{"id":17517,"date":"2025-12-03T21:51:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/?p=17517"},"modified":"2025-12-07T21:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:52:01","slug":"this-december-this-christmas-love-is-born-in-our-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/this-december-this-christmas-love-is-born-in-our-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"THIS DECEMBER! THIS CHRISTMAS: LOVE IS BORN IN OUR HEARTS!\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>THIS DECEMBER! THIS CHRISTMAS: LOVE IS BORN IN OUR HEARTS! \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;. . . 10 And the angel said unto them, FEAR NOT: for, behold, I bring you GOOD TIDINGS of GREAT JOY, which shall be to all people. 11 For unto you is BORN THIS DAY in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord . . .&#8221;<\/i> <b>Luke 2:8-24.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Love is the essence of Christmas. That&#8217;s what makes month December a very special month and more so, in a dual essence in context:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"3\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"> It&#8217;s a cooling point of all the experience of the other previously held months in the Julian and Gregorian calendar &#8211; and as it marks the celebrating and commemorating of the love of God after the various challenging times in the year to most people in respective ways; \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"3\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"> And it also marks a refreshing point to take stock, evaluates, synergies and strengthens oneself in order to take on a new stand in the grace of love, especially for the unknown coming year.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">And when each of the spectrums mentioned above becomes an essence that&#8217;s built on love, being pursuit by love,\u00a0being plan by love and being purpose by love, we act knowingly by awakening our Father God of love, to enable Him ensure and assure His love essence to us and through us and to all of mankind for His Kingdom cause.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">And the knowing and understanding of times and reasons for the season, which is about the birth of Christ Jesus, and termed Christmas, a yearly [an annual] celebration and commemoration to enact and authenticate the God&#8217;s love in Christ Jesus, and His redemption cause for the good and goodness of all mankind, and event that&#8217;s irrespective of class, status, gender, colour, kindred, tongue, nation and people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">For Jesus loves us as much as the Father God loves us. He&#8217;s the expression of the Father God&#8217;s love. Hence, His birth, which this December month is accredited to for Christmas, is the birth of love. And we need to have our being experienced the rebirth of love instead of nursing and expressing hatred, wickedness, anger, bitterness, evil and such like depraved state in our hearts &#8211; a deprave and inhumane state that&#8217;s without God to ensure and assure the presence of love. Know today that God loves you. He loved us so much that He died for the sake of\u00a0love, and in love, He redeemed us through the sacrifice of His blood on the cross, sealing His\u00a0love for us forever.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;I have LOVED you just as the Father has LOVED Me; remain in My LOVE [and do not DOUBT My LOVE for you]&#8221; <\/i><b>John 15:9\/Amplified.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who LOVED us and WASHED us from our sins in His own blood, [6] and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen&#8221; <\/i><b>Revelation 1:5-6\/NKJV.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;And they sang a new song, saying: \u201cYou are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have REDEEMED us to God by Your blood Out of every TRIBE and TONGUE and PEOPLE and NATION, 10 And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall REIGN on the earth&#8221;<\/i> <b>Revelation 5:9-10\/NKJV.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">God is love. And for Love and in love He sent Jesus to express His love and nature, and the principles of love to humanity. Jesus came by love, lived by love and died by love and for love. And upon love, as by this December, in this Christmas, love is being celebrated and commemorated in the grace. God&#8217;s love in Christ Jesus wasn&#8217;t hidden but was demonstrated and showcased while we were yet in sin and are sinners. That&#8217;s the awesomeness of love beyond human comprehension.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;But God DEMONSTRATES His own LOVE toward us, in that while we were STILL sinners, Christ DIED for us&#8221;<\/i> <b>Romans 5:8\/NKJV.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;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. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to CONDEMN the world, but that the world THROUGH HIM might be SAVED&#8221;<\/i> <b>John 3:16-17.