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May grace and peace be ours in abundance this day, as we celebrate the lives and the accomplishments of the Loyalsock Township graduating class of 2018. This is an occasion to praise God, to listen to God's word, to hear the stories of teachers and students' days on campus, and to pray for them as they finish this part of their journey and begin new adventures. As the people of God have always done, we bring our emotions and our wishes to the Almighty Creator who made us and loves us. Let us then turn to God in prayer.
The Lord Almighty called the prophet Jeremiah, saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you";
Baccalaureate
We thank you, Creator God, for the lives of these students, each known and loved even before they were born. We praise you that they were consecrated by you to purposes we could not imagine so many years ago.
God created all people in the image of the Divine, in the image of God women and men were made by God's own hand.
We recognize these students as your children, bearing your image. Their compassion and their creativity mark them as men and women of God, sharing their Creator's likeness.The philosopher reminds us that for everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
We thank you that you have brought us to this day of rejoicing: a day to remember their journey, a day to pause and look both to the past and to the future.
Mordecai saw God's potential in his adopted daughter and told her, "Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this.
"We know that you have great things in store for each student. We cannot imagine the futures to which you are calling them, but we are confident in your ability to use every gift in your own time and for the purposes of your Kingdom.God instructed the Israelites to share the story of their salvation, saying, "It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt." Their celebration served as a sign on the hand and as a reminder on the forehead, so that the teaching of the Lord may be on every lip; for with a strong hand the Lord brought them out of Egypt.
Let this baccalaureate remind us of your strength, O God, in bringing these people of faith through trial and difficulty. Let it be a sign of your eternal goodness and our unending gratitude.Jesus told his disciples, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life?
"From this day forward, loving Lord, we ask that you strengthen each one here to follow you, in whatever path may best serve you. Guide these men and women as they seek to find their lives by losing them in you.Merciful and gracious God, hear our prayers for these your children, and may this time of remembrance be a blessing to each one here. All this we pray in the name of the Christ, our hope and our Savior. Amen.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
Encouragement from God...
but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
“For thus says the Lord: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place.
Jeremiah
When you’ve realized what it is like to live without me I will bring you to a place of realization, and a new hope.
1. I know what I’m doing
1. I know what I’m doing (v. 11)
To take care of you
Not to abandon you
Give you a future
2. I will Listen (v.12)
When you call on me
When you come to me
When you pray to me
3. I will reveal myself (v. 13)
When you get serious (wholeheartedly, all in) about me
When you want me more than anything
You won’t be disappointed
4. Things will turn around (v.14)
When I’m found
I’ll bring you back (captivity)
I promise I will do what I say.
Things will be better than before.
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
phil
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Big IDEA
God is doing everything He can to get our attention. He has never left our side.
So What?
I will commit to starting every day out in prayer and the reading of scripture in order to remind myself, God you have this and I do not.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.