Month: December 2018

Good morning my most Wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much! I have to get going this morning because we are feeding our friends who currently don’t have homes at our church. But I just wanted to wish you all the Merriest, most blessed Christmas ever!

Please remember this holiday celebration is for everyone of us and it doesn’t cost a penny,  (unlike commercialism would like for you to think.) The cost has already been paid when God the Creator and our Heavenly Father, and Jesus’ Only Father, gave us  His Only Son, Jesus Christ our LORD  to be born of a miraculous virgin birth, as a Babe in a manger in Bethlehem, to a young peasant couple. Today He wants us to celebrate His Son’s Birthday with Him. Glory to God on the highest and peace, good will toward all men.  And not only today, we can, and should, celebrate Jesus everyday!

Please do not forget that this King Baby- Jesus, is also Jesus the soon returning King, Priest, Savior of the entire world. He will not return as a Baby at that time. He will return in all of His Dunamis Power and Glory and the whole world will see Him at the same time! ( We will talk about this  later). He is, and always has been the KING OF THE WORLD! This is one of those TRUTHS that Supersede Facts!

Dear LORD God Almighty, thank You for Your Son, our LORD Jesus Christ, Whom we celebrate today and every day of our lives. Draw us all unto You LORD, wherever we may be all over the world! Please let those who may be lonely, sad or hurting and broken today; to know that You are and always will be right there with them and their families for all generations. Protect us LORD and provide for us as only You can. Keep Your angels around us LORD. We ask this in the Precious, Holy Name of Your Son Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Glory to God! Thank You LORD for Your Son!’

Happy Birthday Jesus! Merry CHRISTmas World!

Hello my most Wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. It is great to be writing to you on this day which is 4 days until Christmas. Yay! I love this season of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ!

Dear LORD God Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth,  galaxies, mountains and oceans. Birds of the air, fish of the sea, animals that roam the earth and all of us, your children. Thank You mostly for gifting us with Your Only Beloved, Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. He is of course the reason that we are celebrating this season. We love You LORD. We worship You. We thank You that You were born and died that our sins, although they are many, are completely forgiven when we bring them to You in repentance. We bring You our mess and You give us Your Righteousness in exchange.

Thank you for this season of loving and giving. Thank You that You protect us and love us LORD, and want to do life with us. In fact, so much so that You came from Heaven to earth, born as the Baby King Who Rules the world! Not only do You want us to do life with You; You want us to count on You for our provision, protection, guidance, wisdom, blessings, counseling, and correction in righteousness. You give us gifts to use for your glory. You write the story of our lives before we have even taken our first breath. You are the Author and Finisher of our lives.

You give us purpose and destiny no matter who we are. No matter if we are extremely educated or of average intelligence. Whether we work in a professional capacity or a job which requires more physical labor. Whether we are rich or currently living in poverty.  We thank You for always being with us and never, ever leaving us nor forsaking us. Thank You that we are never alone and You protect us with Your angels. Thank You mostly for Jesus. In Jesus Precious Name we pray and thank You in advance.  Amen. Glory to God!

Just Who is this Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Whom we celebrate at this Christmas season? The LORD and Savior, God Almighty. He is the LORD Who is spoken of in   GENESIS 1:26     LET ‘US’ MAKE  MANKIND IN ‘OUR’ IMAGE.

He is  JOHN 1:1-5   IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD AND THE WORD WAS GOD. THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD. ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM ; AND WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANY THING MADE THAT WAS MADE. IN HIM WAS LIFE; AND THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN. AND THE LIGHT SHINETH IN THE DARKNESS; AND THE DARKNESS COMPREHENDED IT NOT.  (kjv)

JOHN 1:14     AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH, AND DWELT AMONG US. AND WE BEHELD HIS GLORY, THE GLORY AS OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER, FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH.    

