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b'As a short refresher\\u2026Advent is basically a season of \\u201cexpectant waiting.\\u201d As we march toward, Christmas\\u2026each week\\u2026we relive some of the emotions that those who waited for the Messiah must have felt. As we become aware of what Christ\\u2019s coming really means for us\\u2026we began to feel some of that \\u201clonging\\u201d that they must have felt. They were longing for fulfillment\\u2026the fulfillment of the promise of God for a savior, deliverer\\u2026a king. \\n\\nCenturies later\\u2026many of us have that same longing for the fulfillment of the promises of God in our own lives. The season of Advent is supposed to reawaken that longing in us\\u2026but also serve as reminder\\u2026that He came. He kept his promise then and he will keep his promise to us. God broke into human history once and he can break into human history again.\\n\\nAdvent is a reminder to us that God is a covenant keeping God. He makes covenants with us and he keeps them. As a matter of fact, one of his names tells us so. \\n\\nWhenever we hear God speaking of Himself in the Bible as \\u2018God Almighty\\u2019 we are hearing the Hebrew name El Shaddai. It is a name for God that speaks of his \\nHis sufficiency, His \\u201cenough-ness.\\u201d\\n\\nEl Shaddai- His sufficiency, His \\u201cenough-ness.\\u201d\\n\\nFor more info visit http://northplacechurch.com/'