An Orderly Account – Prayerful Alertness
How do you get ready? How do you stay ready?
How do you get ready? How do you stay ready?
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
As He said these things, he called out “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.
Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith
For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’?
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.