Blessed New Year 2025 with Beloved Jesus

 

Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside, let us spend the night in the villages. Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom— there I will give you my love.

Song of Songs 7:11-12 

My beloved spoke and said to me, “Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, come with me.  See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.Song of Songs 2:10-12 

Take me away with you—let us hurry! Let the king bring me into his chambers.  We rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine.  How right they are to adore you!

Song of Songs 1:4 

 

Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned. 

Song of Songs 8:6-7

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon. Descend from the crest of Amana, from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon, from the lions’ dens and the mountain haunts of leopards.Song of Songs 4:8 

Song of Songs 8:14 

Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountains.

 Take me away with you—let us hurry! Let the king bring me into his chambers.  We rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine.  How right they are to adore you!

Song of Songs 1:4 

 Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

Song of Songs 2:3 

Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of incense.

Song of Songs 4:6 

 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to browse in the gardens and to gather lilies. I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine; he browses among the lilies. 

Song of Songs 6:2-3

How is your beloved better than others, most beautiful of women? How is your beloved better than others, that you so charge us?   My beloved is radiant and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.

 His mouth is sweetness itself; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.Song of Songs 5:9-10, 16 

*"When Jesus comes back faith shall become sight, and prayer will be praise forever. Love shall then reach its climax and be freed from the shadows of cloud. Then shall i serve and worship thee all the time. 

What a day that will be! so Lord Jesus make haste! Come quickly!! 

Amen! Even So come, Lord Jesus and until that glorious day May My Garden continually bear it's fruit for the delight of Your heart My Beloved Jesus........ 

 

The year of 2024 is ending.. One more day for new year.. You may be thinking what to say in my testimony? 

Remember, your story is unique. Share your life story to others as a thanks giving offering to God. 

Close this year as the most fulfilled and satisfied person in the whole universe, Because of Jesus died for you on the Old Rugged Cross and resurrected on the third day.. 

**When I wrote "Thank you Lord" I was sitting in the balcony of church hall. I was looking out over the congregation. I saw people standing and not singing. (Sometimes our todays songs are complicated) 

I thought of writing a simple song saying Thank you Lord. 

Psalms 100 says 'Enter His gates with thanksgiving and Enter His courts with Praise'.. 

Just Say to the Lord from the depth of your heart. 

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I come before you today

And there's just one thing that I want to say.... 

Thank you Lord

Thank you Lord

For all you've given to me

For all the blessings that I cannot see

Thank you Lord

Thank you Lord

With a grateful heart

With a song of praise

With an outstretch arm

I will bless your name. . .. *Don Moen

Let us thank God and others for everything. . . 

Remember "The Best things in our life are not things"

Thank you Lord .. 

Also thank you my brother/ Sister.. 

Jesus loves you... 

https://youtu.be/sax4aTgZ9dw?si=v7NKB-IEu50cTJkC

 

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Christmas is seeing the face of God.
Shepherds saw Jesus.
So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph and saw the baby lying in the manger. Luke 2:16
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Christmas is worshipping Jesus Christ
Wise men worshipped Jesus.

They went into the house, and when they saw the child with his mother Mary, they knelt down and worshiped him. They brought out their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and presented them to him. Matthew 2:11
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Christmas is coming back to God 

And so they left, and on their way they saw the same star they had seen in the East. When they saw it, how happy they were, what joy was theirs! It went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. Matthew 2:9-10
Wisemen went back from the Jerusalem and came to Bethlehem..

John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life". 

 

Blessed Day...

 

*Jesus had  no servants yet they called Him Master

Had no degree yet they called Him Teacher

Had no medicines yet they called Him Healer

He had no army yet kings feared Him

He won no military battles yet He conquered the world. 

He didn't lived in castle yet they called Him  Lord

He ruled no nations yet they called Him King

He committed no crime yet they crucified Him

He was buried in a tomb yet He lives today

His Kingdom is not of this world yet it lies within the hearts of those who believe in Him

He spoke of love and forgiveness and His, Words have transformed millions

He offers no material wealth yet we consider Him as the treasure of our lives. 

He promises no earthly power yet in His Name the powerless have found strength

Though He left no written words His messages have filled countless pages. *

He is The Way The Truth and the Life. 

