Our hope is in YOU!

 Dear Christ followers, as we approach the celebration of the birth of our LORD and SAVIOUR, Jesus Christ, I too pray that our GOD of hope will fill you all with HIS joy and HIS peace.

We live in the hope that our SAVIOUR will return soon in the clouds to fetch us home to be with HIM in Heaven.

Our hope is in Jesus and it is to HIM that we need to look this Christmas.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU that my hope is in YOU.  I thank YOU for YOUR grace and favour in giving us a SAVIOUR who has saved us from our sins and made us justified before YOU.  I humbly thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay hopefully Jesus Blessed today!

Love one another!

 Dear Christ followers, in order to be a true follower of Christ, we need to be more like Jesus each and every day.

We need to love everyone the way Jesus loved us.  Jesus did not distinguish between who sinned more or who sinned less when HE died on the cross for us.

Jesus died for each and every one of us.

That is why Jesus told HIS disciples that we are to be examples to the world in the way that we do not differentiate between any people. 

This means that all people who accept Jesus are children of GOD.  Therefore, we need to set the example and love everyone that Jesus loves.

This is difficult to do, but as we come to know the character of Jesus and understand HIS ways, we will be able to become far more amenable to loving people the way that Jesus loves us all.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I humbly pray that YOU show me how to love as YOU love.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay lovingly Jesus Blessed today!

Part of GOD's chosen people

 Dear Christ followers, when we accept Jesus, we are then a part of GOD's chosen people.  We become holy and dearly loved.  As such we are called on to become more and more like Jesus in every aspect of our lives.

We are required to be compassionate, kind, humble, gentle and patient.

The area that I often battle with is patience.  I can become very impatient quite quickly. 

In the areas where we fall short of the perfect holiness of Jesus Christ, we need to pray to our FATHER in Heaven.

Firstly, let us pray for the wisdom to see others in their true sufferings.  This helps us to be more compassionate.  Let us ask our FATHER to make us more kind.  Humility is also a great asset.  We should always think less of ourselves and more of others.  

And lastly let us ask our FATHER to make us more patient towards each other in every way.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I am so blessed to believe in Jesus Christ as my true Saviour.  I thank YOU for YOUR grace and mercy in sending Jesus to save me.  FATHER give me the wisdom to become more and more like Jesus.  Especially FATHER give me the wisdom to be patient with others in every circumstance.  I humbly pray this in the Holy name of Jesus Christ.  My Redeemer.  Amen.

Stay faithfully Jesus Blessed today!

Believe in also in ME!

 Jesus has not left us nor forsaken us.  As Christ followers we are never alone in this world.

This is our greatest comfort in times of trials and tribulations.  We are not alone.  All we have to do is to accept Jesus as our LORD and SAVIOUR.  

Jesus went on to tell HIS disciples that when HE left the earth for Heaven, the Comforter - the Holy Spirit- would be coming to earth to be with us on earth.

The belief in Jesus goes much further.  Jesus lives in our hearts.  GOD lives in our hearts and the Holy Spirit lives in us and convicts us.

Whenever we have doubts that Jesus is with us, all we have to do is to ask GOD to fill us anew with HIS Holy Spirit.  We are pretty leaky vessels, so a daily request to our FATHER in Heaven should always be in our prayers.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, today I humbly ask that YOU fill me anew with YOUR Holy Spirit.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay faithfully Jesus Blessed today!

Let us rejoice!

 GOD has made everything.  And GOD has made it well.  The heavens declare the glory of the LORD.  GOD knows the name of each and every star and calls them all out by name.

And the reason we are on earth, for those of us who may still be wondering, is to give glory to the LORD.

One day every knee will bow to Jesus and everyone will call HIM LORD.

So why should we not start now?  Today, let us worship, honour and praise our Mighty FATHER in Heaven for HIS grace and favour.  Let us give all the glory to GOD today.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, today I bow down and worship YOU.  FATHER show me how to bring honour and praise to YOU today in all that I think, say and do.  I humbly ask this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus blessed today!

An inheritance that will never spoil

 Dearest Christ followers, once we have become children of GOD, we have an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade and that inheritance is kept in heaven for us by Jesus.

That is why as children of GOD, we need not fear death on earth.  Death on earth means a life spent with our FATHER in Heaven.