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Today, how much do you love God&#8217;s WORD? Do you love it\u00a0as your first,\u00a0last, and only companion, or do\u00a0you turn to it after trying your own self-made ways,\u00a0the opinions of others, or sources\u00a0like the 1st internet web called World-Wide-Web [WWW],\u00a0or the 2nd internet web called Social-Media-Web [SMW] or the current 3rd web called the Artificial Intelligence Web alias AI-Web [AIW]. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">I want you to know that God&#8217;s WORD is built on love, which is far beyond any of the past and present web components we\u2019ve\u00a0mentioned that consume our world today. If you are never a lover of God&#8217;s WORD or one who is skeptical of God&#8217;s WORD or one who thinks that God&#8217;s word is mystical, know now and today and always, that God&#8217;s WORD is none of the characteristics and assumptions mentioned earlier or any such like; for God&#8217;s WORD is built of His nature and person, which is love. He is love, and love by definition and love by His WORD.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">And when you love His WORD to obey His WORD from the place of love, you find out that His WORD is not grievous, toastmaster, irksome, oppressive, burdensome and any such like. And those who loves His word, His word, is born in their hearts even as in this December and in this Christmas of the celebration and commemoration of the birth of God&#8217;s loves to advance His Kingdom cause for the good and goodness of all mankind in the grace. I employ you to love God&#8217;s commands and build up your life in His WORD by love for your graciousness and gracefulness in the grace.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;And now I COMMEND you to God [placing you in His protective, loving care] and [I commend you] to THE WORD of His grace [the counsel and promises of His unmerited favor]. His GRACE is able to BUILD you up and to GIVE you the [rightful] inheritance among all those who are SANCTIFIED [that is, among those who are SET APART for God\u2019s purpose\u2014all believers]&#8221;<\/i> <b>Acts 20:32\/Amplified.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;EVERYONE WHO believes (adheres to, trusts, and relies on the fact) that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah) is a born-again child of God; and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one BORN of Him (His offspring). 2 By this we come to know (recognize and understand) that we love the children of God: when we LOVE God and obey His commands (orders, charges)\u2013 [when we keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and His teaching]. 3 For the [true] love of God is this: that we do His commands [keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and teaching]. And these orders of His are not irksome [burdensome, oppressive, or grievous]&#8221;<\/i> <b>1 John 5:1-3\/Amplified Classic Edition. <\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;If you abide in Me, and My WORDS abide in you, you will ASK what you DESIRE, and it shall be DONE for you. 8 By this My Father is GLORIFIED, that you bear MUCH FRUIT; so you will be My disciples. 9 \u201cAs the Father LOVED Me, I also have LOVED you; abide in My LOVE. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My LOVE, just as I have kept My Father\u2019s COMMANDMENTS and ABIDE in His LOVE&#8221; <\/i><b>John 15:7-10\/NKJV.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Love is an essence to SERVE others by, in the kingdom CAUSE of God. And God only cause all things to work out for the good of those that loves Him and embraces the kingdom PURPOSE of His assignments to them. There are many out there, who wants just God&#8217;s BLESSEDNESS in their lives but are unprepared for the kingdom cause and purpose of God. It&#8217;s impossible to take God&#8217;s love out of His purpose. It&#8217;s like cutting off your nose to spite your face.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">God in His nature of love, implants His purpose to work together for the good of all who embraces the spirit of services through love. For the Faith to please God only operates through love. So, to render to God an acceptable service, and a worthy worship, love must be defacto and the process essence to execute under God&#8217;s name and person. Hence, in this December and in this Christmas, ensure and assure God&#8217;s love, in all manners of services of your efforts, to be divinely accepted as scripturally written:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;And we know [with great confidence] that God [who is deeply concerned about us] CAUSES ALL THINGS to work together [as a plan] for good for those who LOVE God, to those who are called according to His PLAN and PURPOSE&#8221;<\/i> <b>Romans 8:28\/Amplified.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;For [if we are] in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but only FAITH ACTIVATED and EXPRESSED and working THROUGH LOVE . . . 13 For you, my brothers, were called to freedom; only do not let your FREEDOM become an opportunity for the sinful nature (worldliness, selfishness), but THROUGH LOVE SERVE and seek the best for one another&#8221;<\/i> <b>Galatians 5:6, 13\/Amplified.