Jesus was prophesied to be born in the town of Bethlehem hundreds, (or thousands of years?-sorry, I am not positive.) of years before He was born.  MICAH 5:2-5 {OT}   “BUT YOU, BETHLEHEM EPHRATAH, THOUGH YOU ARE SMALL AMONG THE CLANS OF  JUDAH, OUT OF YOU WILL COME FOR ME ONE WHO WILL BE RULER OVER ISRAEL ,WHOSE ORIGINS ARE FROM OLD, FROM ANCIENT TIMES.”

MATTHEW 2:1-6  {NT} AFTER JESUS WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM IN JUDEA, DURING THE TIME OF KING HEROD, MAGI FROM THE EAST CAME TO JERUSALEM  AND ASKED, “WHERE IS THE ONE WHO HAS BEEN BORN KING OF THE JEWS?” 

Jesus was born of His Mother Mary who was a virgin. ISAIAH 7:13-14  (Old Testament {OT} for those who do not know) ….THEREFORE THE LORD HIMSELF WILL GIVE YOU A SIGN: THE VIRGIN WILL BE WITH CHILD AND WILL GIVE BIRTH TO A SON, AND WILL CALL HIM IMMANUEL, (GOD WITH US). 

LUKE 1:26-35  {NT} GOD SENT THE ANGEL….TO A VIRGIN PLEDGED TO BE MARRIED TO A MAN NAMED JOSEPH, A DESCENDANT OF DAVID. THE VIRGIN’S NAME WAS MARY.

ISAIAH 9:6-7   FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN, UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN; AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER. AND HIS NAME WILL BE CALLED WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE. OF THE INCREASE OF HIS GOVERNMENT AND PEACE THERE WILL BE NO END, UPON THE THRONE OF DAVID AND OVER HIS KINGDOM, TO ORDER IT AND ESTABLISH IT WITH JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE. FROM THAT TIME FORWARD, EVEN FOREVER. THE ZEAL OF THE LORD OF HOSTS WILL PERFORM THIS.     

Wow that is amazing!! Jesus was prophesied so many times in the Old Testament of the Bible, hundreds of years before He was ever born. Then we get to read about Him in the New Testament. He fulfilled everyone of the prophecies in His Life. These are only a very few. More to come.

This our Amazing LORD God Almighty  Who was born as a Baby in a manger and we celebrate His miraculous birth on Christmas. Glory to God!

Well until we get to speak again, I love you all so very much. You are always in my prayers. Most importantly, Jesus loves you. God bless you and all of your generations.

LUKE 2:14      “GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE, GOODWILL TOWARD MEN!”                                 (nkjv)   (and Luke 2:1-20)

CHRIST BORN OF MARY!

1:  AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS THAT A DECREE WENT OUT FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS THAT ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE REGISTERED. THIS CENSUS FIRST TOOK PLACE WHILE QUIRINIUS WAS GOVERNING SYRIA. SO ALL WENT TO BE REGISTERED, EVERYONE TO HIS OWN CITY.

4:  JOSEPH ALSO WENT UP FROM GALILEE , OUT OF THE CITY OF NAZARETH, INTO JUDEA, TO THE CITY OF DAVID, WHICH IS CALLED BETHLEHEM, BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE HOUSE AND LINEAGE OF DAVID, TO BE REGISTERED WITH MARY, HIS BETROTHED WIFE,  WHO WAS WITH CHILD. SO IT WAS, THAT WHILE THEY WERE THERE, THE DAYS WERE COMPLETED FOR HER TO BE DELIVERED. AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRSTBORN SON, AND WRAPPED HIM IN SWADDLING CLOTHS, AND LAID HIM IN A MANGER, BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR THEM IN THE INN.  

GLORY IN THE HIGHEST!

