Hello my most wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. Today is such a special day for me and many others in the world. It is the day of the year that we celebrate our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ’s Birthday. Praise God!!
Dear God Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth, thank You for giving Your Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, (God Incarnate), to be born for the purpose to die for us. Jesus is the Best Gift Imaginable. You gave Him for all people regardless of where we live on the earth, what nationality, culture or race we may be. You gave Jesus for both male and female, the older and the younger generation. You gave Him for the rich and the poor, the educated and the uneducated.
You gave Jesus to take away the sins of everyone in the world if only we would acknowledge our sins, repent and turn to You, and accept You as LORD and Savior of our lives. You love us too much to leave us in our sins. You change us from the inside out. You change our hearts and desires. You fill us with Your Holy Spirit Who leads us into all TRUTH. You put a burning desire in our hearts to read Your WORD the Bible, be filled with Your Pure Love and Peace and be obedient to You. These desires then overflow from us to others. The Best life ever!
We can never thank You enough LORD. You are Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscient. You are Holy and we praise, worship, and thank You God for giving us Jesus and thank You Jesus for giving us Your Holy Spirit so that we are never alone. You are always with us. We can trust You with our very lives and the lives of all of our generations. Please LORD call us all unto You to be saved before it is our time to leave this earth and it is too late. We thank You. In Jesus Name Amen. All Glory to God.
ISAIAH 9:6 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.
If you were God, the Creator of the entire Universe and everything in it and all of human kind; where would you want your son to be born? In the most prestigious hospital, with the most renowned doctor to deliver your precious boy. Who would you announce your newborns birth to first? Would it be your closest family, friends, neighbors, then your boss and co-workers? What layette set would you pick out for him? Wouldn’t it be made of the softest material, latest style and color and most adorable design?
Let’s see what God chose for His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ our LORD. God chose the Virgin Birth which took place when the Holy Spirit Supernaturally overshadowed Mary who was a virgin. Joseph was the Godly man who was espoused to be married to Mary the teenage virgin mother of Jesus. God was Jesus’ Father and Joseph was our LORD’s ‘stepfather’.
Mary actually risked her life in obedience to God to become pregnant with Jesus. People could think she had been with another man, other than Joseph and she could be stoned to death which was the just punishment for adultery in the era in which they lived. Joseph could be publicly humiliated and decide to send Mary away instead of marry her.
God had sent Gabriel, His messenger angel to both Mary and Joseph separately prior to Mary becoming pregnant, and told them what God was going to do.
A census had been ordered by Cesar for taxing purposes. Everyone had to return to their hometown. Mary and Joseph had walk 90 miles from Nazareth to Bethlehem, which took approximately 5 days. Mary who was about to deliver was riding on a donkey. They were not surrounded by the love and support of family and friends when Jesus was born.
When they arrived in Bethlehem, there was no Inn to stay in because they were all full since all of the people who were from Bethlehem had to return for the census. Thus Jesus our LORD was born in a Manger. He was not born in the most prestigious hospital and delivered by the renowned doctor. He was wrapped in swaddling cloths which were rags used in the care of the animals. He did not have a soft, adorable, designer layette set.
Who did God choose to make His Son’s Birth Announcement to first? He sent an angel to some shepherds who were in the field caring for the sheep. God did not tell the relatives or friends of Mary and Joseph first. He did not first tell the elite, the rich, the religious leaders, or the educated. God chose to tell simple shepherds.
Jesus was God’s Sacrificial Lamb. God sent His Son to die the horrific death on the Cross for our sins so that we might be saved and be able to spend eternity in heaven with Him instead of hell.
REVELATION 13:8 …THE LAMB SLAIN FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.
LUKE 2:8-13 NOW THERE WERE IN THE SAME COUNTRY SHEPHERDS LIVING OUT IN THE FIELDS, KEEPING WATCH OVER THEIR FLOCK BY NIGHT. 9-AND BEHOLD, AN ANGEL OF TH LORD STOOD BEFORE THEM, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHONE AROUND THEM, AND THEY WERE GREATLY AFRAID. 10-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. 11-FOR THERE IS BORN TO YOU THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID A SAVIOR, WHO IS CHRIST THE LORD. 12-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:
LUKE 2:14 “GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE, GOODWILL TOWARD MEN!”
That was a Powerful, Glorious, Supernatural announcement by God of His Precious Son!!
Until we get to talk again please remember that I love you and am praying for you. Most importantly Jesus loves you. Please choose to live your lives with Him and for Him. It is an Amazing Life with the LORD. There will be temptations, trials and tribulations but you will never be alone. Jesus will always be with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. You will never regret it.