Preparing Our Hearts for Christmas....

 

Sometimes our hearts don't feel ready for Christmas. Perhaps life

has changed for us in some way...the loss of a loved one, a relocation,

a divorce, health or financial issues...

I just wanted to reach out and post a few suggestions that help me, and maybe

will help someone else too.

• focus on the Reason for the Season...Jesus

In order to do that perhaps write down a few reasons why it's important to you

that Jesus came...keep your list and look at it periodically through the season...

• Read the Christmas story in Luke 2. Maybe read it a few times over the

course of the season. Underline some key phrases that are meaningful to you.

• Turn on the Christmas music! Maybe while you're in the car...or cleaning the

kitchen...Sometimes I even sing to them! 

• If you can, get outside and just find the wonder in God's Creation...even look out your window to see His Glory there....Pray and thank Him for it!

• If you are able to, and like to bake, make treats for your neighbors and take with a card and a gospel tract.

• One of my favorite ways to prepare my heart for Christmas is to shop the Samaritan's Purse Catalog for giving. It's the highlight of my Christmas! Find some way to give, it doesn't matter how much! If you can't give financially, offer your time to help a friend-even talking to them on the phone to encourage them. Espcially someone who is bed ridden, or just faced a life change.

May your heart be filled with the love of God and the birth of His Son during this Christmas season.

If you don't know that Jesus came to save us all, click here to read about how you can be saved!

White as Snow

Redemption Draweth Nigh

Things in our country and even our world seem to be spiraling, don't they?
Just a reminder that if you know Jesus as Savior (and if you don't, or don't
know what that means CLICK HERE) that this is all temporary, and leading
up to His return!
It brought this song to mind-I hope the words bring you comfort!

Years of time have come and gone
Since I first heard it told
How Jesus would come again some day
If back then it seemed so real
Then I just can’t help but feel
How much closer His coming is today

Signs of the times are everywhere
There’s a brand new feeling in the air
Keep your eyes upon the eastern sky
Lift up your head redemption draweth nigh

Wars and strife on every hand
And violence fills the land
Still some people doubt He’ll ever come again
But the Word of God is true
He’ll redeem His chosen few
Don’t lose hope soon Christ Jesus will descend

Signs of the times are everywhere
There’s a brand new feeling in the air
Keep your eyes upon the eastern sky
Lift up your head redemption draweth nigh

Lift up your head redemption draweth nigh

Click Here to watch a video of this being sung!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpwxar66tPg

Be Ye Thankful...

 

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts,

 to the which also ye are called in one body;

 and be ye thankful.

Colossians 3:15

Sacrificial Love

William Gladstone, in announcing the death of Princess Alice to the House of Commons, told a touching story. The little daughter of the Princess was seriously ill with diphtheria. The doctors told the princess not to kiss her little daughter and endanger her life by breathing the child's breath.

Once when the child was struggling to breathe, the mother, forgetting herself entirely, took the little one into her arms to keep her from choking to death. Rasping and struggling for her life, the child said,

 "Momma, kiss me!" Without thinking of herself the mother tenderly kissed her daughter.

 She got diphtheria and some days thereafter she went to be forever with the Lord. Real love forgets self. Real love knows no danger. Real love doesn't count the cost.

The Bible says, "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it."

But, as a mother, I can tell you that kissing that loveable little innocent baby is so easy!

God did something for us that was even more incredible. He loved us when we were UNloveable!

When we were sinful, and full of pride--He loved us, and showed it by giving us His precious and only Son.

He kissed us.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:16

It was an incredible gift, but, we each must accept it and make it our own.

Thank you God for loving me!

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

John 15:9

~Jesus

Why Did Jesus Come?

Click here and listen to find out!

This is why I love Christmas so much :)

Michael Jackson's Real Cause of Death

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Sobering Thought...

What a Wonderful Savior!

Matthew 28:6He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.





Mark 16:6And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.





Don't just take my word for it, check out these verses and more in your Bible--if you don't have one, try Biblegateway.com.





I sincerely hope that Jesus is your Savior! If you aren't sure what I am talking about, please click on the Way of the Master button at the very bottom of my blog page (scroll down).


Don't go another day without HIM! :)

God's Plan of Salvation
The Bible says there is only one way to Heaven
Jesus said: "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me." (John 14:6)

Good works cannot save you.
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." (Ephesians 2:8-9)

Trust Jesus Christ today! Here's what you must do:
Admit you are a sinner.
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" (Romans 3:23)
"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:" (Romans 5:12)
"If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us." (1 John 1:10)

Be willing to turn from sin (repent).
Jesus said: "I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." (Luke 13:5)
"And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:" (Acts 17:30)

Believe that Jesus Christ died for you, was buried, and rose from the dead.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners. Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." (Romans 10:9)

Through prayer, invite Jesus into your life to become your personal Saviour.
"For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." (Romans 10:10)
"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Romans 10:13)

What to pray:

Dear God, I am a sinner and need forgiveness.

I believe that Jesus Christ shed His precious blood and died for my sin.

I am willing to turn from sin.

I now invite Christ to come into my heart and life as my personal Saviour.

"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:" (John 1:12)
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 Corinthians 5:17)

If you have received Jesus Christ as your Saviour, as a Christian you should:

Read your Bible every day to get to know Christ better.
"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." (2 Timothy 2:15)
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." (Psalms 119:105)

Talk to God in prayer every day.
"And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." (Matthew 21:22)
"Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." (Philippians 4:6)

Be baptized, worship, fellowship, and serve with other Christians in a church where Christ is preached and the Bible is the final authority.
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" (Matthew 28:19)
"Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." (Hebrews 10:25)
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" (2 Timothy 3:16)

Tell others about Christ.
"And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." (Mark 16:15)
"For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!" (1 Corinthians 9:16)
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." (Romans 1:16)

If you accepted Christ into your heart, please comment and let me know!

Happy Easter!