It is Christmas-Time! What does Christmas mean to the world? What does Christmas mean to you?
I hope you will (Lord willing) join me daily for the next 7 days, as I share what the Lord has revealed to me through daily posts right here at FGGAM ~ Daily, until Christmas day.
Thank you Dewey this opportunity to post on this For God’s Glory Alone Ministries wonderful site; and I hope this is a blessing to the ministries of Jesus Christ; and to the readers to know, believe and grow in our knowledge of the love God has for us!
What is faith; where do we get it, how much do we have? How much do we need? How do we grow in the faith that pleases God?
I hope these Christmas posts over the next 7 days speak blessings of strength, encouragement, comfort and of God’s Love to you, as you read this with me. I know I have been blessed over the last week in my time with the Lord in my personal Bible studies!
This all began about a month ago, when by my faith, I really believe the Lord asked me to create and order a sign that simply said, “Yes! There is HOPE!” Weeks passed, and then it all pieced together! About 2 weeks ago, we put this manger scene and sign together! It just fit perfectly as a message; and it is all by the revelation of God!!!
Yes! There is Hope!
Hope in Today Ministries, Inc.
www.hopeintoday.com
The inspiration in the manger scene is to remember the whole message of the love God has sent! Jesus was born in humility and he came to be our sacrifice for sin. From the Birth and life of Jesus –to the Death, Burial and Resurrection; “Who is Jesus to you?” is still our basic question each day, even 2000 years later!
We are blessed with the opportunity to seek God first daily, and gain knowledge with added understanding continually to help us survive in this world, through Jesus; Yet, JESUS lives eternally! Do you know Jesus like this? How is your relationship with the Christ; and do you know and participate in conversation with God through your faith, seeking the Mind of Christ always and in all things?
As the next week passed, the message of Christ grew in me to understand and clearly recognize that the Lord was teaching me the value of temperance! As always, I thought I knew that! But as always, God knows me well; and better than I know myself! I thought temperance was patience, but we actually add patience to temperance! And, well, Lord willing, you will read more as these posts appear over the next 7 days …
Welcome to this Series as the Lord directs me!
What is Christmas to you; and do you know and understand this Peace Jesus gives? Do you sense the Presence of God near? Don’t worry, God is near to all who will call upon His Name through His Son, whom God gave to us to believe!
No matter what your personal position is with God today, are you willing to come along with me on this journey to explore your destiny with God; and grow in your faith?
Peace and Joy are not just available at Christmas, but daily, because as the Bible teaches us to know and understand: “This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it (From the Book of Psalms 118:24)!”
As a diver puts on his gear to go under the water to discover what is already there, let us open our hearts and prepare to hear what God wants us to hear. Not through the pages of this post or website, but through the power of the Holy Spirit sifting our thoughts through God’s Word.
If we get what God is revealing to us day by day, we will never be the same!
So, as the Introduction: YES! There is HOPE!
Will you join me here for the next 7 days? And, will you keep a journal of what the Lord speaks to you every day?
In some ways, these are my journals that I am sharing with you as letters of daily encouragement to you; that I hope you will seek also to experience all the Lord has to offer you in this world through Jesus the Christ, the Son of the Living God!
This Christmas, if you feel led on Christmas Day or sometime thereafter (in the good Lord’s perfect time), will you share your testimony of how reading God’s word has changed something in your life; to encourage us in our faith too?
There are 7 days until Christmas day; and this series turned out to be 7 Parts; to God be the glory!!!! From a message and vision that the Holy Spirit of the Lord put on my heart; to my husband with “people working together making a difference” assembled these Nativity Scenes and Displayed this Sign, “Yes! There is Hope!” by faith alone. All day we were amazed, as God opened our eyes to see what HE had provided!!! Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen! Now, the hope God put on my heart stands to be seen with a purpose!
Sometimes all we need to hear is “Yes, There is Hope!” God is the substance and evidence to our faith! God can do anything according to our faith that believes!
How far would you travel to see this Child?
Hope in Today Ministries, Inc.
www.hopeintoday.com
As pictured throughout this series, the message is “Yes! –There is Hope!” Painting a picture of God’s Love, “Wise Men Still Seek Him”, but what does all this mean? For some, this may be encouragement for courage, strength; for some encouragement of comfort, but for all this is a message of the power and love of Jesus Christ, through a seed from God’s Word.
