#Birth of Jesus

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Matthew 1:18-25 (NIV). [18] “This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. [19] Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. [20] But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. [21] She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” [22] All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: [23] “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”). [24] When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. [25] But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.”

“Good News of Great Joy” By In Touch Ministries:

“Through Jesus, we receive eternal life—and divine joy.”

“When an angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds, he gave them good news of great joy for all people: The long-awaited Savior was born! Then the angel was suddenly “joined by a vast host of others—the armies of heaven—praising God” (Luke 2:13 NLT).

The good news they proclaimed that day had to do with more than just Jesus’ birth. It anticipated His sinless life, which qualified Him to be God’s sacrificial lamb. It looked ahead to His crucifixion and resurrection, which signaled the Father’s acceptance of Christ’s payment for our sins. It also encompassed His future ascension into heaven (Mark 16:19). And it envisioned Pentecost, when the Spirit would indwell believers (Joel 2:28; Acts 2:17), as well as the time Jesus would return as King. The angels rejoiced because salvation was here (2 Corinthians 6:2).

Jesus spoke about joy because He wanted us to experience the satisfaction that comes from a relationship with Him. Such profound contentment isn’t dependent upon outward circumstances; rather, it is the fruit of the Holy Spirit in you.

The angels in heaven rejoiced at the announcement of Jesus’ birth, and the shepherds praised God. Are you experiencing the divine joy that overflows from a Spirit-filled life?”

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The IDF wishes everyone a merry Christmas! Nothing shows Christmas spirit like bombing the birthplace of Jesus. /s

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King James Bible for Game Boy.

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"O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens." Psalm 8:1 ESV 🌍👑🌟✞"

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!" Luke 2:14 ESV 🌍🕊️🫶 ✞

I remember my first Christmas with You,

filled with new joy, reading my first Bible on Christmas Eve.

Your Word coming into my soul, breathing life into me.

Now I look back on my one year of being alive in You.

Even when the rain pours out its hardships, You'll never leave.

O' how grateful I am that, Jesus, You'll be with me

You'll abide in me as I in You.

You came all the way to Your Earth so humble,

clothed in swaddling cloth, glory, righteousness, and true love.

God's life that He would suffer for us, more than the eye could see-

You came to save the sinner's soul from stumble.

O' how I look at Your glory set above the heavens,

wishing You were here, but realising that You always have been.

You cause all sin, evil, and the darkness of this fallen world to tumble.

Now everyone from across the depths of the earth, can sing:

"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,

Who was and is and is to come" ♫

O' the new life, salvation, peace and joy You bring.

Let us praise and honor Your name forever nightly

and daily, seeing the radiance of God's glory has shone

into our lives with the life, fullness, flourishment and growth of a new Spring.

Thank You, LORD, for our Savior for eternity.

He will live with us forever, We must make His glory known.

A poem that the Holy Spirit helped me write for Christmas, hoping it helps you and that everyone has a joyful day in remembering our Saviour, Christ Jesus' birth, thank You 🌿YHWH🌿. 📃🕊️❤️‍🩹✞

Bible References: Revelation 4:8, Luke 2:7, Hebrews 1:3 & John 15:4 📄👑✞

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The Three Caballeros as the Three Wise Men along with their nephews as shepherds visiting the Savior - Duckverse in History - My Version - Repost of my drawing - Quack Pack AU and Three Caballeros - Duckverse

Published on December 27, 2024.

Merry Christmas everyone! I'm not currently in a position to upload new drawings until I'm done, so I'll definitely upload some drawings I did back in January, but it's fitting for this holiday because this is the reason we celebrate Christmas, and it's about celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Of course, not only Christians celebrate Christmas, but it's mostly a Christian holiday. I'm also posting this on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of The Three Caballeros' first appearance.

 "And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.“(Matthew 2:11)

I haven’t done Three Caballeros for a long time, but since the survey showed me to draw Three Caballeros, it will be.

