Prepare your heart (Prepare your gift)
Good morning. I'm taking this month, Spain Kingdom, Reddy assistance. Let's just by looking at the Kingdom as a place where Jesus, the King of Kings rules and rain.
Has the types of today's message, prepare your heart. I recently discovered a lovely children's Christmas books, written by Joyce Meyers was published. This is growing up when we choose to be there is a point to start with this sunrise. It was Christmas season at every day saying on the whole time glistening glistening clothes Timothy play. She knows it.
Hey Lisa, I sparkled as she imagined how spectacular the play with bang. It would be her special gift. Christmas gift to Jesus. It would be perfect, but she calls will the rolls and then it's time for rehearsals to begin. Unfortunately things don't go smoothly as she expected the angel Gabriel. The goose is too loud.
Wish I could cut loose in that way.
Hey, he was disappointed, she wants to give it to you to be perfect. So she won't talk to try and fix the problems. It look like the rehearsals are finally going, well until one thing leads to another and it's a complete disaster and the section destroyed. A tear rolled down his cheek as she looked at the mess around her. The Nativity is completely ruined. Someone gets her a hug. And says, what I wanted everything to be perfect. She sniffled I'm sure that's what Mary and Joseph wanted to that first Christmas but things went perfect for them. I got them. but, you know, the one night
Hey nice. Thought for a moment and then huh. My screw wind. Jesus, she said finally understanding he was perfect. That's a Christmas story is all about. Haley, quadriceps to work fixing what she can fix up. Assassin in the Tennessee, Titans play Mary smiled at her. This is just, his name is Jesus.
He is Christ. The lord chasing Faith. Isn't he awesome? It wasn't perfect but somehow it was just fine. I love the messages from the restaurant, just the Christmas. First, the first one to go to mention today is it's not about the perfect performance. I'm talking about our Behavior now and how rubbish we can feel when we make mistakes and keep making them. It's not doing on fast for the right halt. I'm continuing to ask the Lord for help with that, because we depend on him to do it. It's just Paul to Preparing Your Heart for Jesus to rule and reign in it. That's a little such as recorded in 2 Corinthians. 9:12, my grace is sufficient for you. For my power is made perfect in weakness. In the Amplified that reads my grace is sufficient for you my love and kindness I'm I must say a more than enough always available. Regardless of the situation from my Pandora is being protected and is completed and shows itself most effectively in your weakness. That's a lot to take in so I'm going to read that again. My grace is sufficient for you, my love and kindness am I'm a see a moving enough? Always regardless of the situation for my power is being perfected. I just completed and shows itself most effectively in your weakness. When we know you've got a Heavenly Father, we not how love and he is the one perfect match who keeps to giving us when we all can stay because when Jesus died for us on the cross which we celebrated Easter and then he rose again. This is why I got cakes for giving us when we all the price has been paid in full. Haley. Hippo wants you to Performance because it has special gift to Jesus, but Jesus is not looking for perfection. He knows, we know, I wants us to come as we are. The best gift we can give Jesus is our heart. If you haven't done so already, I strongly recommend that you do. If you've already else Jesus to be Lord of your life and surrendered, your heart to him, then I suggest that we all ask him. What? Special gift, we can give him this year. By this, I mean, for example, set aside time to worship, listen to Jesus and just be with him in the busyness of Christmas, it can be Lynn. Even though we know him, he's the reason for the season.
It made me about creating a good habit or it might, if I have to dressing a bad habit with God's help, but I do suggest that we all think and pray about what gift we can give to Jesus this Christmas. Next times for mine, passage for today in Luke chapter 1 verses 26 to 38. And I'm reading from there go, the basic electronic equipment at the Hebrew Aramaic and Greek tax, which is an amplified to help us better, understand the meaning of the original word. The Knicks 1:26 238. Now, in the six-month, if Elizabeth pregnancy, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to the city in calendar. April natural to a man whose name was Joseph. A descendant of the House of David. I'm fudging snake was married. I'm coming to her. The angel said that she was pregnant with flexible. She said and catch Kathy considering what kind of greasing this was? The angel said, do not be afraid. Mary for you, have found favor with god. Listen Cassidy, you will conceive in your room and give birth to a son and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and Eminence will be cool. The son of the most high and the Lord, God will give him the Throne of his father David. And he will reign over the house of Jacob, Israel forever. I do if his kingdom, that shall be no end. Mary said to the angel, I will this piece since I am a virgin and have no intimacy with any mom. And the angel replied to her, the holy spirit will come upon you and the power of the most high will overshadow you like a cloud. So that reason the fuel Fitness child should be cool, the son of God. I'm twisting even your relative Elizabeth has conceived a son in her old age and she who was told by Aaron is now in her 6 months. So we thought nothing is forever shall be impossible. Then Mary said, behold I am a servant of the Lord may be done to me according to your word and the angel luncheon. Puppetry of long passage but it's important to get the contacts. What the Lord is saying today to my second point today is Luke one of the 30 do not be afraid. Play Angel Gabriel in. The children's story was too loud. They not married, I'm sure that Mary was grateful that the angels are just too old. And then there was the message to digest. Do not be afraid. This is such a key point when it comes to Preparing our hearts. When you think about repairing a Heart for Jesus to truly Rule and Ryan Reynolds.
