladder and set his left foot down on the surface of the moon – not just your average walk in the park, but a feat and an accomplishment that would never be forgotten.
For 430 years, the sons of Israel lived in Egypt. For 430 years, the Promised Land was just a promise. What do you think those first steps were like; those first steps out of Egypt? “Small steps for a man, but a giant leap for God’s people”?
They left with bread dough carried on their shoulders – the quick bread with no yeast. They left with the Egyptians’ articles of gold and silver. They left with the Egyptians’ clothes. They left with large droves of livestock – cattle and sheep. And they left with their children, all of them – while each household of the Egyptians wailed loudly at the death of the firstborn – the Israelites were spared by the blood of the Passover Lamb, as God instructed. They left with their whole family. They left with their great enemy crushed. They left with the Lord leading the way!
What do you think it was like for a father to take those first steps and dream of raising his family on their own property and build his own house and own his own animals? What was it like for the elderly who had spent so many years of life working under the slave driver and the foreman, beaten and abused, to now think of retirement outside of Egypt, set free from his enemies? What was it like for the mother who no longer had to fear that any male child might be taken from her and murdered? What was it like for the child to observe the adults so happy, parents singing praises to God, and wondering what the rest of the world looked like?
I’m sure for all of God’s people – around two million of them – that they could hardly believe what was happening as they stepped out of Egypt by the power of God’s mighty hand. So, this is what God’s deliverance feels like. This is what his redemption looks like.
What a joyous time! What a time of celebration! “What a powerful and gracious LORD we have. He kept his Word to us; he fulfilled his promises. Everything turned out for us as he said it would. The name of the Lord be praised!”
What are our steps like? Small steps? Great steps? What characterizes them – how would we describe them? Do our steps each day feel like we are leaving Egypt with our Lord?
The LORD established a new sacred calendar for his people based on this event. Exodus 12:1–2 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.”
In the Promised Land, the Israelites would use a civil calendar similar to many other nations of the Ancient Near East, a calendar they would use to keep track of seasons and planting times and harvesting times. These were lunar calendars, following the phases of the moon. The new year began in the fall, with the autumn rains. The Egyptians had a calendar that was based off of the huge agricultural event in their year – the flooding of the Nile River, which they depended upon for all their farming success.
But that’s what makes this new calendar from the Lord so important. This wasn’t just a new life, a new beginning for a new nation. This was a calendar to mark the feasts and festivals that celebrated their God, remembered what he had done for them and encouraged them in their faith life. When they said, “Happy New Year” in this calendar, they did it feasting on the Passover Lamb; they did it eating unleavened bread; they did it rejoicing in God who came to save them and make them his own people. They said “Happy New Year” rededicating themselves and their families to the Lord who brought them out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
“So that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.” God wanted them to always remember why they were no longer in Egypt, who brought them out, the great acts of power he had done for them. He wanted them to always remember his love, his faithfulness, his power, his salvation.
These are all signs of the power of sin and death at work in our lives. We need the Lord to take us out of that Egypt. That is why every March/April the Jews celebrate the Exodus, it is a festival of the Lord, a lasting ordinance Exodus 12 verse 14, this is a day you are to commemorate for the generations to come, a lasting ordinance, we all need to re-live our departure from slavery. We need to relive those small steps that mean so much because of what God has done for us.
Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for all our sins! For all our sins of habit and sins of choice. For all the sins of waywardness. For all the sins of pride; for all the sins of laziness and lethargy. Remember what Jesus has done, by taking the blood of Jesus and painting it on the doorframe of our hearts, by remembering those small steps to worship during Holy Week and remember the punishment Christ bore in our place and remember the joy of Easter Sunday and the hope of our resurrection. Relive those small steps taken when we were brought to the baptismal font and God adopted us as his own. remember Christ crucified as we take the small steps to receive and share in the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ that were given and shed for our forgiveness.
We rejoice that our slavery has been ended. Our enemy is behind us. The Lord goes before us. And he is leading us on the road to eternal life. Take those small steps each day knowing how big they really are – we are children of God. We are freed from sin’s prison house! Take each step remembering who we are and what God has done for us.
