Leader:
Forever, O Lord, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens. Your faithfulness endures to all generations; you have established the earth, and it stands fast.
By your appointment they stand this day, for all things are your servants.
ALL:
If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
Leader:
Jesus said, “The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.”
ALL:
“Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
Leader:
Jesus said, “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
ALL:
Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path.
(Psalm 119:89-92; John 6:63, 68-69; Matthew 7:24-27; Psalm 119:105 ESV)