Make Ready a People

But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John . . . He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit . . . and he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God . . . to make ready a people prepared for the Lord." (Luke 1:13, 15-17 NKJV)

"Lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest." (John 4:35 NKJV)

Day 14 of 25 Days of Christmas.  As we celebrate Jesus' first coming, we need to remember his second coming and our responsibility to prepare a people for him - a people who hunger after God more than anything else.

Pray today for revival and renewal on our campus, for believers to be energized by the Holy Spirit to live and proclaim the Gospel, for the lost to see Jesus in us and be inspired to submit to the Lord and be transformed into the sons and daughters of God.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness. "Prepare the way of the Lord." (Matthew 3:3 NKJV)