SEASONS CELEBRATING A CHRISTIAN HANUKKAH IN 2016 BLESSINGS AND MEDITATIONS FOR THE 6TH DAY

PRAYERS:

Blessed art thou O Lord Our God, King of The Universe Who has given to us holidays, customs, and seasons for gladness. For the glory of The Lord Yeshua, Our Messiah, The Light Of The World.

Blessed art Thou, Lord Our God, Master of the Universe, Who performed miracles for our fathers in those days at this time.

We kindle these lights to commemorate the wonders and the miracles and the saving acts that You have performed for our forefathers, in those days at this time, by Your Holy Priests.  And all throughout the eight days of Hanukkah, these lights are holy and we are not permitted to make use of them, but only to behold them, in order to offer thanks and praise to Your great Name, for Your miracles, for Your wonder, and for Your salvation.

MEDITATION:

Acts 26:12-18:   “On one of these journeys I was going to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests. About noon, King Agrippa, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me and my companions.  We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

 “Then I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’

“ ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied. ‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me.  I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them  to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

(Comments by Sheila Gail Landgraf)

Paul saw the light.  

He had previously been deceived and God in a very dramatic way made sure that Paul understood.  He sent Jesus, the light of the world to proclaim the gospel to the Apostle Paul.  

And Jesus commissioned Paul, just as he commissions us; to be a servant and to be a witness of all he had seen of God.  He sent Paul to the Gentiles to open their eyes!  God wanted them to turn from darkness to light.  God wanted them to walk away from the power of Satan and turn toward Him and worship Him alone.  

God sent Jesus to make forgiveness for walking away from the light possible. 

The light has come!  The light sanctifies us. 

Are you sharing your light with the world?