For some, this may be planting a seed of faith for you to understand the cause of Christ in a way to believe in the true and living God; and the good news of Jesus, as maybe it is you who are reading that you have never understood that Christ is a living and viable hope to believe and experience the love of God to know in your personal relationship with God. Yes! There is Hope in all things through Jesus!
The love of Christ can be known and believed! For some, this an inspiration from the Lord that perhaps may be like a watering to the Word of God which is already growing in you? Yet, in all things, it is God who gets the glory, because it is God who is the source and it is God who makes all things grow!
Do not doubt this message is for you! If you are reading this, and feel anything in your spiritual heart, there is a reason, that you are reading this today! Just believe God loves you; seek God; and read God’s message to you! …Even if you only believe with a tiny amount of faith –as the Bible says, the size of a tiny, tiny mustard seed; Please read, pray in Jesus Name; and believe what God helps you believe!
I hope this is an encouragement to you to know and believe (and grow) in your knowledge and understanding of love God has for you through Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord! This is the message of Christmas! Hope with Peace and Joy! The message of Christ is God’s love!
I hope this 7 Part series is a Lord willing, daily strength to you to overcome all things, even depression, through Christ who gives a supernatural and obtainable Peace and joy!!! Yes, there is hope! I hope you find a peace and Wisdom from God that knows and believes in a viable hope everlasting; and through Jesus Christ, God will equip you with all you need by His gift of Grace. God is willing to give you strength to overcome! Will you pray for the strength to overcome whatever the situation is, that is a trouble to your heart?
Do you need courage / strength to believe, then pray in Jesus Name; and tell God all about your doubts! God will help you, if you ask in Jesus Name and believe with the measure of faith God has given you to believe!
“If any of you are afflicted (in trouble), let him pray (James 5:13!” Yes, you can pray for yourself in Jesus Name! Yes, there is Hope! God has loved us this much!!! And the Name of Jesus is powerful! Satan wants to steal your testimony, but God wants you to believe and hold on to your faith!!!
The question we struggle mostly with surrendering our faith to, is “are we willing to want God’s help to overcome whatever that trouble is?”
Don’t shoot me down –I am not saying we don’t want God’s help to get well; or that we don’t want God’s help to be comforted, but usually what we want first is to be rescued from how we feel.
Instead of being rescued from how we feel, we can overcome and be freed from the effects of the trouble as we pass through that situation and experience the more powerful glory of the Lord, who is our Savior and Lord transcend our ability to rise above how we feel! Then, we are free indeed!
Yes, there is rescue in Christ … Yet, pray to understand how to pray and to understand the value in growing in the Lord as we are being prepared to be sent to make a difference in this world … after we have suffered a little while!
Yes, these difficult things do pass! “This too shall pass” is powerful to hear our own selves speak to our self!!! Yes! There is Hope! Jesus is our Hope and there is power in the faith in Jesus Name!
There is power behind the words “help and strength”, because rescue is not like the world views immediate rescue, but rather with a purpose to experience we can trust God! In all things, God has an agenda and Satan has an agenda! Seek God 1st to follow the Christ to end up well!
I could offer you my testimonies, but it is more powerful to you to experience your own testimony, because we live in a broken world for a little while longer! WE need to grow stronger and stronger in our faith that pleases God (like we gain a college education and on the job training to be the best at our job that we can be) … and, this (by faith) is how our trust in God and trust also in following Jesus, becomes unshakable faith!!! …When you become convinced in your own personal faith that greater is God who lives in you; than he that is in the world!
If you get this message of Christ, you will never be the same! I know, I won’t! Day by day, I am growing more and more and the message of Christ is a consistent goodness to me and to those around me!
Unconditional of the condition that you feel or the troubles you have seen (even, loneliness, despair, sickness [If you are sick, call on the elders to pray (James 5:14)] Jesus IS the Truth! Jesus is the Way and Jesus is the Life awaiting to be found for all who will seek the message of God’s love, searching for God’s comfort. God offers mercy, peace and even unconditional & powerful supernatural joy (get your personal testimony by leaning on Jesus, talking to God and experiencing that God does hear your prayers!)