When the angel told Mary to not be afraid. The meaning of the Greek word. For frayed include. Don't be alarmed or terrified. It's a strong word. I just mentioned in the daytime online Bible, study recently do not be afraid. They know it's a message that's given many times throughout the Bible. Some people like to say it's a proximately 365 * 150 day of the year on your translation exception. I like what one person said about it. I when I gave you that he counted the number of times in the Bible that it says, fennel do not be afraid, be anxious for nothing. Do not say, do not worry and others. As he said there is a loss of life or not and I haven't even covered all the way to not be afraid. Be of good courage. Be brave from the main point is not the exact number, but the fact that it's the most repeated come on and all, that's the Bible and perhaps the easiest to file Why does God tell us? Don't be afraid in one form or another so many times in the Bible because we need to hear it again and again and again. It's one thing to know something in your head. It's another to my Cheese's. I found some practices to choose, not to Fed. We got two different revelation of the truth of scripture. When we apply our head knowledge by acting on it by faith. In other words, before we see the desired outcome, As it says in Hebrews 11 verse 1, not faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of Things Not Seen. There's no shame in feeling fair, but it's so important not allowed to dictate our decisions. When we practice refusing, fair and smooth ride, it can help us in dealing with bigger issues. I know it's mentioned it before but some music, I will buy some Holiday Inn to Toronto and we went out to sea and Tower. Does a glass floor at changing 42 me to 1122 feet if you prefer the imperial system, approximately 14, large hippo. play Magic Knight the same as even one but I still couldn't persuade myself to the ground by A couple of months ago we went to Portsmouth and went up the Spinnaker tower on floor, 100. I've been soaking me about my expense at the Sands, how shortly before with a friend and someone else and I decided I should be able to work on the floor. Lamp.
My reasoning. I have some told me that was nothing to fear the Spanish, the power McDonald's floor, 288 phone. On principle. I wanted to go walk across it to practice refusing fair. To me it was about myself to lock. It will hold you. All right. Just woke on it. You can do that cuz I need to be negative about Pitbull. Ft beat yourself up, same things like they'll be so stupid.
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Romans 8:15, in the New American Standard Bible says, you have not received a spirit of slavery needing to Fair again. But you have received a spirit of his sons and daughters by which we cry out, Abba. Father, I bet it's the Aramaic word for father and Aramaic language.
Say, it's from the duffel and it's the enemy of our faith. As it says, in 2, Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love and of a sound mind. When were three afraid to do something. We know we should do. That's the time to stop and reflect on this scripture meditation on that gives us strength and courage. Remember, we can pass my face page. For example. God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love and of a sound mind that for I refuse to face.
