HOPE Advent week 1

GOOD MORNING!  Have that warm drink in your hand?!  I DO!  So let's have some "Coffee Time with a Dear Friend!"

I hope that you have enjoyed our meetings together.  My HOPE is to post every Monday.....a special coffee time to start off your week!
So check-in every Monday morning and IF I am on task you should find something new to read.

For the next 4 weeks leading up to Christmas I have decided to do Advent.  I am actually sharing the one that I have put together that we do at our church.  Each Sunday a new candle is lit. Just a thought....if you have an advent wreath...a candle holder with 4 or 5 holes....you can actually light your candle each week as we do this together! (3 purple candles, one pink and one Christ Candle, white or we use a large pillar candle with red stripes)

 First of all IF Advent is new to you let me give a definition:

ad·vent

noun

noun: advent; plural noun: advents

the arrival of a notable person, thing, or event

1. "the advent of television"

   
   

   synonyms:

   arrival, appearance, emergence, materialization, occurrence, dawn, birth, rise, development; More approach, coming "the advent of a new school year"

   • the first season of the Christian church year, leading up to Christmas and including the four preceding Sundays.

     noun: Advent
   • Christian Theology

     the coming or second coming of Christ.

     noun: Advent

SO it is the anticipation of something, SOME ONE great!  Our Savior and King!  It is also to help us prepare our hearts for the Christmas Season, to make sure our focus is on WHY we celebrate
Christmas.

                        Hope (11/27/2016)

                        LIGHT THE FIRST PURPLE CANDLE

  “We light this candle to represent HOPE. The prophecy of HOPE for a Savior to come.

Isaiah 9:6-7 

“For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Of the greatness of his government and peace
there will be no end.
He will reign on David’s throne
and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
with justice and righteousness
from that time on and forever.
The zeal of the Lord Almighty
will accomplish this.”

HOPE in the birth of a child .   

Luke  1:31-33

“You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. ³² He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, ³³ and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”

We have the HOPE of Christ’s coming again.

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

¹⁶ For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

                      We HOPE for the Savior’s love to be spread through-out the world.

                        Prayer

Heavenly Father we thank you for the hope that we have in You.  You were, are and will be forever the HOPE of the world! May all who are here place their hope in You and You alone. Amen