Revelation 21, 365 DAYS OF LOVE #233: PRAYER & ENCOURAGEMENT

PASSAGE: The New Jerusalem

MEMORY VERSE: "Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you" Colossians 3:13

NOTES: (v.1) "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband."
(v.3) "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
(v.6) "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son." <Overcome" by the Desperation Band as I read this. (Watch their story behind the song. It should be in the related links to the song above). How fitting to be reading this passage, given the context that the song was written in! This passaage is so pretty..I can't even begin to imagine how it will be when "the dwelling of God is with men." To me, it'd sound something like Phil Whickham's song "Cielo"
(v.10) "And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very previous jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. It had a great, high wall with twelve gates and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of teh twelve tribes of Israel."
(v.22) "I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp."
(v.27) "Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful, deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life."

ACT OF LOVE: Today, prayed for multiple things! (You can see the full list on the new "Prayer Request" sidebar to your right! hehe). Also, sent a mass fb message to the eManual group to randomly encourage fellow hsf-ers to continue seeking God!
*I'll be posting up updated prayer requests on the sidebar so you can pray too! Links included (most of the time)