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• Wednesday, December 10

  Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is holding Lease Sale Big Beautiful Gulf 1 (BBG1) offering approximately 80 million acres in the Gulf of America for oil and gas leasing. It is the first of 30 lease sales authorized under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The event will be livestreamed on the agency’s site.

  

  The Federal Reserve is meeting today to consider the rate of inflation and the status of the nation’s employment to determine whether or not to change interest rates. Economic analysts are anticipating a possible .25 percentage point reduction as a result of this meeting.

  The House of Representatives is expected to vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) today. The House Rules Committee, chaired by Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, approved and released the text of the 3,086-page legislation on Sunday.

  As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…

  • For President Trump and officials in his administration as they seek to increase domestic energy production.
  • For members of the Federal Reserve as they review the current job numbers and the rate of inflation for their decision on an interest rate cut.
  • For representatives in the House to be discerning as they prepare to vote on the NDAA.

• President’s Today Schedule • December 10, 2025

  • 2:00 PM ET: The President partcipates in a Roundtable
  • 5:00 PM ET: The President greets Pastors

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• Your Savior and High Priest

  For it is witnessed of him, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.’ – Hebrews 7:17

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  You initially see Melchizedek in Genesis 14, where he suddenly comes to Abram, seemingly out of nowhere. He is the king of Salem, which some theologians argue is the location that ultimately is known as Jerusalem. He is also a high priest. Many believe he was an actual man who had heard that Abram had defeated four kings and came to bless him. Others say his appearance on the scene was a Christophany, a pre-incarnate presence of the Son of God, Jesus. Melchizedek offered Abram bread and wine, and he blessed Abram, whereupon Abram offered him a tenth of everything he had won in battle.

  All through the book of Hebrews, you see Jesus as greater than something or someone else. Today’s verse places Jesus in a greater priesthood than that of Aaron. The Levitical priesthood made sacrifices once a year on the Day of Atonement for sins; Jesus made a once-for-all sacrifice at the cross. Like priests, Jesus mediates, intercedes, and prays for His people. And His kingly and priestly reign will last forever, His blessings are eternal.

  Have you had an encounter with this Great High Priest, this King of Heaven? As political divisions split the nation, pray for those in authority to recognize their need for a Savior and meet Him face-to-face for the blessing of eternal life.

  Today’s Verse: Hebrews 7:17

  For it is witnessed of him,

  “You are a priest forever,
      after the order of Melchizedek.”

  All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

  Recommended for further reading: Genesis 14:18-20, Hebrews 7:1-3, 11-16

  ¹⁸ And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.) ¹⁹ And he blessed him and said,

  “Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
      Possessor of heaven and earth;
  ²⁰ and blessed be God Most High,
      who has delivered your enemies into your hand!”

  And Abram gave him a tenth of everything. 

  
  ¹ For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, ² and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace. ³ He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.

  ¹¹ Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron? ¹² For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well. ¹³ For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar. ¹⁴ For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.
  ¹⁵ This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek, ¹⁶ who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life.

  All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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