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">There are\u00a0secret places and secret things in this world and about the way to live and do life in order to be an overcomer, be triumphant and more than conqueror in 24\/7, over this world systems. And it&#8217;s only the creator God, that holds the answers to the human questions in the palm of His hands. That&#8217;s why no matter all man has achieved in humanity, the insatiable search to\u00a0get an answer to the questions that had risen out of what man has created remains an illusion no matter the human investments and bodies created to find answers. And it&#8217;s because man&#8217;s eternal spirited hearts can&#8217;t fathom God by its limited wisdom and its eternal spirit quest, it&#8217;s only answerable to God and not to man or human creations by the limited wisdom in comparison to the infinite wisdom of the eternal God of love.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;He has made EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUl in its time. He also has planted ETERNITY in MEN&#8217;S HEARTS and MINDS [a DIVINELY IMPLANTED SENSE of a PURPOSE working through the ages which NOTHING under the sun but God ALONE can satisfy], yet so that men CANNOT find out what God has done from the beginning to the end&#8221;<\/i> <b>Ecclesiastes 3:11\/Amplified Classic Edition.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">And God has severally by the Scriptures given out His intents to reveal to us His secrets to His children <b>[Amos 3:7; Deuteronomy 29:29; Psalms 25:14; 1 Corinthians 2:9-10]<\/b>. He knows it&#8217;s by that extraordinary and supernaturally means that His children can be distinguished from others in the world. And this enormous secrets places and secret things of God is only REVEALED to those who walk according to the cause of love in Him in them &#8211; meaning, those who are willing and ready to do life and live godly lives through love, without buts,\u00a0ifs, or terms and conditions. God lives and breathes through love, as a nature and as a person. And only let out His secret of eternal realms of love,\u00a0to those led by the Holy Spirit, who ensures love in the process of doing life and living godly in His\u00a0grace. That&#8217;s what defines the process in the realms of revelation as it\u2019s written:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;But as it is written: \u201cEye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has PREPARED for those who LOVE Him.\u201d 10 But God has REVEALED [UNVEILED] them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit SEARCHES all things, yes, the DEEP things of God&#8221; <\/i><b>1 Corinthians 2:9-10\/NKJV [Isaiah 64:4; Isaiah 65:17].<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;The secret [of the sweet, satisfying companionship] of the Lord have they who fear (revere and worship) Him, and He will show them His covenant and reveal to them its [deep, inner] meaning&#8221;<\/i> <b>Psalms 25:14\/Amplified Classic Edition [John 7:17; John 15:15; Deuteronomy 29:29; Amos 3:7].<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">God gave us a new commandment that&#8217;s built on love in Christ Jesus. Hence, in this December and in this Christmas and always, God earnest desires and expectations, is for you to do life and live godly with others through the mirror of love irrespective of whatever. That is the bedrock and hallmark of His commands, and His commands in His commandments are not\u00a0advice, but a life to be lived in love, intentionally and pragmatically, as a mark of obedience to Him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">For all the law given in the Old creation Testament is summed up in the New creation Testament in four letters: L-O-V-E. The essence of the New commandments for The New Creation in Christ Jesus is all spelled out in love. The New Creation needs to abide in God&#8217;s word in love and abound in\u00a0love in order to actualise and authenticate the loving friendship of God&#8217;s love towards us, as demonstrated in Christ Jesus, just like\u00a0Father Abraham.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>\u201cAs the Father LOVED Me, I also have LOVED you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My LOVE, just as I have kept My Father\u2019s commandments and abide in His love. 11 \u201cThese things I have spoken to you, that My JOY may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12 This is My COMMANDMENT, that you LOVE one another as I have loved you. [13] GREATER LOVE has no one than this, than to lay down one\u2019s life for his friends. 14 You are MY FRIENDS if you do whatever I COMMAND you&#8221;<\/i> <b>John 15:9-14\/NKJV.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;And [so] the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed in (adhered to, trusted in, and relied on) God, and this was accounted to him as righteousness (as conformity to God&#8217;s will in thought and deed), and he was called God&#8217;s friend&#8221;<\/i> <b>James 2:23\/Amplified Classic Edition [Genesis 15:6; 2 Chronicles 20:7; Isaiah 41:8].<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;For Christ is the END of the LAW [it leads to Him, and its PURPOSE is FULFILLED in Him], for [granting] RIGHTEOUSNESS to everyone who BELIEVES [in Him as Savior]&#8221;<\/i> <b>Romans 10:4\/Amplified.