His Name is Jesus Christ.. The Name above all Names.. Glory to God.... 

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Jesus, name above all names
Beautiful Saviour, Glorious Lord
Emmanuel, God is with us
Blessed Redeemer, Living Word
Jesus, name above all names
Beautiful Saviour, Glorious Lord
Emmanuel, God is with us
Blessed Redeemer, Living Word

Lord I praise your name
Jesus name above all names
Jesus, name above all names
Beautiful Saviour, Glorious Lord
Emmanuel, God is with us
Blessed Redeemer, Living Word
Blessed Redeemer, Living Word
Blessed Redeemer, Living Word

Selected... Anthony hopkins

Preparing our hearts to share news of Joy

Mary did you know. ..? 🎵

*The night is still when Joseph creaks open that stable door. As he does, a chorus of barn animals makes discordant note of the intrusion. The stench is pungent and humid, as there have not been enough hours in the day to tend the guests, let alone the livestock. A small oil lamp, lent them by the innkeeper, flickers to dance shadows on the walls. A disquieting place for a woman in the throes of childbirth. Far from home. Far from family.

They stare in awe at the baby Jesus, whose heavy eyelids begin to close. It has been a long journey. The King is tired. And so, with barely a ripple of notice, God stepped into the warm lake of humanity. Without protocol and without pretension. 

Where you would have expected angels, there were only flies. Where you would have expected heads of state, there were only donkeys, a few haltered cows, a nervous ball of sheep, a tethered camel. 

Except for Joseph, there was no one to share Mary’s pain, or her joy. Yes, there were angels announcing the Savior’s arrival—but only to a band of shepherds. And yes, a magnificent star shone in the sky to mark his birthplace—but only three foreigners bothered to look up and follow it. Thus, in the little town of Bethlehem . . . that one silent night . . . the royal birth of God’s Son tiptoed quietly by . . . as the world slept. 

* ken gire. Moments with the  Saviour

Preparing our hearts to Share good news

 

*Many years ago a remarkable Christmas card was published by the title, "If Christ Had Not Come.". The card pictured a minister falling asleep in his study on Christmas morning and then dreaming of a world into which Jesus had never come.

In his dream, he saw himself walking through his house, but as he looked, he saw no Christmas decorations, no Christmas tree, no wreaths, no lights, no crèche, no Christmas cards, and no Christ to comfort and gladden hearts or to save us. He then walked onto the street outside, but there was no church building.. when he came back and sat down in his library, he realized that every book about our Savior had disappeared. There were no carols or Christian music on the radio and no choirs or Christmas concerts on television.

The minister dreamed that the doorbell rang and that a messenger asked him to visit a friend's poor, dying mother. He reached her home, and as his friend sat and wept, he said, "I have something here that will comfort you." He opened his Bible to look for a familiar promise, but it ended with Malachi. There was no Christmas story, no angelic chorus, no shepherds or Wise Men, no Sermon on the Mount, no parables, no miracles, no "Come to me all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." There was no gospel, no light of the world, no "God so loved the world", no Lord's Prayer, and no promise of hope and salvation, and all he could do was bow his head and weep with his friend and his mother in bitter despair.

Two days later he stood beside her coffin and conducted her funeral service, but there was no message of comfort, no words of a glorious resurrection, and no thought of a mansion awaiting her in heaven. There was only "dust to dust, and ashes to ashes," and one long, eternal farewell. Finally he realized that Christ had not come, and burst into tears, weeping bitterly in his sorrowful dream. There would be no resurrection, and no hope of the kingdom of heaven and an age to come.

Then suddenly he awoke with a start, and a great shout of joy and praise burst from his lips as he heard his choir singing these words in his church nearby:

O come, all ye faithful,
joyful and triumphant,
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.
Come and behold him,
born the King of angels,
O come let us adore him,
Christ the Lord.

What if Christ had not come for us? What would our lives be like? Would Christ be missed? Would our lives go on as they are without a missing a beat, and be filled up with other interests and distractions from Christ?

Let us be glad and rejoice today, because Christ has come. And let us remember the proclamation of the angel: "I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you;He is Christ the Lord" (Luke 2:10,11)

*Streams in the Desert