And, as Paul said, “Let us keep the festival.” In our joy and thanksgiving, consecrate ourselves to the Lord each day, by taking up our cross. We are his own child, his redeemed firstborn. We belong to God. God empowers us to flee the influence of the pagan world and to get rid of the yeast of sin. God will sustain us to live for him each day through the food of his Word and Sacrament.
What God wants for us, is the same as what he wanted for his people in their New Year, the Passover: to live constantly in the memory of their deliverance. This year will not be the year of perfection for any of us. It will not be the year of heaven on earth or world peace. It will not be the year of freedom from trouble or sorrow. But it will be a year of God’s deliverance and ongoing presence in our lives. It will be another year of marital bliss with our Bridegroom, Jesus Christ. It will be another year for life as the people of God.
On average, people take about 4,000 steps a day. That’s about one and a half million steps a year. I pray that no matter how small the steps we take, that they all be taken like they are our first steps out of Egypt. Amen.
Jesus, tells us that if a brother or sister sins against us, then we should go and show him the fault. How do we pastorally care for those who are spiritually straying? Jesus instructs us on how to restore someone who has sinned, and he teaches the importance of forgiving those who sins against you.
In order to demonstrate that our forgiveness should be unlimited, just as God’s forgiveness is to us. Jesus tells the parable about a servant who owes the King an incredible debt of 10,000 talents, the equivalent of 200,000 years wages. In other words, infinite debt, just as our sin against God is infinite. Then out of deep compassion, the King freely cancels the debt.
Salvation is all of grace, there is nothing anyone can do to earn it. Yet, as Jesus has repeatedly warned while God does not set any conditions on sinners receiving His forgiveness, He does expect those forgiven to now live lives of faithful obedience. Salt must be salty. Light must shine. A good tree will bear good fruit. Forgiven sinners, that is us, must forgive those who come to us for forgiveness.
God’s will is that we forgive one another, and Jesus’s disciples’ hunger and thirst to do His will. This parable asks us two questions. Do we appreciate the cross, the amazing grace of God’s free forgiveness? Do we anticipate the coming judgement?
Gratitude for grace and fearful obedience will keep us persevering. When Jesus said search the scriptures, for they bear witness to me, He is pointing us to the Old Testament.
The book of Exodus has spiritual significance. The Israelites discovered that their God was the God who made the whole universe and could control what He had made for their sake. They came to believe their God was more powerful than all the gods of Egypt put together. Later they came to realise that their God was the only God that existed. God is the eternal one without beginning or end, always. Yahweh is His first name, but He has many second names too, always my provider, always my helper, always my protector and always my healer, and the 40 names we gave last week, in the A-to-Z search.
In the book of Exodus, we are also presented with the extraordinary truth that the creator of everything becomes the redeemer of a few people. The word redemption includes the idea of releasing the kidnapped when the ransom price has been paid. This is how Isreal was to understand her God. He is the creator of the universe and also the redeemer of His people. We do not become Christians by living right first, but by being redeemed and liberated and then living right.
In Exodus the Israelites liberation takes place in Egypt, the legislation takes place on Mount Sinai, as they travel to Canaan. They respond to God’s covenant commitment to them. The covenant takes form of a wedding. God says I will be your God if you obey me and then the people say We will be your people and obey you. But things go wrong, a journey that could have taken 11 days to walk from Egypt to the Promised land, took 40 years.
Jesus said search the scriptures, for they bear witness to me. The exodus is central to the Old Testament, all the books that follow look back to it as the redemption on which everything else is based. In the same way the cross is central to the New Testament. Six months before Jesus died on the cross, he was 4000 feet high on Mount Hermon, talking with Moses and Elijah, Luke tells us they talked about the exodus which Jesus was to accomplish in Jerusalem.
We have a double exodus to celebrate the Exodus of Egypt and the exodus of the cross, Christ is our Passover Lamb. There is still to come a future deliverance for Christian’s equivalent to the Exodus. In revelation we find that over half the plagues of Pharaoh will happen again. Those who remain faithful to Jesus will come through victorious. As we continue our journey, I pray that no matter how small the steps we take, that they all be taken like they are our first steps out of Egypt. I encourage us all to read the Book of Exodus, and follow Jesus’s request to search the scriptures, I hope this message is one of encouragement. In John Stott’s book Basic Christianity, the final chapter is about being a Christian. That we do our duty to God, our duty to the Church and our duty to the world. Let us finish with a prayer of adoration.