Seek God first; and Find that your Hope is in the Lord! And, I will testify, I have the same hope and this hope is living and active through the Name of Jesus, our Savior and Lord!
This is the message of Christ’s Birth!
Yes!
There is Hope!
The Message is God’s Love!
His Name is Jesus!
Not to get too far ahead in these Christmas posts, but worthy to share also today, because why put off tomorrow, what the Lord has already said in His Living Word to help you today?
- So, if you are afflicted, pray! (See James Chapter 5:13)
You CAN pray for yourself in Jesus Name and find all you will need to overcome!
“Is any among you
(afflicted, KJV)
(suffering, WEB)
(In trouble, NIV)
(suffering hardships, NLT)?
let him pray.
Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
James 5:13
And, we learn how to pray and walk by faith in Proverbs 16:3 King James Version!
3 Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.
2. Yet, Check this out! God has a method; and He tells us in His Word!
This is the message of Christmas! Christ has lifted the veil for us to have a personal relationship restored with the true and living God!
Yet, If you are sick; call for the elders …and let them pray over you; anointing you with oil in the name of the Lord! …
In some circumstances, the Holy Spirit has shown me this oil is (of patience with people and in situations). I believe this oil Is the Holy Spirit that we are to keep full in our lamps (I believe our lamps are our spiritual heart) I believe this oil is the Holy Spirit annointing … in the Name of the Lord (see James Chapter 5). Please pray for your own revelations from God that will speak to your own situations well in Lord!
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord
(James 5:14 KJV):
I hope I didn’t get too side tracked, but God’s wonderful love for us is something to be excited about! I hope this is a comfort to you to know that you are not alone!!! We all need Jesus every day!
This is the message of the birth of Christ! We have to know the power of the death, burial and resurrection! Christmas celebrates the Good News that has come!
Perhaps this is long to my nature eyes and ability as I write and take care of 2 sick children at this time, but the power in this message is not one that I will abandon with out sharing, because of my faith.
The Bible says in Hosea 4:6 and Isaiah 5:13,
“6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge (Hosea 4:6 KJV),”
“13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Isaiah 5:13 KJV).”
I hope this is good news to you!
It is not too late for you or for me to learn and grow in our faith day by day and faith by faith to God be the glory!
The Birth of Christ! The Baby, the Child, the Teacher! All the way to the cross, we need Jesus! How can we refuse him now? We don’t choose sin because we are forgiven, but sin is forgiven because of Christ!
Repentance is a good word! Confession is a powerful tool!
God has SO loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son! This is HOPE and power to us!
Because of Jesus and His willing obedience to the cross to save us!!! …, sin has done nothing too bad to stop the love of God that is for you! All because God has SO loved you and these things that we struggle with is why Jesus come for us! First to free us from the penalty of sin; save us from death and hold us unto life; and then to help us overcome sinful desires, preparing us for life, because sin is harmful to us; and God is Holy!
Jesus didn’t come to be popular; nor, a celebrity –He willingly come to be our Savior and Lord! Jesus come to give us life! And, Jesus come to be our strength and ability in this born again spiritual transformation from the inside out through the helper He made available to us, The power of the Holy Spirit!
We all need Jesus and we need each other to fellowship in the knowledge of the Word of God (gaining understanding in a comprehending way); and in worship and praise as our hearts are freed from both guilt and condemnation!
This is why I write to you today!
God teaches me and then I can share in a way that I pray, the Lord Jesus will bring comfort to you in the same way that God has comforted me. God is this good, but the world has not understood God, His love or His forgiveness, because God is not a tradition, God is God; and God is love. We can’t understand what God does not reveal, and how can we know –if we don’t seek God first to grow in our understanding?
But there is good news! Seek ye first the Kingdom of God …
Writing through a parent’s eyes, God the Father’s perception of you is more than you can comprehend. I pray you can see you as God sees you!!! I pray, God will reveal Himself and His love to you, through your smile!
Could you for a moment,
…let go of the questions / doubts, because of where you are in your life, and listen to God’s message of His love for you, through a Father’s eyes and His perception. Listen to God’s Spirit speak to you, “That this too shall pass, and that there are greater things ahead!” Even beyond this life –there are greater things to come!!!
Christmas is not a competition.
