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This Christmas Eve :)

Richard Wormbrand was born in 1909 to a Jewish family in Bucherest. He converted to Christianity in 1939 and eventually became a Lutheran minister, although he worked with many of Christians faith in many different denominations.

He was tortured for his faith and became famous for standing up at a meeting of Christian leaders and” denouncing government control of the churche”s. He was also famous for saying “Christianity and communism are incompatible.” He also helped to start the Voice of Martyers.

But Richard also said something that truly applies to our every day lives, “More souls have been won for Christ by preachers that did what little they could than by renowned evangelists”

This Christmas Eve, as we celebrate the Birth of Jesus Christ, God’s Great Gift to us :), we can also give to others. A warm meal, a toy, a plate of cookies, help in this storm that is coming…

As Richard said, sometimes more souls are “won for Christ” by simple acts of kindness and love 🙂

Merry Christmas Eve 🙂

The Christmas Hope

Thank You!

For 400 years after Malachi, when God made it clear He would punish those who behaved badly, God did not speak! But many kept praying. Can you imagine, praying and waiting for 400 years? How faithful were they!

But they did have one very important thing in their favor, they knew their Hope was in God. Just as we know that our Hope is in God today 🙂

This Christmas, let’s let the Hope of the Holy Spirit come alive in our hearts and let’s share our Hope with others 🙂

Thank You Jesus!

The Greatest Love Story Ever!

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told is God’s Love For Us! No one has ever loved me as much as God; no one ever will :).

A good friend sent me this text, it described God’s Love so well:

“Know that I AM in you and you in Me. Nothing on earth can take this away. I will give you My Strength and Courage. I will give you My angels to help and protect you. I will give you My Holy Spirit Stirring in your heart, to share Me with others. I gave you My Son for Sacrifice for your sins. I will give you Eternal Life with Me for seeking My Face. I will give you My Peace now and forever. Amen!”

Wow! How could it be better than that?

This Christmas, let us celebrate how truly loved we are by God and share that love with others 🙂

Welcome Finland :)

What Future Will We Choose?

“I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.”-Isaiah 66:4-5

This does not have to be our future. God gave us a choice. He sent His only Son Jesus to Save us!

This Christmas, as we celebrate His birth, we can also recommit ourselves to Truly Following Christ. Let that be our Birthday Gift to Jesus.

This Christmas, Share Christ’s Love With The Lost!

“Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Prince of Peace”-Wonderful Counselor”

How Blessed are we :).

But there are some who reject Jesus. Some who celebrate Christmas, without even celebrating His birth. It’s hard to imagine how anyone could celebrate Christmas, but not celebrate Christ’s birth. It seems wrong.

To realize that there are people/souls are “perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost”. And not to care. Somehow that also seems wrong.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”-John 3:16

Seems like if God loved us so, we should love unbelievers just as well.

This Christmas, pray especially for those who do not believe. Reach out to those who do not yet know Jesus. And pray they will come to know Him in time.

Believe!

“Believe what you do believe. or else you will never persuade anybody else to believe it.”-Charles Spurgeon

As we approach Christmas, our thoughts and our hearts go out to those we love that do not believe. We want to share our joy and our hope with them, but are sometimes unsure how we can do that.

The first step is to “Believe what you do believe”. We can’t share what we don’t truly have ourselves. So often we ask, how do we make our faith stronger? There are some steps that can help such as praying and reading the Bible.

But really the way lies in asking God to make our faith stronger. To give us that Gift so that we can share it with others. Jesus said in John 7:38, “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” Jesus was referring to the Holy Spirit.

So ask the Holy Spirit, in Jesus’ Name, for Help today 🙂

The Bridge

See while praying the Rosary: The Great Depression

With the economy struggling world wide, many of us worry if we will one day return to the days of the Great Depression. Or worse yet, just as World War II pulled us out of the Great Depression, will there be a World War III?

But the answer is the same today as it was yesterday, Jesus 🙂

Jesus created a Bridge between the Father and us. He created a path for us to spend eternity in Heaven. but we do need to accept His Great Gift.

As we approach the Celebration of Christ’s birth, accept His Gift today!

We Need To Open Our Eyes!

“Father, please open our eyes” is a phrase in the lyrics of the song Make It Right. As we approach Christmas, the need to “open our eyes” has never been stronger and more necessary.

Because being Christian is more than just a phrase and it is more than just a claim. It’s who we are, every minute of every day!

“I’m praying that you open our eyes”-Make It Right.

Please pray that we all “open our eyes”. For a prison can be a building, but it can also be our behavior choices. It can be the people we choose to spend our time with. It can be how we prioritize our time. Prisons are often of our own making, but we can choose to be free in Christ 🙂

And this Christmas, I also pray that we all make following Jesus our number one priority, we can make that our gift to Jesus 🙂

For Jesus have already given us so much. Thank you Jesus!

Pray For Peace!

In Matthew 24, verse 24, Jesus warns us that:

“For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.” – Matthew 24:24

So how will we know when Jesus truly returns? We know many things, but one of them is that Jesus will never contradict what is in God’s Word. Never.

The Bible is our resource; we need to read it.

And as we approach the celebration of Christ’s birth, we can celebrate the Hope that Jesus gives us. The knowledge that we are saved because He chose to be born. Truly we are Blessed. Thank you Jesus!

Prepare, Pray and Be Ready!