daily reading 49.5 (Philippians 2:28–30)

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024


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 thy 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 heaven 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.

Philippians 2:28–30

  • For this reason, I am very eager to send him so that you may rejoice again when you see him and I may be less anxious.
  • 29 Therefore, welcome him in the Lord with great joy and hold people like him in honor, 30  because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up what was lacking in your ministry to me.
helpful notes on Philippians 2:28–30

 


For yourself pray

  • That in Christ God makes you less anxious

For others pray

  • That God upholds missionaries and their families who are going far away on your behalf

A song to listen to and ponder, as time allows

  • Psalm 144 (YouTube, soloist with guitar, "My Refuge and My Shield")

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