The year of the Lord’s favor
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Foreword
Welcome into the year 2025! This is a year in which we believe the children of God will be able to proclaim and experience the Lord’s favor. For this reason, we want to invite you to start the year by completing this 7-day devotional with us, in which we study Jesus’ words in Luke 4:18-19: “The Spirit of the Lord… Read More..
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Day 1: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He has anointed me…”
When Jesus came to His hometown Nazareth (Luke 4:16), He stood up in the synagogue reading from Isaiah the prophet, announcing to the Jews the mantle of the ministry that had been given to Him (Luke 4:21). The proclamation “the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He has anointed me” was a fulfilled prophecy of more than 300… Read More..
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Day 2: “…to preach the good news to the poor…”
In yesterday’s devotional we showed that our repentance creates a space for the Spirit to come and dwell in us, and through this, we have access to the Holy Spirit as Jesus had, which gives us the anointing to do good work. In today’s devotional, Day 2, we will see that one of the actions the Spirit anoints us to… Read More..
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Day 3: “He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted…”
On Day 3, we want to look into how the Holy Spirit gives us the authority to heal the brokenhearted. These are the questions that will guide us in this study: The brokenhearted are those who are deeply afflicted, or whose hearts have been “broken” by external calamities, or even by the sense of their own sinfulness (Barnes’ Notes on… Read More..
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Day 4: “…to proclaim liberty to the captives…”
In Day 4 we continue to look at how the Holy Spirit within us anoints us to godly actions. This section is about proclaiming liberty to the captives. The key questions to be answered in this section are the following: Jesus came to set the captives free. This was one of the promises of the coming Messiah, which Isaiah the… Read More..
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Day 5: “…and recovery of sight to the blind.”
In the previous days we looked at how the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives leads us to preach the good news, heal broken hearts, and set the captives free. Today we want to focus on how His presence can lead us to aid in the recovery of sight to the blind. Our guiding questions for today’s devotional… Read More..
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Day 6: “To set at liberty those who are oppressed…”
On Day 3 we looked at how we, as Christians empowered by the Holy Spirit, can proclaim liberty to the captives. Today we want to look more into this topic by seeing how we can set at liberty those who are oppressed. Our guiding questions for today are the following: A person who is oppressed is someone who is subject… Read More..
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Day 7: “To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
On our last day in this devotional, we want to show how we as Christians, through the Spirit, can proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” Our key question for this text is: In order to understand the significance of this verse, we have to look at the biblical text in Leviticus and the customs the Jews were under at… Read More..