Maranatha foretold

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Praying Maranatha: Come, O Lord. 1Cor16:22, Rev22:7, 12


Hymn- 
Come, Thou Fount

1. Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,

Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;

Streams of mercy, never ceasing,

Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
Mount of Thy redeeming love.

2. O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.

From last time we saw that the word Maranatha means “the Lord is coming” or “come, O Lord” and this word came out of the situation that faced the believers of old. It was an expression of assurance and hope for the believers of old.

 Also, Maranatha was not an afterthought, but part of God pre-plan before the foundation of the world Maranatha foretold in:

 1. Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. (God became flesh and dwelt amongst men.
John 1:14, John 3:16).

 Isaiah 9:6-7 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

 Isa 40:1-3 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusa-
lem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins. 3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

 2. Isaiah 53

 3. Zechariah
Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

 4. Malachi
Malachi 4:2, 5 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.

 5. Matthew
Matthew 24.

 6. John
John 14:28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. John16:16
16A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.

 7. Acts
Acts1:11. Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

 8. Thessalonians
1Thess4:16-17 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

 9. Revelation
Rev22:7,12
Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.


Prayer points:

Isaiah 25:1

  • Praise God for His counsel are faithfulness and true.
  • Praise God for the comfort He is bringing to His church.
  • Praise God for Immanuel, God with us.
  • Praise God for the Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace who has come to some of us and will yet come to many.
  • Praise God for when He comes the government of my life, nations, the church shall be upon his shoulder.
  • The increase of his government and peace there shall be no end.
  • Praise God that when He comes He will order lives, nations, and establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever.
  • The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this just as He did in the temple.

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