GRACE, MERCY, PEACE be with you! Conduct your lives in love! 2 John 1:3, 6
Merry Christmas!
GOOD FORTUNE, GOOD HEALTH
I pray for good fortune in everything you do, and for your good health—that your everyday affairs prosper, as well as your soul! 3 John 1:4
Jude writes to us that we are loved, called and kept safe by Jesus Christ.
RELAX, everything's going to be all right;
REST, everything's coming together.
OPEN your hearts, love is on the way!
FIGHT with All You Have in You! Jude 1:1 -2
Wondering this Christmas Day how to relax and fight?
GUARD AND CHERISH YOUR FAITH
Jude is begging that we fight with everything we have in us for this faith entrusted to us as a gift to guard and cherish. Verse 14 says that one day the Master is coming with hosts of angels in Judgment against those "grumpers" ---those who have followed a religion of whims and lusts. Jude 1: 4
BUILD YOURSELVES UP
Jude 1: 20 -21 But you, dear friends, carefully build yourselves up in this most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit, staying right at the center of God's love, keeping your arms open and outstretched, ready for the mercy of our Master, Jesus Christ. This is the unending life, the real life!
GO EASY on those who hesitate in the faith.
GO AFTER those who take the wrong way.
BE TENDER with sinners, but not soft on sin. Jude 1:22-23.
Jude 1:24 -25 And now to him who can keep you on your feet, standing tall in his bright presence, fresh and celebrating—to our one God, our only Savior, through Jesus Christ, our Master, be glory, majesty, strength, and rule before all time, and now, and to the end of all time.
YES.
May all "our aches be transformed by His Spirit into a consuming awareness of grace and into the joys of passionate hope, or it will seduce you into accepting a reviesed version of God's Story that promises to provide now the relief God promises later."
On This Christmas Day, I wept as I read the following quote in 66 LL. It's my heartmost desire this Christmas. It's what I want for Christmas every day of the new year: "When you see something in another worthy of criticism, before you think further about that person's faults, resolve that your life will beocome an increasingly visible and humble demonstration of love." A resolve to be holy. A resolve to love. 2011.
"Today your Savior was born in the town of David. He is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:11 NCV
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2 Corinthians 9:15 NCV
Praying God's richest blessings for each of you this day. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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Merry Christmas, Pearls!
ReplyDelete1 John:3 "Let grace, mercy, and peace be with us in truth and love from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, Son of the Father!"
2John: "How truly I love you! We're the best of friends, and I pray for good fortune in everything you do, and for your good health—that your everyday affairs prosper, as well as your soul!"
Merry Christmas, Pearls!
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--michele
Today! We've prepared for it, sang about it, shared gifts, spent time with family. Now, may our hearts be ready to receive Him anew in love, in thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteOur Savior for today and every tomorrow. Blessed Christmas Day!Celebrate Him.
Jude 1:24-25 And now to him who can keep you on your feet, standing tall in his bright presence, fresh and celebrating—to our one God, our only Savior, through Jesus Christ, our Master, be glory, majesty, strength, and rule before all time, and now, and to the end of all time. Yes.
Amen.
Thanks be unto God for His indescribable Gift!!! Merry CHRISTmas every one...
ReplyDeletePraying for each of you this Christmas that we will be delighted and disturbed and never the same because of Him!
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