04/09/2026

30/08/2026

Prayers for Sunday 30th August 2026 led by Nigel

Lord we pray all nations shall come and worship you, O Christ, and share the feast of your Kingdom. Great and wonderful are your deeds, Lord God the Almighty. Just and true are your ways, O ruler of the nations. Who shall not revere and praise your name, O Lord? For you alone are Holy. All nations shall come and worship in your presence, for your righteous acts have been revealed. To the One who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honour and glory and might, for ever and ever Amen.

In recent months we have journeyed through Genesis and now working through Exodus. Lord help us to learn from Moses.
Stopping to look, Moses turned aside from His routine to see why the bush was not burning.
Holy Ground, God told moses to remove His sandals because he stood in the presence of the divine.
Listening to the call, God heard the cries of the suffering and called Moses to help bring freedom.

Heavenly Father, open our eyes to the burning bush in our lives. Lord, in the midst of a busy day, give us the quite heart to stop, look, and pay attention. Forgive us when we rush past sacred moments and ignore Your gentle nudges. Help us to take off our shoes of our worries and pride, knowing we stand on Holy ground. Give us the courage to answer when You call our names, and send us out to love and serve others in Your name, Lord in your mercy hear our prayer

O God, the creator and preserver of all mankind, we pray for people of every race, and in every kind of need: make your ways known on earth, your saving power among all nations. We pray for the poor, sick, the homeless, destitute, refugees, the needy, the afflicted and the weak. We particularly pray for the people of Nepal and Tibet caught in the devastation caused by the collapsed glacier, Lord we pray for help and resources for rescue and the rebuilding of bridges and networks to ensure their survival, Lord in your mercy hear our prayer.
Lord we pray especially for our families, friends, neighbours open our minds to search for you, open our eyes to see you, and open our hearts to receive your love, this day and forever more. Lord we pray for our health and well-being, praying and giving thanks for our marriages, our relationships, our family, our friends, our safety and security, for your guidance in our lives. Lord we pray all these things for your Glory, that we may all, bring pleasure to you our heavenly Father. Lord in your mercy hear our prayer.

We pray as children, pupils and students, return to school, we hope and pray they have been refreshed during the summer holidays, we pray their hope and dreams come true. We especially pray for St Mary’s school, along with all other schools, may the children be blessed through their education, we pray for their health and well-being, we pray your protection and guidance to all. Lord help all the children as they take their next steps towards a big school, please give them the courage to face new challenges and we pray they show kindness to welcome others. Guide their choices, keep them safe, and help them to always shine brightly, Lord in your mercy hear our prayer.

We commend to your fatherly goodness all that are anxious or distressed in mind or body; comfort and relieve them in their need; give them patience in their sufferings, and bring good out of their troubles. We pray for members of our congregation that are suffering at the present time.

And others known to us personally. We ask that they feel your presence and support.
Lord in your mercy Hear our prayer

O God our maker and redeemer We pray for those who mourn we remember all who have recently died and those whose anniversary of death occurs at this time
PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Clough killed in the line of duty, and other families who have lost love ones in incidents of unrest, and to all families who have lost loved ones in Nepal and Tibet

Bring comfort, dear Lord, to all those who mourn. Lord in your mercy

Father, as we gather up all of our prayers our prayers spoken today, the unspoken prayers of our hearts, our prayers of yesterday and our prayers over the weeks and months to come, our prayers for whom we love, and for those whom we pray this day and forevermore. Rejoicing in the fellowship of all your saints, we commend ourselves and all creation to your unfailing love.
Merciful Father Accept these prayers for the sake of your son Our saviour Jesus Christ
Amen

23/08/2026

Today’s sermon from Rev’d Julie Barratt
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a & Matthew 28:18-20

