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Hymn: Eternal Lord of Love Behold Your Church (Old 124th)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajz_hJbS8zI

Short Documentary on Handel's Messiah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbcK4Uw3bHU

Story behind Handel's Messiah - CBN.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOFAI7qs5Bk

Christmas Food Court Flash Mob, Hallelujah Chorus - Must See!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE

Matthew 12:1-8 New King James Version
1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!” 3 But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: 4 how he entered the house of God and ate the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? 5 Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple [a]profane the Sabbath, and are blameless? 6 Yet I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the temple. 7 But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. 8 For the Son of Man is Lord [b]even of the Sabbath.”
     Jesus, please teach us how to keep the Sabbath.

Matthew 12:9-15 New King James Version
9 Now when He had departed from there, He went into their synagogue. 10 And behold, there was a man who had a withered hand. And they asked Him, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—that they might accuse Him. 11 Then He said to them, “What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out? 12 Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” 13 Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and it was restored as whole as the other. 14 Then the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him. 15 But when Jesus knew it, He withdrew from there. And great [a]multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all.
     Holy Spirit, help us repent of harboring wrath as the Pharisees did.

Lamentations 3:22-24 New King James Version
22 Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. 24 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I hope in Him!”
     Father, I have found a goodly portion in you.

A Word Received: Look to me for comfort in the dark times. I Am the light of the world.

Albany Intercessor