Read Luke 1: 68-79
God has placed us here in this time and in this place for a reason. A reason that will bring Him glory, a reason that will honor Him, will lift up His name. The reason will look different for all of us. For the Hebrew people it was to write a story for the moment of Christ’s birth. Their journey was pointing toward His coming just as John the Baptist was a prophet of the most high.
Along their journey there was resistance due to fear or a lack of faith in God’s plan. Sometimes we have that same fear. The fear that makes us freeze in our tracks or go to what we know is comfortable. In the passage I just read in verse 74 it says
“to rescue us from the hand of our enemies,
and to enable us to serve him without fear”
I want us to rest in the promise that we have been rescued, which frees us up, to serve without fear.
Now this may seem like another opportunity to pray silently about what fears we have, but I want to turn it on its head and for your to pray as a group that we as a community may know that we are rescued and are now free from fear, that we can serve the Lord, Creator, God, and give glory to Him.
Focus on 3 things:
1. The growth of this community(Grace) in the Lord
2. The obedience to serve, to pursue our “reason” without fear
3. For those we know who are still in darkness, may we be a light to them and may they see Jesus through us