Last weekend my husband and I celebrated our ruby wedding anniversary. 40 years – that’s a long time! I know it’s a long time because my husband said that you can get less for murder. He has a gift for finding the right comment for every occasion. Not long ago I had a busy day full of irritating little jobs that I couldn’t get done because every time I started something the phone or the doorbell rang. I got totally exasperated and said to my husband “I need a wife.” His response? “I’ve got one of those. They’re not worth the expense.” I do not know how we have stayed married for 40 years.
My husband hasn’t got a romantic bone in his body. Never has. What he does have, as you might have guessed, is a wonderful, dry sense of humour. My sense of humour is very similar – which is just as well – and is one of the reasons we have stayed together I think. Romance is all very well and should be part of every marriage but that is not what makes a marriage last. It’s not romance that keeps a marriage alive it’s love. Not romantic, hearts and flowers love, but nitty gritty, daily life, good times and bad times love. The sort of love that puts up with “I’ve got one of those, they’re not worth the expense” comments. The sort of love that puts up with the beard trimmings in the sink, the insisting on playing Pink Floyd albums, of giving a scientific explanation for absolutely everything – which takes the romance out of absolutely everything!
It’s the same in any relationship. Make your own list. Loving someone is hard work whether it’s a spouse, a child, parents, siblings, friends and you have to work at it. Everything isn’t always sunshine and roses, sometimes its thunderstorms and thorns.
Having a child is no different. They can be cute and adorable and easy to love, and they can be little monsters. They can be the reason you get out of bed in the morning with a smile and the reason you go to bed at night exhausted. They make you proud, they make you cross. They are tremendous fun and incredible hard work. But you wouldn’t be without them, because you love them.
We all know love when we experience it and there are a lot of ways to define love.
Chrissy (6) says “Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.”
Lauren aged 4 knows she is loved. "I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones."
Sam (5) says love is "Showing respect to people and being nice to people, and when your mom tells you to do something, do it!"
Children are very good at getting to the heart of things.
Terri (4) says that "Love is what makes you smile when you're tired."
Bobby (7) says "Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen."
I don’t know how old Paul was when he defined love in his letter to the Corinthians but it’s one of the best definitions of love that you will hear, it gets to the heart of things too.
Paul says love is kind.
Elaine (5) explains "Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken."
Paul says love keeps no record of wrongs. Mary Ann (4) explains "Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day."
Paul says love perseveres. Rebecca (8) explains "When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too.”
Paul sums up love like this: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
Jack (4) sums up love like this: “Love is being nice even when you don't feel like it. "
Tommy (6) sums up it like this: "Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well."
All of these definitions are wonderful and they really describe the kind of love we need to show to others. But all of these definitions are hard to live up to. Especially Paul’s. I mean, are you always patient? Kind? Do you never envy, or boast? Are you never proud? Or rude? Or self-seeking? Do you never get angry? Do you never keep a list of the things someone has done wrong? Are you always truthful? Do you always protect? Trust? Hope? Persevere?
It’s not easy to love like that. Sometimes we manage most of it, sometimes we manage bits of it but we never achieve all of it all the time, no matter how hard we try. No matter how much we love someone. We want to love in the way Paul describes it but we don’t.
It’s not surprising that we don’t love like that because Paul is describing the ideal form of love, the one that we want to live up to but can’t. Paul is actually describing the love of God. God’s love is a perfect love and the amazing thing is that he loves us with that perfect love. God’s love for us is always kind, his love is patient. God’s love does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. God’s love does not dishonour us, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered. God’s love keeps no record of the wrong things that we do. God’s love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. God’s love always protects us, always trusts us, always hopes for us, always perseveres with us. God loves us like that all the time.
God loves us so much that he came, in the form of Jesus, to show us how to love. Jesus lived a life of love, showing us how to love others in the way he lived and interacted with people. He showed us what love looked like; to the point of dying for us on the cross so that we could receive the love of God fully and completely. So that each one of us can have a personal, one to one relationship with God himself. Forever.
Jesus said: “Come, follow me.” The best way to learn that sort of love is to follow Jesus and the best way to follow Jesus is to become a member of the church. Chelsey and Connor have shown their love for Cody by bringing him here today to be baptised and become part of this church.
The Church is not a building, it’s a group of people. People who have answered Jesus’ call to follow him. People who are not perfect, who do not get everything right but who are doing their best to learn how to follow Jesus and how to love each other like God loves us. Church is the family of God and we have been privileged to welcome Cody into our family today and we will do our best to love him, and his parents, and his family and friends as best we can. And we will do our best to show him and teach him about following Jesus and the love of God as we walk together answering Jesus’ call to follow him.
Amen

23/08/2026

Intercession Prayers – 23 August 2026 from Paula
Loving Father,
Thank you for bringing us together on such a joyful day . Help us to rest in your love, a love that is patient, kind, and never gives up on us. Teach us to share that love with the people we meet this week.
Jesus, you promised to be with us always. Help us to remember that you walk with us in every place we go and in everything we do.

Baptism
Father God,
We pray for the baptism that took place today. We give thanks for this new member of God’s family. Bless the whole family with your love and peace. May they grow in faith, hope & joy. Help us, as a church, to support them with kindness and prayer.

The Church
Father,
We pray for St Mary’s and for everyone who worships here. Bless Samuel, Julie, Peter and Jean as they lead us. Give them wisdom, patience and your steady love.
We pray for Christians around the world, especially those who are suffering or living in danger. Keep them safe and remind them that Jesus is with them just as he is with us.

The World
Father God,
We pray for people affected by the fires and drought this summer here in England and across Europe. Bring comfort, help and new hope. Thank you for the rain this week and we pray it continues to refresh dry places.
We pray for peace in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan. For all who have been hurt or frightened by recent violence. Give leaders wisdom and compassion so that peace talks can begin again.
We pray for the people in the Democratic Republic of Congo where Ebola is still spreading. Protect doctors, nurses and helpers and bring healing in Jesus’ name.

