1. ‘MAKE YOUR FACE SHINE’ Ps 80:1-7

2. 1. Introduction

4. 2. Pleas Not to Hide Your Face

5. Ps 27:9:
Hear my voice when I call, Lord;     be merciful to me and answer me. 8 My heart says of you, “Seek his face!”     Your face, Lord, I will seek. 9 Do not hide your face from me.

6. Ps 44:24:
Awake, Lord! Why do you sleep?     Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever. 24 Why do you hide your face     and forget our misery and oppression?

7. Why, Lord, do you reject me and hide your face from me?
Ps 69:17:
Do not hide your face from your servant;     answer me quickly, for I am in trouble.
Ps 88:14:
Why, Lord, do you reject me     and hide your face from me?

8. Ps 102:2:
Do not hide your face from me     when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me;     when I call, answer me quickly.

9. Ps 143:7:
Answer me quickly, Lord;     my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me     or I will be like those who go down to the pit.

10. And our reading today,
Ps 80:7:
Restore us, God Almighty;     make your face shine on us,     that we may be saved.

13. 3. Christmas Blessing

16. Psalm 131:
‘I have stilled and quieted my soul like a weaned child with its mother’
… so am I with my God.

17. 3. Aaronic Blessing

20. “Yahweh bless you and keep you, Yahweh make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; Yahweh lift up His countenance on you and give you peace”

21. “Yahweh bless you and keep you, Yahweh make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; Yahweh lift up His countenance on you and give you peace”

22. Jesus said:
“See that you do not despise one of these little ones for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually behold the face of My Father in heaven”.
(Matt. 18:10)

23. 5. And more …

24. ‘So they will put my name on the Israelites and I will bless them’.

25. ‘Do not repay evil with evil … because to this you were called’.
1 Pet 3:9:
‘Do not repay evil with evil …
but with blessing
because to this you were called’.

26. ‘Do not repay evil with evil … because to this you were called’.
1 Pet 3:9:
‘Do not repay evil with evil …
but with blessing
because to this you were called’.

27. ‘Do not repay evil with evil … because to this you were called’.
1 Pet 3:9:
‘Do not repay evil with evil …
but with blessing
because to this you were called’.

28. Blessed … to be a blessing. God’s face shining … Your face shining.