What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to always be mindful of the negatives and the positives in God’s Word; and I want Christians all over the world to realize that without the negatives the positives do not have any use; keeping in mind “The Day of the LORD”
“Be silent in the presence of the Lord GOD; for the day of the LORD is at hand, for the LORD has prepared a sacrifice; He has invited His guests.” Zephaniah 1:7 (NKJV)
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to always be aware, watching and knowing that the answers God gives to life’s perplexing questions are of greater value than any that men, women or their philosophies can give.
“I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart, and watch to see what He will say to me, and what I will answer when I am corrected.” Habakkuk 2:1 (NKJV)
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to be able to deal with conflict, wrongdoing, and evil in a fair, just and righteous way that will bring glory to our Lord.
Here is some food for thought.
This is the first of two posts that I have to preemptively tell you that my heart in this is motivated only in love and service to helping Christians (including me) more closely align in following the way of Jesus. I simply ask that if you are a Christian and one who struggles with anger when a person challenges your faith perspective, then maybe park this post until you can read it in a non-defensive, non-oppositional, and peaceful posture. These words are meant to begin a civil conversation and dialogue and then to guide us into deeper reflection and dependence on the Spirit of God in our lives.
Too many times, Christians read what I write (with the most recent example being about Christians and politics) and quickly retort, “Well, I disagree with your position,” or, “Well, that is just your opinion.” Others immediately dismiss what I have written and…
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With this countdown thing it may have drawn it out longer. I can hardly believe that we are only one hundred days from December 25, 2016. I pray and want all to be blessed today, and everyday.
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want you to read the first paragraph above.
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want peace to reign always in my heart; and in my home, family, friends, and in the world; I want the world to know the peace that comes only through faith in Jesus and His death, burial and resurrection, and that He is coming again and all will be made right.
But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, ‘Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths.’ For the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And He shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it. For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.” Micah 4:1-5 (KJV)
What do I want for Christmas today?
When it is possible, I want to be more compassionate to people no matter what their life’s plight, no matter their economic level, health, race, or religion; I want to be compassionate to all people; I want to be compassionate enough to share the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ with them.
Remembering Jonah.
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want parents to know and to realize that their children are not perfect; that any of them can be a trouble maker, or a bully, and will lie, cheat and deceive; and that though they are loved they can be trouble, cause trouble or be in trouble; I want them to know that though these things are true they are still loved, yet need correction many times; sometimes even after they are grown; that the only answer for raising kids is to give them to the Lord; and you be an example to them.
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want the hungry to be fed; the homeless to have shelter; those who weep to be filled with joy, and I want the wealthy to notice and to take personal care of the poor, and poverty stricken; and no longer taking advantage of the weak and powerless.
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to be blessed by God in telling someone about Jesus Christ, and His cross, death, burial and resurrection; and to see that person call on the name of the Lord for salvation, receiving eternal life.
Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”For behold, He who forms mountains, and creates the wind, who declares to man what his thought is, and makes the morning darkness, who treads the high places of the earth— The LORD God of hosts is His name.” Amos 4:12-13 (NKJV)
“Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28 Jesus (KJV)
What do I want for Christmas today?
It is the Lord’s Day once again, so I want to go to worship our God and Savior Jesus Christ with brothers and sisters in Christ, and glorify His name together, then go into the community, and the world, equipped, and ready to live in a way that shows Him to the world; and do that seven days a week.
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to be a good and godly steward of all that God has blessed me with; including my fellowship with God, my wife, home, family, friends, and caring for finances, house and land; and in that order of importance.
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to be a blessing to those around me; to be an encourager, to be a friend to all I meet, and to instill in them the desire for living right, to always point them to the Creator; our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for Mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.” Hosea 14:4-7 (KJV)
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to know what it is like to not want anything, and be satisfied with all that I have and always thankful for it.
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to live in a land, a nation, a country where everybody loves everybody, a place where people are helping each other when they are in need; I want to live in a place where everybody loves GOD, His Savior, His law, His Word, and everyone walks with Him; and when we do the latter the other happens.
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want this Lord’s Day to be one where the Lord Jesus Christ is lifted up in my heart, mind, and spirit, and in the Spirit of the Lord; that He might be glorified in me forever.
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to always know the heart and mind of God for my life, and to walk in it, that His name would be glorified.
I thank you Father for the cross of Jesus which makes this possible through Your Holy Spirit and Your Word.
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to be faithful and diligent in prayer, praise and thanksgiving to my God and Savior Jesus Christ; to live for Him that His name be glorified in me; and that I never do these things as defiance against human laws, but always in faithfulness to God.
Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.” Daniel 6:10 (NKJV)
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want any pride or arrogance in me to yield allegiance, faith and life to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; and that I might never forget that the Almighty GOD is the One who holds my life’s breath in His hand.
“…But you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, although you knew all this. And you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified…” Daniel 5:22-23 (NKJV)
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to so live my life; even unto death if need be; that others will know and see the living Lord Jesus Christ in me and desire to know Him too.
Read Daniel 3 of Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah (Shadrach, Meshech, and Abednego).
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to prosper in my Lord Jesus Christ, and to bring honor and glory to His name.
119 more “Christmas Day” posts. Are you glad.
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to have a clear heart, mind, and a clean heart and mind for living the life that will honor and glorify my God and Savior Jesus Christ; today especially since this is the Lord’s Day.
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to be sure and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with you:
God; holy and without sin; just, righteous, All Present, All Powerful, All Knowing and Immutable; created Adam in His image and likeness. God created Eve, the woman, the first wife, and told them to go and multiply and fill the earth (Genesis 1:27-31). Adam and Eve sinned against God in the perfect environment He had placed them in (Genesis 3). God sacrificed and innocent animal to clothe the man and the woman and to cover their nakedness.
Because of Adam’s sin; we are all sinners (Romans 3:10, 23; 6:23) condemned, dying, eternally separated from God our Creator, Savior, Sustainer and Judge.
God sent His Son Jesus who was with Him in the creation of all things (John 1:1-5, 14), because He loved the world (John 3:16), and offered Him as the sacrifice for all our sins.
Jesus the Son of God, and God the Son, was tried unjustly, cruelly, by the hands of wicked, and evil men; He had committed no sin – the only man who ever lived that can be said of – and He died for our sins according to the Scriptures (1 Corinthians 15:1-6). He was buried, and in being buried He carried all our sins away, left them in the grave, and He came out of the grave alive.
All you must do is believe on Him. Remember what Jesus said, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes on Him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16
And the apostle Paul quoting the Old Testament wrote, “Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Romans 10:13.
There is only one hope for the presence of God, and heaven, and that is through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
I want you to know that today; more importantly, GOD wants you to know that.
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to put my trust completely in the Lord GOD and His Word; and I do. I also want us to realize that there is no hope in any man or woman, except GOD’S Son Jesus Christ, and that you can believe every word He says.
“When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby. But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.” Ezekiel 33:18-20 (KJV)
What do I want for Christmas Today?
I want to live, walk, and stand in the righteousness that is found only through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ; and to live in His power, glory, and strength; and I want you to join with me; because the righteousness of mankind is as “filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6), and will keep us from GOD.
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