Advent Calendar 2025 and Prayer Diary
Then the LORD took Abram outside and said, “Look at the sky and see if you can count the stars. That’s how many descendants you will have.” Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD was pleased with him. Genesis 15 v5-6.
Abraham trusted God and so he was able to do what God wanted. We also please God when we have that same faith in Him that leads us to do what God wants.
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Daily Prayer: God Almighty, give us faith like Abraham, to trust in your promises and to serve and obey you. In the name of Jesus Christ your beloved Son who you gave for us.
All-Age Activity: Quiz based on the Bible reading below.
Only one answer is correct for each question. Choose A or B or C or D.
(Answers will be given tomorrow – Dec 3rd)
1 How did people worship God in those days?
(A) They roasted some meat on a fire on top of a pile of big stones.
(B) They sang hymns and psalms.
(C) They tried to kill their enemies.
(D) They went to church and listened to a preacher.
2 What was the name of Abraham’s son?
(A) Isaac. (B) Isaiah. (C) Eye sack. (D) Zack.
3 Where did Abraham and his son go on their journey?
(A) From Jerusalem to Jericho.
(B) From Beersheba to Moriah.
(C) From Ur to Haran.
(D) From Egypt to Sinai.
4 Did anyone else travel with Abraham and his son on their journey?
(A) No, they went alone.
(B) Sarah and her two servants.
(C) Only two camels.
(D) Two servants and a donkey.
5 What did Abraham and his son carry?
(A) Knife and fork and spoon.
(B) Fire and wood and a knife.
(C) Lamb and wood and fire.
(D) Lamb and knife and wood.
6 What did Abraham use for a sacrifice to God?
(A) His son. (B) A lamb. (C) A ram. (D) A donkey.
7 Did God really want Abraham to kill his son?
(A) Yes at first, but He changed His mind later.
(B) No. He doesn’t want people to kill other people.
(C) Yes, but He knew Abraham wouldn’t agree to do it.
(D) Not at that time, but maybe later when Isaac got a bit older.
8 What did Abraham call that place?
(A) The Lord will promise.
(B) The Lord will bless.
(C) The Lord will punish.
(D) The Lord will provide.
9 How many descendants did God promise that Abraham would have?
(A) More than the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore.
(B) About fifty or twenty or even only ten.
(C) As many as the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea.
(D) More than the people in the cities of his enemies.
10 How would future people of all nations be blessed?
(A) By taking the cities of their enemies.
(B) Through the descendants of Abraham.
(C) By being many like the stars and the sand.
(D) Through the offering of burnt sacrifices.
Daily Bible reading: Genesis 22 v1-19
1 Some years later God decided to test Abraham, so he spoke to him.
Abraham answered, “Here I am, LORD.”
2 The LORD said, “Go get Isaac, your only son, the one you dearly love! Take him to the land of Moriah, and I will show you a mountain where you must sacrifice him to me on the fires of an altar.” 3 So Abraham got up early the next morning and chopped wood for the fire. He put a saddle on his donkey and left with Isaac and two servants for the place where God had told him to go.
4 Three days later Abraham looked off in the distance and saw the place. 5 He told his servants, “Stay here with the donkey, while my son and I go over there to worship. We will come back.”
6 Abraham put the wood on Isaac’s shoulder, but he carried the hot coals and the knife. As the two of them walked along, 7-8 Isaac said, “Father, we have the coals and the wood, but where is the lamb for the sacrifice?”
“My son,” Abraham answered, “God will provide the lamb.”
The two of them walked on, and 9 when they reached the place that God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and placed the wood on it. Next, he tied up his son and put him on the wood. 10 He then took the knife and got ready to kill his son. 11 But the LORD’S angel shouted from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Here I am!” he answered.
12 “Don’t hurt the boy or harm him in any way!” the angel said. “Now I know that you truly obey God, because you were willing to offer him your only son.”
13 Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in the bushes. So he took the ram and sacrificed it in place of his son.
14 Abraham named that place “The LORD Will Provide.” And even now people say, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
15 The LORD’S angel called out from heaven a second time:
16 You were willing to offer the LORD your only son, and so he makes you this solemn promise, 17 “I will bless you and give you such a large family, that someday your descendants will be more numerous than the stars in the sky or the grains of sand along the beach. They will defeat their enemies and take over the cities where their enemies live. 18 You have obeyed me, and so you and your descendants will be a blessing to all nations on earth.”
19 Abraham and Isaac went back to the servants who had come with him, and they returned to Abraham’s home in Beersheba.
Answers to yesterday’s activity (Dec 1st): F B D A E C
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