“Zion Signal” – a call to the faithful wherever they are scattered.
Order of Worship
“Let all things be done decently and in order.”
– 1 Corinthians 14:40
Welcome & Call to Worship
Psalm 104:24-35
The Spirit Creates and Renews
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O Lord, what a variety of things you have made!
In wisdom you have made them all.
The earth is full of your creatures.
25
Here is the ocean, vast and wide,
teeming with life of every kind,
both large and small.
26
See the ships sailing along,
and Leviathan, which you made to play in the sea.
27
They all depend on you
to give them food as they need it.
28
When you supply it, they gather it.
You open your hand to feed them,
and they are richly satisfied.
29
But if you turn away from them, they panic.
When you take away their breath,
they die and turn again to dust.
30
When you give them your breath, life is created,
and you renew the face of the earth.
31
May the glory of the Lord continue forever!
The Lord takes pleasure in all he has made!
32
The earth trembles at his glance;
the mountains smoke at his touch.
33
I will sing to the Lord as long as I live.
I will praise my God to my last breath!
34
May all my thoughts be pleasing to him,
for I rejoice in the Lord.
35
Let all sinners vanish from the face of the earth;
let the wicked disappear forever.
Let all that I am praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord!
Scripture Reading
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Rom. 8:12-17, 26-27
The Spirit Affirms Our Adoption
12 Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. 13 For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
15 So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.” 16 For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children. 17 And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.
26 And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. 27 And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.
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Bereshit (Genesis) Chapter 44
31 when he sees that the lad is not there, he will die: your servants will have brought your servant our father’s white-haired head down to the grave in grief.
32 I am speaking, rather than one of my other brothers, because I, your servant, guaranteed to return the lad to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, I will have sinned against my father for all time.’
33 So now, please let me, your servant, remain as a slave to my lord in place of the lad, and let the lad go back up to Canaan with his brothers.
34 For how can I go up there to my father if the lad is not with me? Let me not be forced to witness the calamity that would befall my father!”
Bereshit (Genesis) Chapter 45
1 Joseph could not bear to have his brothers shamed in the presence of all the people standing around him. So he exclaimed, “Have everyone leave my presence!” Thus, no man was left standing near Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.
2 He broke out into loud weeping; the Egyptians heard it, and word spread until the members of Pharaoh’s household heard about it, as well.
Prayer of the People
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Prayer of the People ~
Responsive prayer and intercession for our community, nation, and world.
The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth;
And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord:
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead, and buried.
The third day He rose from the dead;
He ascended into heaven,
and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Church Universal,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.Amen.
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Benediction
May the Spirit break the slave-fear in your chest.
May your prayers be honest enough to be wordless.
May your life be led—not pushed.
May the God who knows all hearts hear what you cannot say.
And may you enter the new year not as a worker begging for worth—
but as a child calling Abba, with clean hands, a steady mind, and a repaired heart.
Amen — Ashe — So Be It.
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