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Renewing of a Covenant with God
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Behold, the tabernacle of God is with us and he will dwell with us and we shall be his people.
And God himself will be with us and be our God.
Our help is in the name of the Lord our God, Who made heaven and earth.
Our salvation is in the Lord Jesus Christ,
Who died for our sins and rose for our justification.
Our confidence is in the Holy Spirit, Who enables us to become God's children.
The Lord reigns!
Let the earth rejoice.
Our God reigns!
We shall be glad and wait for his word.

Hymn 959

Sing to the great Jehovah's praise;
All praise to him belongs; Who kindly lengthens out our days Demands our choicest songs.

His providence hath brought us through
Another various year;
We all with vows and anthems new Before our God appear.

Father, thy mercies past we own;
Thy still continued care;
To thee presenting, through thy Son, Whate'er we have or are.

Our lips and lives shall gladly show
The wonders of thy love,
While on in Jesu's steps we go To see thy face above.

Our residue of days or hours
Thine, wholly thine, shall be; And all our consecrated powers A sacrifice to thee.

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ALMIGHTY GOD, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets
are hid:
Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, that we may
perfectly love you and worthily magnify your holy name; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

DEARLY BELOVED, the Christian life, to which we are called, is a life in Christ, redeemed from sin by him
and consecrated to God through him. We have entered into this new life by admission into that new
Covenant of which Christ is Mediator and which he sealed with his own blood. The Covenant has two
sides: On the one side is the promise which God has made to fulfil in and through us all that he

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