Yes, in the Bible, more precisely in the New Testament and the Gospel according to Matthew, three wise men (according to some three kings) who are supposedly astrologers and magicians, went to visit the Holy Land to bring gifts to the Savior, that is, Jesus Christ who was born in Bethlehem, in stable, swaddled in a manger by his mother Mary. The three wise men brought them gold, incense, and myrrh. And those wise men are called Gaspar (or Caspar), Melchior, and Balthasar. The symbolism of the three is very well known so I used that for our heroes the Three Caballeros to be in those roles. Except in the Bible, they are not mentioned anywhere else, so it is uncertain who is who. Donald is Gaspar and wears gold, Panchito is Melchior and wears myrrh and Jose is Balthazar who wears incense, at least in my version or how they play the part. And they take it to the Savior Jesus Christ. I drew them wearing traditional clothing as worn at the time of Jesus’ birth (1st century BC and 1st century AD) in Judea, in the Middle East. Donald is said to be from Persia, Panchito is from Yemen or Arabia, and Jose Carioca is from Ethiopia, which is where the three wise men supposedly came from.

Besides them, I also drew their nephews, Donald’s nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck and Jose’s nephews Zico and Zeca Carioca as shepherds, that is, they play the role of shepherds. Luke’s Gospel from the New Testament mentions that the angels told the shepherds to come and worship the Savior and the shepherds went to the Savior and worshiped him. So both Donald’s and Jose’s nephews will go and they are wearing shepherd’s clothing as worn at the time (yes even though they are teenagers and these versions are from my version of the Quack Pack, they are still wearing the clothing of Jesus’ time). There are also sheep and lambs from the Middle East accompanying them, and the wise men riding a camel and an elephant standing behind them. And there is the Angel Duck (to take from Donald’s Better Self who is Donald’s conscience and Donald’s guardian angel) who leads them to the manger where the Lord Jesus Christ is. Glory to God who was born and who came to save us from our sins! Amen.

 Once again I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year as well as a Happy Epiphany! And sorry about some things I did wrong in this drawing and just to say that I am a believer and I believe in God the Savior! And yes, I’m not the only one who drew the Three Caballeros as the Three Wise Men, there are already those drawings on the subject, I just did it in my own way.

I hope you like this drawing and feel free to like and reblog this! But please don't copy this or copy my ideas without my permission. Thank you! Merry Christmas to everyone! And happy 80th anniversary to The Three Caballeros and happy birthday to Panchito!

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Devoted To God 

MEMORY VERSE OF THE WEEK

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+ 1 Corinthians 16:14:��Let all that you do be done in love.

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VERSE OF THE DAY 

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+ Deuteronomy 7:4, for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. 

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** SAY THIS BEFORE YOU READ; HERE’S SOME CHRISTIAN TRUTHS **

I AM RIGHTEOUS

I AM DEVOTED TO GOD

I AM FULL OF PEACE

I AM HUMBLE

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READ TIME: 7 Minutes & 5 Seconds

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THOUGHTS:

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  We don’t realize how things can change our perspective or our ways. We often think that it's our thinking, but sometimes it’s the people we are around that cause us to turn the other way; the Israelites were a very stubborn stiff neck people who loved to do what they wanted and not do what the lord wanted sometimes we can think that making friends with the world is okay. Still, God wants us to know it isn’t. 

    The world has its views on God, and it has its views on what they think of a godly man or woman of God; it has been shown in the word multiple times how being around the wrong people can cause your heart to turn away from God. 

  The Lord gave them a stern warning. He said they will have you serving their gods, my anger will burn against you, and I will destroy you; he told them exactly what would happen, but they wouldn’t listen. Sometimes, we can want something so badly that we don’t see it as a stronghold; we don’t see it as a distraction or a trap of the enemy. 

  1 Kings 11:2 They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. 

 

1 Kings 11:4 As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David, his father, had been.

 

1 Kings 11:6 So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord; he did not follow the Lord completely, as David his father had done.

 

These verse shows us that he knew that this could happen. He was told not to intermarry, but Solomon's lust became his downfall. He allowed his foreign wives to turn his heart, and he couldn’t be devoted to God any longer because he had given his time to their gods. He couldn’t be what his father was or what he was at one time because he had too much love for the other women and did evil in the sight of the lord. He did not follow the lord. Ultimately, he couldn’t. This shows we can’t serve two masters; the word tells us that, too. 

