Ezr 3:10 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests stood in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the ordinance of David king of Israel. These were the returnees of the Babylonian captivity rebuilding the temple…
WHEN THE STORY ENDS ,OUR LIVES BECOME THE STORY
Luk 2:20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. Every one of us could probably tell the Christmas story. We know it well. A young virgin named Mary conceives a child by the Holy Spirit. She and her…
REMAINING SENSITIVE TO GOD’S DIVINE DIRECTIONS.
Mat 2:13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.” Mat 2:14 When he arose, he…
THE BIRTH OF A KING THAT TROUBLES OTHER KINGS.
Mat 2:3-4 When Herod the king heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ was to be born. King Herod was partly of Jewish descent. The Romans allowed him to rule…
WHERE IS HE THAT IS BORN KING?
Mat 2:1 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, Mat 2:2 saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship…
THE GOLD ISN’T ENOUGH,YOUR HEART IS PARAMOUNT
Mat 2:11 And when they came into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and prostrated themselves and worshipped him. And opening their treasures, they presented gifts to him: gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. When the wise men came to the manger and found the child Jesus with his mother ,they…
KEEPING THE EMOTIONAL FANTASY BALANCED.
1Co 6:12,13 “Everything is permissible for me” – but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me ” – but I will not be mastered by anything. Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food ” – but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality but…
THE STAR IS VISIBLE
Mat 2:2 “Where is he who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and have come to worship him”. Devoid of compass and modern day positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services ,the wise men studied the constellations and realised that there was one star that was…
GOD HAS ALWAYS USED ” LITTLE THINGS”.
Mic 5:2 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.” Micah wrote approximately 750 Years before Christ was born. He predicted that the messiah…
THE GOD WHO LIFTS THE LOWLY.
Luk 1:46 And Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord,Luk 1:47 and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior. Luk 1:48 For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidservant; for behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed. Mary , a young insignificant woman was more than ready to believe that God…