8:  NOW THERE WERE IN THE SAME COUNTRY SHEPHERDS LIVING OUT IN THE FIELDS, KEEPING WATCH  OVER THEIR FLOCK BY NIGHT. AND BEHOLD, AN ANGEL OF THE LORD STOOD BEFORE THEM, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHONE AROUND THEM, AND THEY THEY WERE GREATLY AFRAID. THEN THE ANGEL SAID TO THEM, “DO NOT BE AFRAID, FOR BEHOLD, I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY WHICH WILL BE TO ALL PEOPLE. FOR THERE IS BORN TO YOU THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID A SAVIOR, WHO IS CHRIST THE LORD. AND THIS WILL BE THE SIGN TO YOU: YOU WILL FIND A BABE WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHS, LYING IN A MANGER.

13:   AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS WITH THE ANGEL A MULTITUDE OF THE HEAVENLY HOST PRAISING GOD AND SAYING:      “GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE, GOODWILL TOWARD MEN!” 

15:  SO IT WAS, WHEN THE ANGELS HAD GONE AWAY FROM THEM INTO HEAVEN, THAT THE SHEPHERDS SAID TO ONE ANOTHER, “LET US NOW GO TO BETHLEHEM AND SEE THIS THING THAT HAS COME TO PASS, WHICH THE LORD HAS MADE KNOWN TO US.” AND THEY CAME WITH HASTE AND FOUND MARY AND JOSEPH, AND THE BABE LYING IN A MANGER.

17:   NOW WHEN THEY HAD SEEN HIM, THEY MADE WIDELY KNOWN THE SAYING WHICH WAS TOLD THEM CONCERNING THIS CHILD. AND ALL THOSE WHO HEARD IT MARVELED AT THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE TOLD THEM BY THE SHEPHERDS. BUT MARY KEPT ALL THESE THINGS AND PONDERED THEM IN HER HEART. THEN THE SHEPHERDS RETURNED, GLORIFYING AND PRAISING GOD FOR  ALL THE THINGS THAT THEY HAD HEARD AND SEEN, AS IT WAS TOLD THEM.     

Wow God, what an amazing Birth Announcement this was about Your Son, our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth!

Good morning my most wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. It is so wonderful to be able to talk to you all this morning on this day, just 8 days before we celebrate Christmas. I love, LOVE, L.O.V.E this season of celebrating the Birth of Jesus! I really love this season for just that reason too; to celebrate the birth of God’s Son…..GOD’S SON’S BIRTH…. imagine that! And God the Creator of the Universe, and of you and me, wants to celebrate His Sons birth with us. In a spectacular way; in a life changing way. Like when His angels lit up the skies of  Heaven with His Glory, as they announced the LORDS birth.

I also love it for the spectacular light shows and elegant home decorations. I love  the festivities,  gatherings of family and friends and even strangers, and delicious food. I love the extra opportunities to bestow our generosity upon those who are less fortunate.  I love that there is an out flowing of love “in the air” around this season that is so real that it is almost tangible.   I just LOVE CHRISTMAS! CHRISTmas. Who would ever want to take “Christ” out of Christmas? Come on world; the Birth of Jesus is the reason for the  Christmas celebrations. The Divine Giver God gave His Gift of His Son to us, His children, here on earth.  Jesus is the Reason for the Season! (as the saying goes) This is just another example of a Truth that Supersedes fact. {The name of this blog  : ) }

Dear LORD God Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth, we come to you with love and adoration. We come to You with thanksgiving swelling up in our hearts for Jesus Christ our LORD! Please help us to light up Your world with Your world changing light, like Your angels lit up Your skies with Your Glory on that Victorious night over 2000 years ago. You tell us to be Your light in a darkened world.

That night when You personally made Your Birth Announcement that Your Only Beloved, Begotten Son our LORD Jesus Christ was born! When PURE LOVE was born. When life changing PEACE THAT PASSES UNDERSTANDING was born!  When the DIVINE HEALER, PROVIDER, REDEEMER, MIGHTY COUNSELOR was born. When the KING of kings, LORD of lords, MAGISTRATE of magistrates, the ONE AND ONLY GREAT POTENTATE was born as a Baby in a manger.

