Christ is Born!

As God promised in the old Testament, He sent His only Son to die for our sins.  To be crucified in a terrible way so that we can be forgiven and have eternal life.  Christ rose from the dead on the third day and He ascended into Heaven 40 days after he rose, so that we are all saved!

What an awesome God we serve.

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, I thank you in Jesus Holy Name, that You did this for me.  Today Father, I repent and humbly ask that You might forgive me of all my sins.  I  forgive all those who sin against me.  I pray this in Jesus Name.  Amen.

Stay God Blessed!

Ask and it shall be given unto you!

God is truly amazing.  However God gave us His only Son to die for our sins that we might be forgiven.  The above verse is often misunderstood and we ask God to give us things and then wonder why we do not receive them.  What God wants us to do is ASK for forgiveness of our sins.  Then He will forgive us.  It does not work any other way.

We need to truly repent, and come to God and Seek His forgiveness, His love and His grace.  God reads our hearts and when our hearts are pure, He will grant us anything we want.  

We must be pure of heart and our intentions must never be for selfish gain.  We will NOT receive either His forgiveness, His grace or His mercy  or the answers to our prayers if we do not actively knock on God's door.  God gave us free will.  Let us use that to approach the throne of our Lord, our Saviour and our God in Heaven.  

Prayer:  Father God, I come before you today and I truly repent of my sins.  Where I have wronged others, where I have hurt others, where I have not done anything that might have helped, I ask for Your grace and mercy and Your forgiveness.  

I ask Heavenly Father that You grant me Your grace and Your mercy.  I undertake to forgive all those who have sinned against me as You forgive me.  I ask all of this in the name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay God Blessed. 

Be Humble!

God wants us to be humble.  This does not mean that we need to be lesser people.  It means that we need to think less of ourselves and think more about others.  In other words, spend less time thinking about ourselves and more time thinking about others.  

Jesus when asked, said "suffer the little children to come unto me".  (Matthew 19:14).  We need to become as little children in order to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. 

Today, let us think about the needs of others before we think of ourselves.  Let us become more humble.

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, I pray that You give me a humble heart.  Let me always think of others before I think of myself.  Let me become Your child in every way.  I pray this in the name of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay God Blessed!

A new Creation!

When we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour, when we believe in the resurrection, we become a "new creation".  The profound mystery of a Holy Trinity, our God the Father, our God the Son and our God, the Holy Spirit, is what creates us anew.

Through this belief, we are guaranteed eternal life.  What we need to do to accept this gift,  is  to love our God with all our hearts, our minds, our souls and our strength.  We need to forgive those who sin against us.  We need to ask God for forgiveness of our sins.  Last, but not least, we need to love our neighbours as ourselves.

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, Thank You that I am created anew in my belief in You.  Thank you that You forgive my sins.  Thank You that You love me and that I can share that love with my neighbour.  I forgive those who sin against me.  I pray this in the name of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay God Blessed!

God promises to heal our land!

God promises that as His CHRISTIAN people,  that if we truly repent and turn from our wicked ways, He will heal our land.  This also applies to our lives.  God reads our hearts.  If we do not truly forgive others, if we are not truly sorry, then we will not be healed.  We will not have eternal life! 

In healing us, God sends His Holy Spirit to dwell in us and our land.  (Our land is also the spot of land that we live on, not just our Country.)

As inhabitants of our Country we need to pray for forgiveness of our sins and the promise of God is that He WILL heal our land. 

It is clearly written down that God promises that He will do this.All God's promises are completely trustworthy.  We just need to OBEY HIM!

Prayer:  Father God, my Father, I humbly today ask that you forgive  ALL of my sins.  I forgive all those who sin against me.  Father those sins that I have forgotten I committed, forgive them.  I ask that You forgive my family and friends for their sins.  I ask that You forgive the people of this Country their sins.  

Father I TRULY forgive all those who sin against me, whether they know that they sin against me or not. 

I pray this in the Name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, who lived and died and rose again to give me life in eternity with You.  Amen.

Stay God Blessed. 

Love is Patient!

As Christians, when we draw closer to God, the fruit of the Spirit becomes more obvious.  When we know that God is with us and that He is in charge of our lives then our  spiritual fruits grow.  And against this, there is no law as Paul wrote to the Galatians.

In the above verse using this translation the word for patience is forbearance.  This is such a lovely term for patience as it makes us able to "bear" more than we often do.   Today let us as Christians, shine out all the gifts of the Holy Spirit to all the people we meet.

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, today I pray that I may be a living testimony to the fruits of the Holy Spirit.  Let my love, joy, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control radiate to all the people that I meet with and interact with.
I pray this in the Name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay God Blessed!

Love is kind!

In the first book of Corinthians Paul expounds on exactly what love is.  As all the writings in the Bible are the word of God, we can trust that this is straight from our God in Heaven.  

God says that love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth.  It always protects and always trusts, always hopes and always perseveres.  What an AWESOME GOD we serve!