  Matthew 6:24 No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

      When we fall into sin, we forget about the goodness of God. We forget what he gave and has done for us because we are to focus on the here and now, what has God done for you, what he has done that you can remember; just like the Israelites, we forget because it is easy to do that than to follow God and hear him when he speaks. 

  Deuteronomy 6:15 for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land.

     God is such a jealous God. He doesn’t want our time shared with anyone, and he doesn’t most certainly want us to find love with other things. As we grow in God, we realize he wants us to be devoted to him, and sometimes we might find it hard to be devoted to him, but as we stand on his word and we communicate and build a relationship with him, we start to grow more into Him, and we start to be more dedicated to being around him more, we start to be devoted to God. 

   James 4:4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God

        This verse is telling us we can’t be friends with the world and with God; it creates hostility towards God, and we become an enemy of God as well; we don’t ever want to be an enemy of God; a lot of us don’t understand how great of a weight this place on our friendship with God. We must understand that having friendships or relations with someone who’s of the world can cause you to turn away from God. Look at King Solomon; he let his lust blind him; don’t allow friendship to blind you. 

   *** Today, we learned about how having relations or friendship with the world can cause us to leave God or cause us not to be so devoted to God; it’s so easy to do, to try to have a connection with someone who’s in the world can ultimately cause us to lose or connection with God. Just like King Solomon got his warning, so have we; there’s no way around it; no matter how much you try, one will falter. 

  1 John 2:15-16 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

    We can’t love the things of the world and love God; we must choose; the word is telling us that if we love the world, we don’t love God because the things in this world can only lead us away from God , this world only wants to satisfy their flesh and do things here for the here and now. Still, the things here will fade away and won’t last forever. God wants us to be devoted to him and nothing else. If you feel you have allowed the things in this world to steer you away, ask God to help you return to him, and he will help you, but you must first let go of the world. ©Seer~ Prophetess Lee

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PRAYER

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Heavenly Father, we thank you for being our shepherd and being our guided lord; we want to let go of the things of this world; please show us how lord gives us strength to be dedicated to you and you alone; lord, we give you our mind body and soul we ask you to forgive us if we have been devoted to things in this world and not you. Lord, every day we want to live a holy life, and we are so grateful for what you have done in our life, in Jesus' Name, Amen 

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REFERENCES 

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+ Luke 16:9 And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of the wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they will receive you into the eternal dwellings.

 

+ Galatians 1:10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.

 

+ Joshua 24:19-20 Then Joshua said to the people, “You will not be able to serve the Lord, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgression or your sins

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FURTHER READINGS 

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Proverbs 2

Luke 10

1 Corinthians 9 

Malachi 1 

Ezekiel 33

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[palatinewolfsblog]

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox;

that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”

C.K. Chesterton.  

Closed Society (for my dear friend @rubenesque-dollyd-93 ).

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[walkswithmyfather]

“As you enter into this time of waiting and celebration, here are Bible verses you can read, study, and reflect on — whether quietly to yourself or together as a family. These verses will take you through some of the Old Testament prophecies of Jesus’s birth, into the story of the Gospels, and then to later reflections by Paul and other apostles — so you can experience the full journey of God’s people across the centuries described in our Scriptures.”

—Bible Gateway

[Click on the link to read much more! Merry and Blessed Christmas to you! 🙏🕊️🙌]

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Merry Christmas Everyone! 😌👋✌️

We..just wanted to wish you all a merry christmas..

We hope you alll have aa wonderful christmas day and have fun spending timee with family and friends.

We hope you all have a blessed day as well.

Dont forget to praise the lord and celebrate the birth of jesus christ.

Do not forget to fill up not too much but just enough food. While we celebrate this holiday cheer.

Remember give thanks as well to the lord on this blessed day while everyone, sits so nice and cozy next to the fire.

Merry christmas to everyone! may God bless you all!

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Israeli forces set up checkpoints and other restrictions, preventing Palestinian Christians from visiting Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

#christmas

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Adoration of the Shepherds, 1617 by Gerrit van Honthorst

(1617, Öl auf Leinwand)

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