SEASONS: PRAYER AND READING FOR THE SEVENTH DAY OF HANUKKAH

(Prayer and reading taken from "A Family Guide To Biblical Holidays" by Robin Sampson and Linda Pierce.  I use these for lighting the Menorah every year.)

PRAYER:

Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the Universe who wrought miracles for our fathers in days of old, for this season.

READING:

If Christ Is Your Light You Are No Longer In The Darkness of This World

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:  (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Providing what is acceptable unto The Lord.  And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.  (Eph. 5:8-11)

But ye brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness.  Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.  (I Thess. 5:4-6)

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9)

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.  For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.  But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light; for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.  Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.  See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise (Eph. 5:11-15).

This then is the message that we have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that God is light and in him is no darkness at all.  If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth; but if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.  If we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.  If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.