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">God expectations of the believing one of God that has become a New creation, is to be a carrier of God&#8217;s DNA of love. It does mean we are expected to love irrespectively and without sentiments, prejudice, and dissimulation. And the idea of NOT LOVING any, makes one a murderer in God&#8217;s love definition &#8211; for it was while we were yet sinners, that Christ Jesus expressed His love for us\u00a0unto death<b> [Romans 5:8]<\/b>.\u00a0The Scriptures say that even harbouring\u00a0thought of evil and hatred constitutes being a murderer in the sight of God, who is love. Hence, God expects us as His children with His nature to go about expressing His love nature. Just as a Lion does not give birth to a Goat, why should\u00a0a born-again child of God live a life that is less than the characteristics of Gods nature of love, that&#8217;s lavishly poured and given to them by the seal of the indwelling Holy Spirit within<b> [Romans 5:5]. <\/b>Hence, in this December, and in this Christmas, take a pure heart to intentionally and pragmatically look through the scriptures in love, as a mirror to ensure love as written:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;In this the CHILDREN of God and the CHILDREN of the devil are MANIFEST: Whoever DOES NOT PRACTICE RIGHTEOUSNESS is not of God, nor is he who DOES NOT LOVE his brother. 11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should LOVE one another, 12 not as Cain who was of the WICKED one and MURDERED his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were EVIL and his brothers RIGHTEOUS.<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>14 We know that we have PASSED FROM DEATH TO LIFE, because we LOVE the brethren. He who DOES NOT LOVE his brother ABIDES in death. 15 Whoever HATES his brother is a MURDERER, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him&#8221;<\/i> <b>1 John 3:10-16.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>\u201cYou have heard that it was said to the men of old, \u2018You shall not murder,\u2019 and \u2018Whoever murders shall be guilty before the court.\u2019 22 But I say to you that everyone who continues to be angry with his brother or harbors malice against him shall be guilty before the court; and whoever speaks [contemptuously and insultingly] to his brother, \u2018Raca (You empty-headed idiot)!\u2019 shall be guilty before the supreme court (Sanhedrin); and whoever says, \u2018You fool!\u2019 shall be in danger of the fiery hell. 23 So if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and while there you remember that your brother has something [such as a grievance or legitimate complaint] against you, 24 leave your offering there at the altar and go. First make peace with your brother and then come and present your offering. 25. Come to terms quickly [at the earliest opportunity] with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way [to court], so that your opponent does not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you are thrown into prison. 26 I assure you and most solemnly say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid the last cent&#8221;<\/i> <b>Matthew 5:21-26\/Amplified. [Luke 12:58, 59]; [Ex 20:13; Deut 5:17; 16:18].<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">The highest, hallmark and earnest PRAYERS of every Believers of God, wanting to know God and fulfil His purpose, is to KNOW THE LOVE of God in Christ Jesus, in its WIDTH and LENGTH and DEPTH and HEIGHT. And our God had MADE it possible to us, by the indwelling Holy Spirit that&#8217;s given to us. And the Holy Spirit\u2019s presence is to help and enable us to express the\u00a0eternal-like, divine-like and God-like kind of love that He has lavished and poured into us as His new creation breed. The love of God, that surpasses and transcends the human five senses sensual knowledge and self-made love, that ruins and is ruining the human dignity and persons because of its selfishness and self-centered content and the act of the respects of persons for gains as expressed through sentiments, prejudice and dissimulation. There&#8217;s the need to endeavour to know the love of God and own it to do life and live godly in the grace.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;. . . 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being ROOTED and GROUNDED in LOVE, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the WIDTH and LENGTH and DEPTH and HEIGHT\u2014 19 to KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST which PASSES knowledge; that you may be FILLED with all the FULLNESS of God . . .&#8221;<\/i> <b>Ephesians 3:14-20\/NKJV.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;Now hope does not disappoint, because the LOVE of God has been POURED [LAVISHED] out in our HEARTS [HUMAN SPIRIT] by the Holy Spirit who was GIVEN to us&#8221;<\/i> <b>Romans 5:5\/NKJV [Emphasis Mine].<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Therefore, in this December and in this Christmas, as said that This DAY &#8211; being TODAY, let EMMANUEL, The God With Us, who is JESUS THE CHRIST, be BORN &#8211; IN YOUR HEARTS. For upon this phrase, in terms that the Month DECEMBER 2025 is Themed:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">JESUS CHRIST OUR EMMANUEL! &#8220;Our Saviour and the God With Us&#8221; &#8211; who is now in us and for us, thus signifies God dwelling [or comes to dwell] with humanity &#8211; thereby creates a new passage for a new kind of RELATIONSHIP between us and Him. We lost this FELLOWSHIP in the garden of Eden by\u00a0Adam; but God in His LOVE at the Birth of JESUS The Christ, RESTORED this awesome FELLOWSHIP to enhance our RELATIONSHIP In Him, in the CAUSE of His REDEMPTION for us in Christ Jesus stead. And because He&#8217;s in us by love, and we live to love Him, we&#8217;ve become more than conquerors under His love, and nothing can separate us in His love.