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.
Christmas Day – 110
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.
Christmas Day One Hundred Ten and One
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want the children returning to school today following Labor Day weekend to arrive at their Schools safely; I want those who are driving their automobiles to work, home from work to be alert and aware of School Buses with the stop arm’s out, the overhead flashing red lights mean “STOP” there are children exiting buses; I do not want to see another child hit by an un-attentive, distracted motorist; pay attention or you could kill, maim or injure a child.
Christmas Day One Hundred Ten and Two
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want you all to have a great Labor Day holiday, with family, friends, and to make it a safe, clean, and godly day too; if your traveling away from home too far to make the trip safely, and arrive back at home safe, and without trouble.
Christmas Day One Hundred Ten and Three
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.
CHRISTIAN HUNTING
CHRISTIAN HUNTING
1. And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any “of this way (of The Way)”, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
[Acts 9:1,2]
Before the Apostle Paul was saved (Saul) his favorite sport was Christian Hunting.
If a man goes bear hunting, it’s not hard for him to recognize a bear when he sees one, but how did Saul recognize a Christian when he saw one? It was most certainly by the Way they were living (disciples of the Lord).
They were not shy to openly live for Jesus in a hostile world.
1. Their Separation
I’m sure when Saul went looking for Christians that there were several places that he never wasted…
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Christmas Day One Hundred and Fourteen
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.
Prophets Speak – Christmas Day One Hundred and Fifteen
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)
Prophets Speak – Christmas Day One Hundred and Sixteen
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)
Christmas Day One Hundred and Seventeen
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).
Christmas Day One Hundred and Eighteen
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to always be in the heart and mind of prayer to the GOD Most High, for my family – my children, grandchildren; and as my wife and I prayed for our children’s spouses from the time they were babies crawling on the floor, or before; so too pray for our grand children to have born again, and godly Christian spouses who love God, and His Word.
Christmas Day One Hundred and Nineteen
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.
Christmas Day 120
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.
Christmas Day One Hundred Twenty and One
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.
Christmas Day One Hundred Twenty and Two
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.
Prophets Speak – Christmas Day One Hundred Twenty and Three
“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.
Prophets Speak – Christmas Day One Hundred Twenty and Four
“And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.” Ezekiel 29:16 (KJV)
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to always trust in the LORD and to be a reason for others to trust in Him too; to not be distracted by blessings, but to rest confidently in the Blesser who is GOD through His Son Jesus Christ who died on the cross, was buried, and rose again.
Prophets Speak – Christmas Day One Hundred Twenty and Five
“Thus saith the Lord GOD; ‘When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to My servant Jacob. And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.” Ezekiel 28:25-26 (KJV)
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want the world to know that …The LORD is God, and that there is no other; that He has revealed Himself in His creation, and in His written Word and in the Living Word which is His Son; and that no man, woman, boy or girl is without excuse, and without Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior you stand no chance for eternal life in the presence of God; and that you may know that God will fulfill every word He has spoken.
Thank You – Christmas Day One Hundred Twenty and Six
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to thank my Lord and God first of all for His love, mercy and grace; and His many, many blessings; and I want to thank him for you the ones who come to this site and take the time to read these posts on Christmas Day.
There are many of you who come here day after day, and some ever since day one (December 26, 2015) for these Christmas daily wants.
We are well over halfway through the task, and it has been a blessing to me; but I do need to say I will be glad when Christmas Day actually arrives. I do not know that I would do it again. It has been a time of great thought, and provocation for me.
Again, to all of you THANK YOU.
Prophets Speak – Christmas Day One Hundred Twenty and Seven
“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.” Ezekiel 18:30-32 (KJV)
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to be a pleasure to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit of God; and when the body that I am living in dies I want God to be pleasured by it; so I want my life and my death to glorify Him, and I know, I trust, and I believe that God sent His only begotten Son, and that whosoever believes in Him (and that “whosoever” is you and me) shall not perish, but have everlasting life.
Also see Psalm 116:15.
