The beautiful Miracle of Christmas

i hate santa

 ....... i hate anything that would attempt to take the attention and glory from whom it is due: JESUS!

Jesus is enough.    (did you see the period?)     ... a real miracle... the real miracle of Christmas...

Santa is the GRINCH that stole Christmas.... stole the focus off of the KING of KINGS (JESUS) and onto himself and/or material possessions.

Saint Nick would be heart broken at our american Christmas... he loved GOD...he wanted God's name to be famous .... he had God's heart for the poor and in the name of JESUS he gave to the desperatly poor... he didn't just give a little extra that Christmas to the poor.... he gave ALL of his inheritance.... he was eternatlly minded... that is why his story got passed down and he got sainted by the church of the time... because he was RADICAL... HE RADICALLY showed God's love. Then people, with our natural selfishness and greed... started to make it about us. We can't stand that the focus just be on JESUS.

Think about this if the wise men were to visit your home on Christmas morning... what do you think they would think?  People sitting around giving each other things to add to our abundance of other things .... Or adults lying to their kids about some fake story when they know the real story. The wise men came with GIFTS for the KING not for each other... they gave their best to HIM. They traveled miles.... they were radical.

Imagine Jesus showing up at your door anytime during this month, or Christmas eve, or Christmas morning? What would he say? psstt.... He is there....

Do you think HE wants to share your attention with the stuff you are giving each other.... or a made up fairy tale? Do you think he deserves that?

I hate that we "Christians" are "okay" with celebrating anyone or anything but JESUS!

I didn't always hate santa... but the more i wash my heart and mind in God's word i am seeing that GOD wants ALL of our celebration, adoration, worship, .... all of us! And He plans for the wealth He gives us advanced HIS kingdom not ours.

HE is worthy of it all. AND there is a joy that comes from doing what we were created to do.... WORSHIPING HIM.  Jesus is enough. Jesus is my everything!

Don't stress on what you are going to get your already way spoiled children this year (don't worry i know mine are too) but think about how you can turn the focus off the gifts, off the man in the red, and onto to whom ALL GLORY IS DUE!!!!

Wonderful, Counselor, King of Kings

SO THE POINT IS: He ONLY is worthy of ALL of our attention and NOTHING/NO ONE (made up or real) deserves glory..

The Bible says to love GOD so much that even the love you have for your family would look like hate compared to the love you have for GOD.  So no one should be surprised that i hate santa.

We are having fun celebrating JESUS this season.... i am in awe of His love and the miracle that GOD did for us... coming as a human in such a humble form... as a baby... wow.... WOW..... overwhelmed....

HE IS AMAZING AND WORTHY of ALL OF OUR ATTENTION.

what a mighty God

What a mighty God HE is! Every effort on our own is meaningless. Only by His voice do mountains tremble, do trees dance.

He could pour manna from the sky for these orphans but how loving He is to let us be a part of HIS marvelous plan.

This past weekend people from all over this city said YES lord to what He was prompting their hearts to do and they joined Him. As one body with one purpose we servered together our KING.

And He rescued the orphans.... at the Saint Nick's Christmas Fair around $13,000 was raised to buy clothes, shoes, toiletries, school supplies, candy and a toy for hundreds of orphans, to help build a home for impoverished widows and orphans, and to help needy women start a business that will help them provide for their family for a life time.

I am overwhelmed by HIS provision!

Also today we got a call that we can use the empty Kroger on 460 for Proceeds for Poverty. WOW!

HE is amazing... i feel so overwhelmed and humbled to be a witness to HIS loving hand.

My God is able. - Have faith.... put your TRUST in HIM!

Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. 

Psalm 20:7

(my peeps- gifts from GOD)