Satan uses Fair, as a weapon to disrupt our faith. He wants us to question and doubt everything goes says to us. If he can get this to the point of them believe he can move us away from trusting God. Life can send us trouble at any time, but that's believe has we never have to be afraid of it. We can depend on clock to always be there when we need 10. Doesn't necessarily mean will always fail him, but he's promised to always be with us at it says 4:20 I love what it says in Psalms 26 from 56th Street. Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in you. Sometimes, we just need to keep it simple. That way, whenever I'm afraid, I will trust in you. If some of you who started the thing that's in your head, it's because it's a line from the song. You are my Hiding Place. Entrust Dynex trusting. God is much more powerful. The courage we receive from him, isn't you to the absence of fear that gives us the ability to move pasta? I think it's worth repeating. There's no shame in ceiling fan. We don't have to deny it just denied any place to dictate to us. Play legado anticipated as experiencing Fair. What's making it clear that it doesn't belong to us which is one of the Bible or another They can be experienced in so many different ways. Has, and always is,
The many times we see, don't be afraid in the Bible is backed up with many different reasons. Luke 1 verse 30. And the angel said to have do not be afraid Mary. So you have found favor with thought. This was the reason that God gave married to, not be afraid of the appearance of an Angel. What do you have to say to her? This would have to pay, what anchors, her soul, her mind, her will and emotions when dealing with an expected reaction of society, including Joseph her fiance at the news of her pregnancy. And the society and culture of the time she would have expected to be shamed and rejected as an unmarried mother. Oh yeah. And Luke phone when the angel appears to be pressed a cry ass to tell him that his wife, Mary's relative would buy him a son. Despite the fact that the angels in Luke 1 verse 13, for your prayer is heard and your wife, Elizabeth will buy you a son and you shall call his name, John. In other words, don't be afraid because your prayer has been answered your prayer that looks and was impossible. Matchless thinking has been answered. These are just two examples that show is the fact that look, the Lord gives us many sound reasons to, not fair, it doesn't mean that life will be a picnic. I think we all know that Mary, and Joseph have to travel to Bethlehem with Mary was heavily pregnant. And then there was no room at the Inn. A Jesus first called, with a feeding trough for animals. When Jesus is still very young, they fly to Egypt as refugees Zacharias and Elizabeth would clearly older parents, which brings a different set of challenges.
As I said earlier, the courage we receive from the Lord, isn't you to the absence of fear because of the ability to move?
Psalm 56 verse 3. Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in you. We have a clear choice that we can make when we experience Fair. An insightful Christ. I remember reading in a biography written by someone who is withered that trust was made for the dark time. Same option that trust was made for the dark time. Many Jay would have had me say this before but trust in my opinion, is the greatest gift that one person can give to another and it's usually built over time and chat experiences. Taking that time, did they rebuild our relationship with the Lord is what was Bill but trust that we need to help us to turn to him in the harness time when life is at its most difficult, I'm not turn away from him because we can't see him will necessarily feel him. That's when we trust in his word, which is eternal, as it says, in several places in the Bible for some place. I have full teeth and take the girls with us and the flower Fades, but the words of our God stands forever, That's a long time.
Luke 1 verse 38 and Mary said, behold I am the seven may be done to me according to your word. Married septic, God's Will and word for her. Regardless of whatever her feelings might have been. When we make a decision by some whatever, the Lord is Saint was like Mary. We don't see the beginning from the end, but we know the one who does
God is the Alpha and the Omega. The beginning and the end of Revelations, 22, Revelation 21 verse 6. Like Mary we just see how it's all going to turn out but when we say yes to God and our house to whatever he sent us, we can trust him to provide for us.
The place I want to reiterate to main points of me today. Then finish with a poem that will be familiar to some of you and we tried before but it's relevant today. The, my first point is it's not about perfect performance. It's about coming as we are to the Lord giving a hug and surrendering ourselves to him. I'm trusting that we all complete in him. I'm not just what makes of the Kingdom, ready? And the second point is, do not be afraid. This is Sookie to Preparing our hearts, to Jesus to truly Rule and Reign within us. if you're experiencing fit in any of your life, to you about it, sometimes our emotions can be overwhelming. I make it difficult to hear from the Lord, not to be good time to ask others for prayer. We can always also have a surprise. Anyway, you need it. Open opportunity for parallel to its if it would like it. But first, I'd like to finish with the poem, The Touch of the Master's Hand.
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$3 funks $3 but no from the room fall back. A gray-haired man came forward and picked up the phone and watching the dust from the Old Violin and tightening the least strength, he played a Melody, pure and sweet, as a caroling angel. The music's Taste of New York City with a voice that was quiet and live said, what's my fate for the Old Violin and he held it with the $1,000 and to make it team 2003, free thousands, 1000 twice. I'm trying. I'm gone said, hey. The people Chad, but some of them crying, we did not quite understand what changed? It was. Swift came the reply, the touch of the Master's Hand. The monster comes on the foolish crowd. Can never quite understand the worth of a soul and the change drawer by the touch of the Master's Hand. I strongly believe that many people present as well as size listening online or artists to the podcast, feel that you need a fresh touch from the Master's Hand, for whatever reason to help you prepare your heart for Him. Select Prime.
Father God, thank you with all my heart that you're here, and you always listen to a prize. Aren't you that one touch from? You is enough because you'll like your life itself, you are the source of life. Thank you that in your hands. You can take us. And what I think is true, we come with and you can bring out a unique song. Something that truly glorify PA. We surrender ourselves, a fresh to you, and ask you for that fresh. Tough be glorified in and through us will fit in Jesus precious name.
