Advent Calendar 2025 and Prayer Diary
Angels
All of you mighty angels, who obey God’s commands,
come and praise your LORD! Psalm 103 v20.
‘Thousands only live to bless Thee and confess Thee Lord of might.’
‘Ye who sang creations story, now proclaim Messiah’s birth.’
Listen and sing along (they open in YouTube)
Angel voices, ever singing.
Angels from the realms of glory.
Daily Prayer:
Let’s pray for our Choirs and Praise and Worship Teams, giving thanks.
Today pray also for the members and office bearers of the Manyano and W.A. and thank God for all that they do in the community.
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[Tap here] Daily Bible reading: Luke 2 v8-21
Daily Bible reading: Luke 2 v8-21
8 That night in the fields near Bethlehem some shepherds were guarding their sheep. 9 All at once an angel came down to them from the Lord, and the brightness of the LORD’S glory flashed around them. The shepherds were frightened. 10 But the angel said, “Don’t be afraid! I have good news for you, which will make everyone happy. 11 This very day in King David’s hometown a Saviour was born for you. He is Christ the Lord. 12 You will know who he is, because you will find him dressed in baby clothes and lying on a bed of hay.”
13 Suddenly many other angels came down from heaven and joined in praising God. They said:
14 “Praise God in heaven!
Peace on earth to everyone who pleases God.”
15 After the angels had left and gone back to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see what the Lord has told us about.” 16 They hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and they saw the baby lying on a bed of hay.
17 When the shepherds saw Jesus, they told his parents what the angel had said about him. 18 Everyone listened and was surprised. 19 But Mary kept thinking about all this and wondering what it meant.
20 As the shepherds returned to their sheep, they were praising God and saying wonderful things about him. Everything they had seen and heard was just as the angel had said.
21 Eight days later Jesus’ parents did for him what the Law of Moses commands. And they named him Jesus, just as the angel had told Mary when he promised she would have a baby.
All-Age Activity: Wordsearch: People Who Saw Angels (or heard them in a dream)
Find all the words given in the list. They can go across left or right, up, down or even diagonally.
(Answers will be given tomorrow – Dec 10th)
ABRAHAM GIDEON ELIJAH DANIEL MARY ZECHARIAH SHEPHERDS MOSES PHILIP PETER JOHN JOSEPH WISEMEN CORNELIUS JESUS
Answers to yesterday’s (Dec 8th) activity:
| C | 13 After the wise men had gone, an angel from the Lord |
| G | appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up! Hurry and take |
| E | the child and his mother to Egypt! Stay there until I tell you to return, |
| B | because Herod is looking for the child and wants to kill him.” |
| F | 14 That night, Joseph got up and took his wife and the child to Egypt, |
| D | 15 where they stayed until Herod died. So the LORD’S promise came true, |
| A | just as the prophet had said, “I called my son out of Egypt.” |
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