Thank You LORD. We love You, we praise You, we worship Your Holy Name!  Help us to love our “brothers and sisters” as You want us to, no matter what part of the world they live in. Help us to reach out in love to all mankind, all humanity with Your love. Raise us up to represent You the way that You want to be represented; not the way we think we “feel like” representing You. Please protect all of these Your people LORD for all generations. Please keep Your angels around them. In Jesus Precious Name we pray and thank You in advance. Amen. Glory to God!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!

Well, I am so blessed to be able to spend some days with my 2 youngest granddaughters. They have been patiently, (or not so patiently), been waiting for me to write to you all.

I just wanted to make a couple of observations from this Scripture story about Jesus Birth.

We learned in Bible College that throughout Scripture God has included many historical facts. We see that the government officials of that day were named. This is historical proof of the birth of Jesus in that day and time. God includes so many historical facts throughout His Bible because His entire Bible/WORD is about His Son Jesus.

The Old Testament includes types and shadows of Jesus and is referred to as “Jesus Concealed”,  (by some). The New Testament is of course Jesus the LORD when He actually lived in a Human Body as God Incarnate on this earth and is  referred to as “Jesus Revealed.” These historical facts also help those who are atheists, agnostics, of other faiths and world views to know the TRUTH and the TRUTH will set you free!

It is beneficial for those who are extremely educated and sadly may think that they “know more than God”. As for me personally, I have always believed in God and Jesus and Holy Spirit, the One and Only Triune God,  by Faith. But when I also found out about all of the Historical facts; I was overly amazed. It also made me wonder how the Scholars of the Jewish faith missed their own Messiah when all of the facts , truths, and prophecies completely depict just Who this Jesus Christ of Nazareth is…. the LORD! The Messiah!

We notice that Mary and Joseph were betrothed or engaged at the time and yet Mary gave birth to Jesus our LORD. This is because Jesus is of course God’s Son and of God’s miraculous birth process.  Mary was impregnated by the Holy Spirit putting Gods Seed, Jesus, into her womb. (I hope I am explaining this correctly.) This God’s best miracle, I think. Joseph is His earthly father, perhaps like a stepfather that we have now days. Mary, a teenage bride, was obedient to God, taking the chance that she could even be killed or stoned because she was pregnant and not married in that culture in that day and time.

We see that God’s angel made the announcement.  Then multitudes of other angels joined in singing glorious melody about God’s Son, the Newborn Baby King of the whole world. God’s Glorious light was shining all around the shepherds and lighting up the entire sky. God the Father, God Jesus’ Father, was so proud of His Son as He made His Birth announcement  known to the whole world.

We see that God chose to make His announcement to shepherds who watch sheep for a living and who were living out in the fields. God did not go to the rich, the elite, the scholars, the kings.  He chose to make His announcement to His shepherds. He told them what they would behold with their eyes that would let them know that this was His Son. That is exactly what they found when they arrived in Bethlehem and found this King Jesus wrapped in swaddling cloths in the manger.

Then they left and told this story;  glad tidings of the good news of Jesus’ birth to the world. As we should go and  tell the whole world of the Gospel; of the Birth, Life, Death, Resurrection, Soon Return and Eternal Reign of this Jesus Christ our LORD the King of the world. And tell people how they can all have a personal, intimate, daily, moment by moment relationship with our LORD. We are not created to live this life without Him.

I have to go for now. Until we get to talk again, I love you and you are always in my prayers. Most importantly Jesus loves you.  (Sorry,  I can’t totally proof read for errors, my grandchildren are ready to go….NOW!)

Good morning my most Wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. You are Amazing. It is always so great to be able to talk with you early in the morning. You know, this month of December is the month in which we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth; our LORD and Savior, on Christmas. I want to write to you about all about Jesus this month. I did however have this topic of ‘Bullying’ on my heart to write to you about, so I will do that at this time.

Dear LORD God Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth, Jesus Christ our LORD and Savior and Holy Spirit. We love You LORD, the One and Only True God. We praise Your Holy Name. We worship You LORD. We celebrate You and Your birth, Your life, Your sacrificial death for us, Your resurrection and Your soon return. Help us to be ready for when You return LORD so that none of us will perish but we can all have eternal life with You.

