Advent
2025
Isn't it that time?...the anticipation of Christmas, I mean
every store has been decorated for Christmas since before Thanksgiving.
But the day after it is the full onslaught of everything Christmas!
I try not to decorate or listen to or watch Christmas until December 1st! It is hard when the first Sunday of Advent
falls in November!
But it is in the air!
I know people who have been in full Christmas mode for weeks now!
What is it we anticipate? What are we getting excited for? gifts? Celebration?
The season just oozes joy, festive energy and anticipation.
For Christians around the world our expectations also bring the word Advent: The arrival of....the coming of, expectation of the coming...
In our lives, as believers, it means anticipation of the birth of Christ...or more apt, the celebration of the coming of the Christ child and the anticipation of His second coming.
But again, I ask, what is the anticipation for?
Gifts? Celebration?
The greatest gift, the only gift that really matters, is the one God and His only Son in infinite love for humanity gave to save all of us from our own spiral of sin.
📖Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst. 1 Timothy 1:15
📖 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. Romans 6:10
When we confess we are sinners in need of saving, believe that God gave us His only Son to die for those sins and defeat death by rising again and we accept Christ as our Lord, the gift we receive is eternal, it will not break, get old, or spoil.
📖 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9
📖 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
That love gives us more than Salvation from sin, if we accept what God's love has done for us we will have the gift of eternal life when we are done on this earth.
If you leave a gift under the tree... we don't accept it as a gift, we don't open it. It sits there, it doesn't do anything for you. You can say "oh I have a gift" but you haven't truly received it until you open it, accept it for what it is and take it into your heart, your life.
Salvation is the GIFT to end all gifts.
This is the gift that keeps on giving!
Once we accept the gift of salvation we receive so much more!
Hope Peace Joy Love
But it is in the air!
I know people who have been in full Christmas mode for weeks now!
What is it we anticipate? What are we getting excited for? gifts? Celebration?
The season just oozes joy, festive energy and anticipation.
For Christians around the world our expectations also bring the word Advent: The arrival of....the coming of, expectation of the coming...
In our lives, as believers, it means anticipation of the birth of Christ...or more apt, the celebration of the coming of the Christ child and the anticipation of His second coming.
But again, I ask, what is the anticipation for?
Gifts? Celebration?
The greatest gift, the only gift that really matters, is the one God and His only Son in infinite love for humanity gave to save all of us from our own spiral of sin.
📖Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst. 1 Timothy 1:15
📖 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. Romans 6:10
When we confess we are sinners in need of saving, believe that God gave us His only Son to die for those sins and defeat death by rising again and we accept Christ as our Lord, the gift we receive is eternal, it will not break, get old, or spoil.
📖 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9
📖 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
That love gives us more than Salvation from sin, if we accept what God's love has done for us we will have the gift of eternal life when we are done on this earth.
If you leave a gift under the tree... we don't accept it as a gift, we don't open it. It sits there, it doesn't do anything for you. You can say "oh I have a gift" but you haven't truly received it until you open it, accept it for what it is and take it into your heart, your life.
Salvation is the GIFT to end all gifts.
This is the gift that keeps on giving!
Once we accept the gift of salvation we receive so much more!
This season of Advent we are looking at the gifts
of Advent, that come with
our gift of Salvation.
Hope Peace Joy Love
Hope Light the 1st
purple
There was hope in the prophecy
📖 For to
us a child is born, to
us a son is given, and the
government will be on his shoulders. And
he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting
Father, Prince of Peace Isaiah 9:6There is Hope for today
📖 Praise be to the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has
given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and
into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This
inheritance is kept in heaven for you, 1 Peter 1:3-4
There is Hope for tomorrow
📖 My Father’s house
has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going
there to prepare a place for you? 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will
come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. John 14:2-3📖 “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and
I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am
going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. John 14:28
🙏🏼Prayer:
Heavenly Father thank you for the gift of your Son Jesus, His sacrifice on the cross, His death and resurrection covers all our sins. I pray that ALL here have received the gift of salvation and eternal life. I pray that no matter the circumstances of our lives right now we can take the gift of HOPE and find much to look forward to and to be grateful for. Amen❤️
Heavenly Father thank you for the gift of your Son Jesus, His sacrifice on the cross, His death and resurrection covers all our sins. I pray that ALL here have received the gift of salvation and eternal life. I pray that no matter the circumstances of our lives right now we can take the gift of HOPE and find much to look forward to and to be grateful for. Amen❤️
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