Prophets Speak – Christmas Day One Hundred Twenty and Eight
“For thus saith the Lord GOD; ‘How much more when I send My four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast? Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it,’ saith the Lord GOD.” Ezekiel 14:21-23 (KJV)
Jerusalem, Judah, Israel were being judged because of their rebellious, hard headed, hard hearted actions against God, His Word, and His ways. They were being disciplined by a loving, caring Father who loved them deeply, but loved them too much to let them go to eternal destruction.
He does not judge, or discipline without purpose or cause.
What do I want for Christmas today?
It seems to me that our nation, and much of the world is given to idols of our own making; recreation, entertainment, are two of the most popular; and to be clear; there is nothing wrong with those, except when they take us away from God and His Word; So I want that my heart and mind be on Jesus, His Word, His way for my life, living for Him, and Him alone, and the knowledge, wisdom, and power to live with joy, and praise in my heart and life solely because of Him; and I want all others to know this same joy, power and praise, and to have the same assurance of eternity with Jesus, due solely to the fact of the death, burial and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Prophets Speak – Christmas Day One Hundred Twenty and Nine
“Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.” Ezekiel 11:16 (KJV)
In their captivity God is giving His people who are known to have rebellious, hard hearts, a promise of His presence, peace, safety, and security in a foreign land.
What do I want for Christmas today?
There is an absence of the presence of God in many lives, because they do not know Him; I want all to be aware of the presence of God, and His love for you shown on the cross of His Son Jesus where He bled and died, was buried, and bodily arose from the grave, coming out alive conquering sin, death, hell and the grave, and gives peace with God, and everlasting life.
Prophets Speak – Christmas Day 130
“Then He said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke Me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. Therefore will I also deal in fury: Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in Mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.” Ezekiel 8:17-18 (KJV)
The anger of God concerning the sins of humanity is not a popular topic. We are more aspiring toward the “Love of God”. The love of God is awesome; however, without the anger and wrath of God toward sin His love would be a moot issue.
Ezekiel the prophet of the above verses had been taken, by vision, to Jerusalem to witness the atrocities of the temple previously to their captivity. They were atrocious sins against God and the temple. Now, though I do believe the prophet already had some understanding of their captivity, Ezekiel had a fuller understanding. The priests and the prophets and the people had “Thumbed their nose” at God, His Word, and the prophets who spoke God’s truths.
What do I want for Christmas today?
I want to never have contempt in my heart, mind or being for God, His Word, His preachers who declare the Word of the LORD, or His people; I want to always declare the truth of God’s Word even when it is not popular to do so; I want to preach and teach the Word of God so that God is glorified, and the cross of Jesus – His death, burial and resurrection is declared, and people know the price God has paid to redeem fallen humans from our sins.
Prophets Speak – Christmas Day One Hundred Thirty and One
And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their looks, though they are a rebellious house. You shall speak My words to them, whether they hear or whether they refuse, for they are rebellious. But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.” Ezekiel 2:6-8 (NKJV)
What do I want for Christmas today?
Though I live in a foreign land, because it has turned her back on the One who made her great, I want to eat the Word of God daily through study, reading and application of it in my life; that I may be a witness for my God and Savior Jesus Christ no matter what this nation or the world may hurl at me; to be strong and faithful even unto death, and unto life.
Prophets Speak – Christmas Day One Hundred Thirty and Two
“It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in Him.” Lamentations 3:22-24 (KJV)
Though the prophet Jeremiah is lamenting the tragedy of Judah and Israel, he recognizes that the mercies of the LORD are without fail. They are “New every morning”. Mercy is a great power and offering from our Lord to us every day.
What do I want for Christmas today?
When I wake up of the mornings I want to be thankful for the LORD’S mercy that He has given me another day, that I am breathing, that I have a beating heart, for all the manifold blessings He has given me; and I want to share that mercy, those mercies, as much as within me, with my family, friends, neighbors, and those who may not be at peace with me.
Through the mercies of God we can know His grace through the death, burial and resurrection of His Son Jesus, God the Son.
The Fire and Hammer 