Advent Devotions Thursday, Dec. 6th Our Savior Lutheran Church, Gatlinburg, TN

Philippians 1:3-11

Paul’s Prayer for the Philippians

³ I thank my God every time I remember you, ⁴ constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you,⁵ because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day until now. ⁶ I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ. ⁷ It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because you hold me in your heart,^[a] for all of you share in God’s grace^[b] with me, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. ⁸ For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the compassion of Christ Jesus. ⁹ And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight ¹⁰ to help you to determine what is best, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, ¹¹ having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.

Paul prayed that the Philippians love would “overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight” to help them determine what is best for them.  What do you pray God does in your life?  Is it more spiritual in nature --- or more earthly?

Thank you to Pastor Jim Kroninger of Our Savior Lutheran Church for providing the content for the devotions.  Learn more about us at our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/oslc.gatlinburg

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We worship every Sunday at 10 :30 am with Sunday School at 9:15 am.  Throughout the Advent Season we welcome you to Thursday evening services.  We hold a supper welcome to all at 5:30 and worship at 6:30.

Our church will be performing a Christmas Music Program at 1:30 on Sunday, December 9th all are welcome to attend!

O Come  O Come Emmanuel!