Our Community
Father God,
We pray for our young people who received their GCSE results this week. Thank you for those who are celebrating. Give peace and confidence to those who feel unsure or disappointed. Show each of them the right next step.
We pray for our teachers and schools, especially St Mary’s School, as they get ready for the new term. Give them rest, energy and joy in their work.
Father, We pray for our town and valley. Thank you for all the groups and centres that help people in Rossendale. Guide those who need support to places where they can find help and friendship. Help us at St Mary’s to show Jesus’ love in simple, everyday ways.

The Sick and Bereaved
Father,
We pray for people who are ill today. Bring healing, strength and peace. Be close to those waiting for test results or starting treatment. Bless doctors, nurses, carers and families who look after them.
We pray for anyone who is grieving. Hold them gently and give them strength and courage for each day. Let them know that they are loved by you.

Merciful Father,
accept these prayers for the sake of your Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Amen.

16/08/2026

Sunday Teaching 16-08-26 Gen 45:1-15/Matt 15:21-28 from Jay
CONTEXT
Genesis 45:1–15 and Matthew 15:21-28 the context for
these two readings is that both stories tell us of 3
things. Unexpected Grace, Persistence, and the
Inclusion of outsiders.
Gen 45: - Joseph is now the right-hand man to
Pharoah. He literally makes all the decisions that keep
the Egyptians from starving to death. However, to get
where was He had undergone the three things
mentioned in the Context.
Undeserved Grace, Persistence and inclusion.
The same thing had happened to the Syrophoenician
Woman. Who was doing everything thing she knew to
get her daughter well.
Both of these characters had to progress through their
situations. Joseph is given dreams that indicate that He
will be not only be at the Head of the Family. But the
family will serve Him and be thankful for it.
The Syrophoenician Woman has no doubt been down
every avenue open to her to try to help her daughter
get well.
Both Joseph and the Syrophoenician Woman had
extremely difficult days that they endured. Joseph
should have been dead a long time ago only rescued by
Reuben. If not, He should surely have undergone
beating after beating whilst a slave or in prison. Yet we
don't hear anything about this and in fact Joseph
prospers, Undeserved Grace is given to Him.
The Syrophoenician Women's life must have been hell.
She was helpless in being able to cause her daughter to
be well. Day after Day She watches as her beautiful
offspring gets weaker and weaker, to the point that
reality sets in and She knows that her daughter is going
to die.
What kept the Two of them going, well for Joseph it
was the dreams that God had given Him when He was
still at Home. His relationship with God the Father and
His understanding that they had to have a positive
outcome. His persistence in believing this ensured that
He would triumph in the end. Had He only believed
what He could see, the outcome would have been very
different. But he saw what He believed and didn't
allow anything to get in the way of that.
The Syrophoenician Women's persistence in looking for
some sort of cure for her daughter finally paid off. She
was desperate and would have probably given Her own
life to save Her daughter. But she kept looking and
heard of Jesus and travelled a very long way to get to
him. She found Him and called Him "Son of David" this
almost cost her daughter Her life. Jesus tells Her He
can't heal her daughter because She does not have a
covenant with God. She understands and calls Him
Lord her creator.
They are both accepted into kingdoms because of their
faith. Jesus remembers that the Gentiles will be invited
into His Kingdom and so an outsider is admitted and a
child is healed.
Joseph' dreams are eventually starting to manifest and
Joseph is admitted into the Egyptian Empire a foreigner
is given the same equality as the Egyptians. Becomes
Second in Command over all of Egypt.
If we know Jesus as our Personal Saviour, then we are
granted Undeserved Grace. No matter what we do or
think on a daily basis, whether it is positive or negative;
Undeserved Grace is poured out upon us. As we live
our lives circumstances, problems, difficulties come our
way. However, we handle them? Whether we glorify
Our Saviour or put ourselves first. Undeserved grace is
poured out on us by the Holy Spirit. But our decisions
do have a result in that Romans 6:16 tells us, "Don’t
you know that when you offer yourselves to someone
as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you
obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to
death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?"
But with the Holy Spirit we are guided and are able to
glorify our God. As we see from the two stories the
decisions we make are not always easy. However, with
God's undeserving Grace we can Glorify His Name.
So, we need to remember that we have been included
into God's kingdom because of our saviour's sacrifice,
and we need to be persistent in our Faith and see what
we believe and ensure we glorify our Saviour and be
thankful for the undeserving Grace that we have every
single day.
NOW THATS WHAT I CALL REALLY GOOD NEWS