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, I thank You that You love me in such a truly unconditional way.  I thank You that I can talk to You every day.  I thank You that I can read Your word and that Your word gives me such inspiration! Amen.

Stay God Blessed!

Be humble!

God calls upon us to be humble, patient and to love one another.  God also loves us so much that He sent His Son Jesus Christ to die for us. He took all our sins on His Son's shoulders.

Let us make a concerted effort today to remember these qualities and to put them into practice.  Let us try to be more like Jesus!

Prayer: Awesome God my Father in Heaven, I thank You for Your sacrifice in watching Your Son die on a cross for my sins.  I thank You that You love us all so selflessly.  Father help me to be patient, humble and kind.  I ask this in Jesus Christ of Nazareth's name.  Amen.

Stay God Blessed!

Praise God for He will guide you!

God is always there for us.  All we need to do is ask Him for His help.  This is such a simple statement, but it is always true.  God reads our hearts and knows each one of us.  He created us and He has a plan for us.

Let us today make a concerted effort to get to know God; really get to know Him!.  Let us read our Bibles in order to learn His word, and pray to Him so that when we ask for help we know that He is at hand.

Prayer:  Heavenly Father I pray today that I get to know You better.  Help me today Father to make time to read my Bible and remind me to take everything to You in prayer.  I pray this in the name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay God Blessed!

God will sanctify you!

When Paul wrote to the Thessalonians, he told them that he was praying for God to sanctify them.  The word sanctify means to "purify, make free from sin".   

So Paul in his writings to the people of Thessalonica states that his prayer for them is that they are purified and made free from sin by and through God's grace.  

The Bible is full of verses showing the love of God for each one of us.  We are promised that if we believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that if we believe that He was born as a normal child; that He lived on earth among us; that He died for us and that He rose on the third day and sits at the right hand of God, we are sanctified through the grace of God. 

Our next step is to pray for forgiveness of our sins and to forgive those who sin against us.  

We need to put God first in our lives and we need to have a relationship with Him by reading His word daily and by praying to Him about everything.

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, today I pray that You will forgive my sins as I forgive those who sin against me.  I pray that You will grant me Your grace and give me Your peace.  I pray this in the Name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay God Blessed!

Peace!

When we pray and give thanks to our wonderful Creator, God our Father in Heaven, then the Bible tells us in Philippians that the peace which transcends ALL understanding will guard our hearts. 

Meditate on that thought today.  It is guaranteed that when we thank God, we will have His peace.  So today, let us thank God from the bottom of our hearts that He is our Father and for His abounding love and grace.

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, today I THANK YOU for Your love of me.  I thank You for Your Son Jesus Christ and I thank You for the Holy Spirit that I know lives in me.  I thank You in the name of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  Amen!

Stay Blessed!

Joy!

God is in control of our lives.  We need to accept that in life we will face trials and tribulations. However when we face the problems we increase our perseverance.  Through this process, our characters are refined and our faith strengthened.  

So let's face adversity with joy!

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, thank You that You refine me.  Thank you that You are with me whenever I face any problems in my life.  I ask that You forgive my sins as I forgive those who sin against me.  I pray this in the name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay God Blessed!

God is Unfathomable!

Our God is truly amazing!  There is nothing to compare to Him!  He made us all and calls us all by name!  He knows every hair on our heads, and He wants us to come to Him.  He wants us to spend eternity with Him.  He sent His Son to die for us, to rise again and to go before us to prepare a place for us in Heaven. 

How blessed we are to have a Father like this!

Prayer:  Almighty Father, I remain completely in awe of Your majesty.  Thank You for making me and for wanting me.  I pray Father that I treat all humanity with the same love as You have for me.  I pray this in the name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay God Blessed!

Nothing can separate us from the Love of God

As Christians, we believe that Jesus Christ died to save us from our sins and rose again and sits at the right hand of God our Father.   

Paul in Romans says that when we believe in this divine Grace, absolutely nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.

How awesome is this!

Prayer:  Heavenly Holy Father God, thank You! Thank You and thank You again!  You are such a Gracious God, who sacrificed Your only Son so that I might live in the fullness of the Love of Jesus Christ.  Father today I pray that You will forgive my sins as I forgive those who sin against me.  Help me to love my neighbours as I love myself.  I love YOU Father.  I pray all this in the name of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Saviour.  Amen.

Stay God Blessed!

Fear Not

God tells us not to fear for He is with us.  This is so hard to do in this modern world where we all want to take control of our own destiny.  We want to be in charge!

God tells us not to do this, but to SURRENDER to Him in everything.  

Today let us make a concerted effort to give everything over to Him.  He is MIGHTY.  Nothing is to hard for god.  

In 2 Kings 20: 8 -11 we read that when King Hezekiah wanted a sign from God that he would live for fifteen years longer, God made the shadow go back 10 steps!.  That means that God literally moved the earth on its axis!  If God can do this to show Hezekiah that he would live longer, how much more can He achieve in our lives!

We just need to give it all to Him!

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, today I surrender my all to You.  I ask Father that You take all my troubles and all my fears and all my life and You take control Father.

