The text for this week is Matthew 2:1-12, which is the underlying text for David’s song Lead Me On. We will be looking at many of the texts alluded to in this song. Our worship theme will be “We Three Kings” and our visual theme will be winter nights, with stars!
Here is the link to the YouTube playlist: 171231 Heart Prep
Prelude:
There’s a Song in the Air
Worship:
Good Christian Men Rejoice – Hymn #151
I Wonder as I Wander – Hymn #139
What Child is This? – Hymn #137
We Three Kings – Hymn #166
We Three Kings – Piano Guys
Offertory:
Lead Me On
Benediction
Wandering Pilgrim – Twila Paris
Bonus: New Lyric Video from Josh Garrels
May You Find a Light
Here is the text of the song and the Scriptures we’ll associate with each verse:
Lead Me On
Star light, star bright, illumining more than the night
Star beam with two-edged gleam piercing my soul with your light
The heavens were telling, but now they are yelling, announcing a Jewish Knight
Who was born to deliver and empty His quiver to rescue the Lady in white
Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
Psalm 45:3-4, 13-15 Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your splendor and majesty! 4In your majesty ride out victoriously for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness; let your right hand teach you awesome deeds! . . . 13All glorious is the princess in her chamber, with robes interwoven with gold. 14In many-colored robes she is led to the king, with her virgin companions following behind her. 15With joy and gladness they are led along as they enter the palace of the king.
Lead me on, lead me on bright Morning Star
Draw me nearer, ever nearer to where You are
Beckoning glory, glistening story speak to my heart
Lead me on, lead me home to where You are
Revelation 22:16 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”
John 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
John 16:13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
2 Peter 1:19 And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,
Star light, so bright, how can You be mindful of man?
Dark night resisting what’s right, lost in a pagan land
Bright heavenly spark that points to the Ark, far through the desert sand
From wonderstruck gazing, I hit the trail blazing and faithfully heed Your command
Isaiah 8:20-9:2 To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. 21They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward. 22And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness. 9:1But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.
John 3:19-20 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
John 8:12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Exodus 13:21-22 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. 22The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.
Matthew 4:18-20 While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 19And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” 20Immediately they left their nets and followed him.
Luke 9:23 And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
1 Peter 2:21 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
Lead me on, lead me on bright Morning Star
Draw me nearer, ever nearer to where You are
Beckoning glory, glistening story speak to my heart
Lead me on, lead me home to where You are
Revelation 7:17 For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
Isaiah 49:8-10 Thus says the Lord: “In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages, 9saying to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ to those who are in darkness, ‘Appear.’ They shall feed along the ways; on all bare heights shall be their pasture; 10they shall not hunger or thirst, neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them, for he who has pity on them will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them.
John 14:1-3 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Isaiah 42:16 And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.