Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you,
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’”
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh
that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,
But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods. For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, “The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.” So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
With weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
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