I ask this in the name of my Lord and Saviour, Christ Jesus. Amen.

Stay Blessed!

Jesus laid down His life that we might be saved!

Our Heavenly Father loves each and every one of us so much that He sent His Son, our Shepherd, Jesus Christ to save us from our sins.

When we ask God for forgiveness, He forgives us.  So must we forgive each other.  We must remember those sins against us no more.  We must not carry even the slightest grudge if we want God to forgive us of our sins.

Prayer:  Awesome Heavenly Father, thank You that You forgive my sins as I forgive those who sin against me.  I thank You Father that You sent Your Son to die for my sins.  I pray this in Jesus Name.  Amen.

Stay Blessed!

Feed My Sheep

Jesus tells us that if we love Him, we need to feed His sheep.  This means that once we believe that Jesus is our Lord and our Saviour, in order to demonstrate that we truly love HIm, we are responsible to feed His sheep.  

The Bible goes on to tell us that Jesus knows His sheep by name.  We are His sheep.  Therefore we cannot see someone hungry and not do anything about it.  We are truly our brother's keepers.

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, today I pray that You give me Your sheep to feed and that I do this willingly and in God's Name.  I pray that I may always see Your hungry sheep and have the heart to feed them!  I pray this in the Name of Jesus Christ my Lord and my Saviour.  Amen.

Stay Blessed!

We are Blessed!

We need to trust in God for everything.  He is in charge and He knows what we need and when we need it.  It is in believing that we will receive and in believing that God is our Creator and our Provider that He will provide for us.

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, thank You that You know me and that You will provide for me.  Today I pray Father that You will give me my daily bread.  I pray that You will forgive my sins as I forgive those who sin against me.  I pray this in the name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay Blessed!

God is Everlasting!

Prayer:  Father God, You are EVERYTHING to me!  I pray today Father that You bless me and be with me in everything I think, say and do.  I ask this in the name of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!  Amen.

Stay Blessed!

Understand God's will for our lives!

God created us.  He has a plan for us.  Too often we get caught up in spending time wondering what our purpose here on earth is.  What we are supposed to be doing with our lives.

We need to hand over the reigns of our life into God's hands.  We need to listen to His plan and to action it sooner rather than later.

We can do this through prayer and through daily reading of His word.

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, I pray today that You will take over my life.  I hand it to You.  I pray in Jesus Name that You will show me what to do with my life and what You want from me.  Amen!

Stay Blessed!

Understanding how great God is, this is the beginning of wisdom!

When we start to understand how GREAT, how AWESOME, how WONDERFUL is our God, then we are starting to gain wisdom. 

The Bible tells us many many times how to be wise.  The wise man builds his house upon the rock, the foolish man builds his house upon the sand.  

In the book of James he writes:  If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. James 1:5.

Therefore, let us ask God to show us today, how truly GREAT HE IS!  Let us place all our trust in HIM.

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, You who created all the heavens and the earth, I thank You for creating me.  I thank You for loving me.  Today Father, I ask that You show me Your glory.  That I may understand the magnitude of You truly are. Open my eyes to You; O father!   I ask this in the name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay blessed!

Jesus will come to us in the Heavens!

The Bible is very clear, Jesus ascended into Heaven and He sits at the right hand of God our Father.  What is also told to us is that Jesus will come again to this earth.  

As Christians, we know this.  What we do not know is the time or the day.  Therefore we need to be ready at all times.  Let us not put off knowing God, knowing His word and speaking to Him every day. 

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, thank You that You forgive our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.  Thank You that we can have a deep relationship with You.  Thank You that we can read our Bibles and learn Your word.  Today Father, please help me to be ready for Jesus' s second coming, no matter where or when.  I pray this in the name of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ of Nazareth.  Amen.

Stay Blessed! 

With God ALL things are possible!

As human beings, we daily face challenges which we think things are impossible.  However, God tells us over and over in the Bible that with Him, NOTHING is impossible!

What an awesome God!  We can trust in Him fully for everything!  Knowing that when we truly believe this statement, God can will do  and can do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING.  After all God made us in His image and He loves us!

We need to grow our belief in our truly amazing God and put all our trust in Him.  We can do this by reading His word daily and by praying to Him daily.

Prayer:  Father God,  I know that You are the Way, the Truth and the Life.  I thank You for this knowledge Father and ask that I will draw ever closer to You and to Jesus my Lord and Saviour.  I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.  Amen.

Stay Blessed!

All who are weary

God says that we should not be anxious about anything.  This is so true.  When we know that God loves us and cares very much for each and every one of us, we find a peace that is very hard to fathom.

So as children of the living God, we need to talk to God daily.  To tell Him all our cares and all thoughts.  We need to read His word daily so that He can give us His thoughts and messages.

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, I pray today that I may share all my thoughts, my worries, my daily requests with You.  I pray Father that You will hear me and give me Your peace.  I pray this in the name of my Lord and Saviour, Christ Jesus. Amen.

Stay Blessed!