Today's Prayer Prompts 12-19-2014

  • Dec 19, 2014
  • Bob Willhite
  • Category: Prayer Alerts

Ladies and Gentlemen, the scriptural reference for today’s songs and hymns is  Isaiah 9:6-7

For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His Shoulder. And His Name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and Peace there will be no end; upon the throne of David and over His Kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

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Video LINK = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-61gjgy9GiE

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LINK = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_(Handel)

The music for Messiah was completed in 24 days of swift composition. Having received Jennens's text sometime after 10 July 1741, Handel began work on it on 22 August. His records show that he had completed Part I in outline by 28 August, Part II by 6 September and Part III by 12 September, followed by two days of "filling up" to produce the finished work on 14 September. The autograph score's 259 pages show some signs of haste such as blots, scratchings-out, unfilled bars and other uncorrected errors, but according to the music scholar Richard Luckett the number of errors is remarkably small in a document of this length.

At the end of his manuscript Handel wrote the letters "SDG"—Soli Deo Gloria, "To God alone the Glory". This inscription, taken with the speed of composition, has encouraged belief in the apocryphal story that Handel wrote the music in a fervour of divine inspiration in which, as he wrote the "Hallelujah" chorus, "he saw all Heaven before him".

Lord, may we see ALL of HEAVEN open before us this Christmas Season! 

Amen and Amen!

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