The whole of nature sings a resounding praise to You LORD. The angels glorify Your Holy Name. We offer You ourselves and our lives as a living sacrifice to glorify You. LORD be with all of Your people and especially all of Your precious little children during this season. So many get depressed because they cannot provide the material presents that the world seems to think are so important at this Christmas Season. Instead LORD, draw us to You in a mighty way so we can focus on the true meaning of Christmas…YOU, JESUS!  Help us to want to do a lot more giving than receiving. Please keep Your angels around us and all of our generations. We thank You in advance. We love You and praise You, in Jesus Precious Name, Amen. Glory to God!

When I was in elementary school in the Midwest, I had to ride a school bus to school. My family moved from state to state approximately every 3 years so I was always the “new kid in school.” I tried really hard, but I never had very many friends. I was alone a lot.

I had one good friend though. We would get on the school bus together in the mornings to go to school and later in the afternoon to return home from school. There was never a morning when the entire school bus of approximately 30 children did not loudly laugh at and ridicule my friend and myself. They would stand up and point and make the same comments.

Kids can be so cruel. (Adults too.)  They would always make fun of  part of our anatomy. This causes body image issues and can lead to eating disorders, depression and worst of all; suicide. Since I was born in China; they would always call me “Gong”. For years now, I think it is so cool that I was born in China. I got over that bullying!

I was crushed every day before going to school. My friend was also hurt. Apparently this left an impression on me. ( Right???)  I am an adult and ……..quite  a few years older now and I am still writing about this. (Actually it is my first time to write about this.) We did not speak about this back in the day. We did not speak about a lot of things. We should have.

Doesn’t this make you wonder about the bus driver though? I sure do, now in retrospect. The bus driver witnessed this cruel form of bullying every single school day and did nothing. There was not even a phrase or name called “Bullying”. Thank God that we are all bringing this horrendous topic up now days, over and over. Thank  you for those who speak out. Thank you mostly for those who help prevent the bullying and restore the broken hearted people who have been devastated by bullying.

And I have to confess, (seriously…I have to confess), that when I saw a You Tube video of a High-school athlete stepping in and protecting a disabled boy who was being bullied by a group of high-school  students, I was glad that he stopped the Bullying! We should all do our part to stop Bullying. We should do our part peacefully and pro-actively.

I am not a “social-media type person”. This blog is as close as I have ever come to social media. If you ever read my very first blog; I tell you that the Holy Spirit taught me how to create this blog so that I could write about our LORD and bring Him glory across the World Wide Web. I can only imagine the pain that young people and even older people must feel when they are slandered/libeled on social media and these lies, or ever hurtful truths reach the multitudes in moments. God please protect our young people.

Young people please do not let what these bullies say affect you. Please do not post revealing pictures of yourself on social media, you are better than that. People should love you for who you really are, not who you pretend to be. Not who you “filter” yourself to be. Also please don’t pay that much attention to the pictures that everyone else posts because they are also filtering and sometimes pretending.

Be thankful about the very Awesome, Special, Wonderful Person that God created YOU to be. You have Destiny and Purpose from the LORD, God the Creator of the Universe and Creator of YOU. God bless you Precious children and young people of this generation. God bless and protect all of our generations. God bless all of my grandchildren for all generations and protect them from the negative wiles of social media and let them use social media as a powerful tool to bring the LORD glory!

BEFORE YOU WERE CREATED IN YOUR MOTHER’S WOMB..GOD KNEW YOU.

HE CREATED YOU WITH DESTINY AND PURPOSE AND GIFTS THAT YOU ARE TO WALK IN. YOU ARE WORLD CHANGERS FOR JESUS!

 

I have to go now. You are always in my prayers. I love you all so very much. Even most importantly, Jesus Loves You!  I will include more Bible Scripture about this topic the next time I get to write to you. God bless you always!