Our FATHER in Heaven loves us, and HE has to be praised and worshiped for what HE has so graciously given us.  We cannot earn our inheritance.  We cannot work to receive it.  All we have to do is to believe in Jesus Christ as our Redeemer.  We need to repent of our sins and we are thereafter justified through the blood of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Let us bow down today and worship our FATHER and give HIM praise and honour and glory because of HIS great mercy towards us.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, today I have such an attitude of gratitude for YOUR great mercy bestowed on such a sinner as me.  I thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay gratefully Jesus Blessed today!

Be strong and of good courage!

 When we walk with the LORD we have nothing to fear.  But when we do not walk according to the Will of our FATHER, we have everything to fear.

Let us "right size" our FATHER in Heaven.

Our FATHER created the entire universe and everything in it.  

I do not know if you had the same as me as a little girl.  We always said "my dad is bigger than your dad" whenever we felt threatened.  But as children of GOD, this is a thousand percent true.  Our FATHER is bigger than anything we can imagine. 

Our FATHER can send in one angel who can defeat 185 000 people in one night.

And that is only one angel.  Can you imaging if our FATHER sent a legion of angels?

Today, if we are in obedience to GOD, let us bow down and worship our FATHER who goes before us.  We do not have anything to fear when our FATHER is with us.

And we know that Jesus told us that HE will never leave us nor forsake us.  How very blessed we are indeed to be children of GOD.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, today I humbly thank YOU that I have nothing to fear because no matter what situation I am in, YOU are with me.  I humbly thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  My Redeemer and my LORD and my Saviour.  Amen.

Stay courageously Jesus Blessed today!

Wait on the LORD!

 When we wait on the LORD, we know that the LORD will be with us as we wait.  When we rush ahead and try to do things in our way in our time, then things are usually a mess and we feel tired and weary and unable to cope.

So today, dearest Christ followers, let us resolve to pray to our FATHER in Heaven to show us when we should do things and how we should do things.  And then, let us wait on the LORD.

Isaiah writes above, that in this manner, we will renew our strength and not grow weary.  We will walk and not be faint.  

GOD always keeps HIS promises.  Let us put our trust in HIM for every aspect of our lives.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU that I am able to give all my plans to YOU and please help me to wait on YOU and not to rush ahead.  I pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay patiently Jesus Blessed today!

I wait for the LORD!

 Our hope is in Jesus.  That is what it means to have faith.  We hope for that which is yet to come.

The writer of Hebrews 11:1. -  "Faith is the things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."HE has gone to Heaven to prepare a place for all believers.  

Not only that, but in Heaven we will no longer be subject to death or illness or grief.

In Heaven we shall be with our FATHER, we shall be with Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

And Heaven is eternity.

The Holy Spirit living in me earnestly yearns for all of the above.  Not that I do not want to serve the LORD by living out my life here on earth and doing the things that GOD has planned for my life, but I know that I am ready to go to Heaven and be with my LORD and SAVIOUR when I die.

Thus, as the Psalmist says above " I wait for the LORD, my soul waits and in HIS Word I hope."

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER I wait for YOU and my soul waits and in YOUR WORD I hope.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay hopefully Jesus Blessed today!

Saved by Grace through faith!

 When Jesus died on that Cross for you and me, it was done out the Grace of GOD.  We are saved through grace alone by faith alone.

We cannot work our way to salvation.  It is an impossible task.  We are sinful and we fall way short of the Holiness of GOD.  

That is why we need a Saviour.  Our Saviour is Jesus Christ alone.  There is no one else who can get us into Heaven.

As Paul puts it so well here.  Grace is a free gift from GOD to anyone who believes in Jesus Christ as the Messiah.  "Lest anyone should boast".

Today, if you have not done so, believe in Jesus Christ.  Repent and be saved.

Tomorrow may be too late!

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU for YOUR Grace and favour.  I thank YOU that I believe that Jesus Christ is YOUR Son who died on that Cross to save me from my sins.  FATHER forgive me today for my sins as I forgive all those who sin against me.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay graciously Jesus Blessed today!

Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven!

 Seek first the Kingdom of GOD and HIS righteousnss. 

This is a commandment from Jesus to his disciples and those to whom He was teaching.

When we follow this, our lives, although not trial free, become much more orderly.  We nee to put GOD first in everything we think, we say and we do.  Or our lives become chaotic and disorderly.

We serve a GOD of order.  In order to verify this, all we have to do is to look around us.  Nothing is random or chaotic, not in the universe, nor on earth.

Today, let us get our priorities straight and first seek the Kingdom of GOD and all other things will fall into place.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU that I am able to freely seek YOUR Kingdom first.  FATHER guide me to do this in all aspects of my life.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!