Christmas is a time to remember who Christ is and what Jesus has done for us from the birth to the death, burial and resurrection!
God is leading us to eternity –Don’t let the temporary(s) of this world confuse you to think you can DO anything to get there / nor can you do anything to keep you from there, but to refuse the hope God has sent!
YES! There is HOPE and Jesus has done for us what we can never do –Think about what Jesus has done for you in your own life; and pause right now to thank Him, honor Him with your grateful heart that just believes in the love God has for you!
Yes! There is HOPE! Our Hope is Jesus; and God SO loved the World that he gave His only begotten Son … (John 3:16 …)
OKAY< Please be patient with me…
I am only me and I am tired. I see that I have started to work on this by own efforts, which is wrong. Yet, I believe I had permission from God to post this today. I would rather post for one than to keep back until I thought it was perfect.
Perhaps the rest is for someone, but for me, I have to post and go; So this is “as is” for now. & a perfect opportunity to see that God is the Source / not me. Be blessed!
God bless your heart to be renewed and strengthened and comforted! I can tell you that God knows your pain and your concerns! Trust Him.
Love in Christ, ~Karen
Jesus didn’t come to condemn you (John 3:17), but that through Him (you might believe) that the world (whosoever) might believe shall be saved by the grace of God; this is not of our own doing, it is a gift of God! (Emphasis mine, please look up in your Bible).
The life of Christ (through the death, burial and resurrection) is the sacrifice that has made available to us the power of God’s love for you and me! The power and authority in Jesus Name should not be undermined; rejected; nor refused! Will you seek God first? Will you allow your heart to believe? Don’t let your mind control your heart –Seek God’s thoughts and trust God to guide you in unity of both with His!
As the Lord places it on my heart to say to you; yes, in this world bad things happen, the way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost, but love never dies! Friend, I really don’t know who will read this, but I believe God has you on His mind! God loves you; and yes, He forgives. God knows where you’ve been and He knows what you have done; and yet, God loves you; the same as God loves me (and God knows every detail about us all).
The things we do can be very small –or monstrous big; but what the Lord is saying to me to write to you is that this is just a glimpse of how much greater is the power of the blood of Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the Living God, who died and Rose for me and you (whosoever might believe)!!!
The cross was not easy; (to understate the sacrifice on the Cross that God saw His Son go to). The Cross was not easy (to understate what Jesus willingly went to and through for me and you)!!!
God loves us all equally through His Son’s Covering! The cross did pass; and Jesus does live! Don’t get hung up on the cross, live grateful, full of thanksgiving and praise to God through Jesus Christ; and believe in the love and power of God that freed you from that pain and torture of being separated from God [whether a minute here on earth / or for all eternity]!
I hope this is an encouragement to live grateful today! It sure is a daily good refocus for me each and every today! Sure, there are pains in this world and terrible losses, but Praise God, I am thankful and this is my thanksgiving to say to you, YES, There is HOPE!
There is Truth to focus on! Jesus! If you feel like you are drowning –Focus on Jesus and walk overcoming the storms and waves that come to us as troubles in this world! Remember always, Living, He loved you; Dying, He Saved you; Buried, He carried your sins far away!
There is the Way (JESUS NAME SEEKING) to get there … that place where in your soul, you long to be –Jesus is the Truth and the Way! There is LIFE [with God] worth seeking and Jesus is the Life we seek and are grateful for. Jesus has one hand on us and one powerful hand on God!
Don’t let go; and don’t look down! Look up and thank Jesus today!
As the Lord leads, leading up to Christmas day, I hope (Lord willing) you will join me tomorrow; and daily for the next 7 Days, as this series is intended to encourage you in your faith that is everlasting; and even bring a focus of comfort and grace, and how faith fits in God’s Way!
- Focal Topic: From the birth to the Resurrection, our Hope is Jesus!
- Recommended Daily Reading, 2 Peter Chapter 1
See Also:
- INTRODUCTION
- A letter to you Speaking Light to your seed …
- Part 1: Blood, Purity and Life Everlasting!
- Part 2: Wise men still seek Him!
- Part 3: The Story of a Christian life is about Jesus!
- Part 4: How Does a Christian Grow in the Faith that Pleases God?
- Part 5: Personal Note from Karen
Love in Christ,
Karen Rowe