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;Who shall separate us from THE LOVE OF CHRIST? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS through him that LOVED us. 38 For I am PERSUADED, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from THE LOVE OF GOD, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord&#8221;<\/i><b> Romans 8:35-39.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">God in humanity is JESUS in name; while CHRIST depicts Him as &#8211; the Messiah, the Saviour, the Redeemer and the Holy one of Israel, for His cause on earth for human redemption. We&#8217;ve been called into this FELLOWSHIP built and govern by love, that we might enjoy God and the heavens on earth again, so we can say that as He is, so are we in this world and can joyfully ask of His will in our domain on this side of heaven call the earth as it&#8217;s written in the Holy Writ of<b> 1 John 4:17, Matthew 6:10<\/b>. This is the REASON then for the SEASON, the DECEMBER mood that comes along with CHRISTMAS which thus is:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">&#8220;The Yearly [Annual] COMMEMORATION And CELEBRATION of God&#8217;s LOVE In Christ Jesus And His REDEMPTION CAUSE On EARTH&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">For it&#8217;s as we EXPLORE this relationship and fellowship of JESUS The Christ, and as our God EMMANUEL, who is now here and living &#8211; IN us, FOR us and WITH us &#8211; that is when our PATH OF LIFE is ordered and we can then enjoy to the FULNESS the abounding PLEASURES of God in His grace and BLESSEDNESS forevermore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Today as in this Month DECEMBER that prelude the CHRISTMAS season, let us take advantage of the indwelling EMMANUEL &#8211; JESUS the Christ, the God with us, that&#8217;s born in our hearts to save us, and enjoy continuously, God&#8217;s presence in fellowship with us and in our path of life &#8211; to keep us thriving, blossoming and glowing with His pleasures in life and godliness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Therefore Today, THIS DAY, I pray that Emmanuel comes to be in your life, born in your heart in love this DECEMBER, in this season that preludes\u00a0Christmas, in Jesus&#8217; name, Amen!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">SELAH &#8211; PAUSE AND THINK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">SCRIPTURAL THOUGHT WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;Beloved, let us [unselfishly] love and seek the best for one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves [others] is born of God and knows God [through personal experience]. 8 The one who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for GOD IS LOVE. [He is the originator of love, and it is an enduring attribute of His nature.] 9 By this the love of God was displayed in us, in that God has sent His [One and] only begotten Son [the One who is truly unique, the only One of His kind] into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation [that is, the atoning sacrifice, and the satisfying offering] for our sins [fulfilling God\u2019s requirement for justice against sin and placating His wrath]. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us [in this incredible way], we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time. But if we love one another [with unselfish concern], God abides in us, and His love [the love that is His essence abides in us and] is completed and perfected in us. 13 By this we know [with confident assurance] that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given to us His [Holy] Spirit. 14 We [who were with Him in person] have seen and testify [as eye-witnesses] that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses and acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 We have come to know [by personal observation and experience], and have believed [with deep, consistent faith] the love which God has for us. GOD IS LOVE, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides continually in him. 17 In this [union and fellowship with Him], love is completed and perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him]; because as He is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love [dread does not exist]. But perfect (complete, full-grown) love drives out fear, because fear involves [the expectation of divine] punishment, so the one who is afraid [of God\u2019s judgment] is not perfected in love [has not grown into a sufficient understanding of God\u2019s love]. 19 We love, because He first loved us. 20 If anyone says, \u201cI love God,\u201d and hates (works against) his [Christian] brother he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should also [unselfishly] love his brother and seek the best for him&#8221;<\/i> <b>1 John 4:7-21\/Amplified.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;For this is the message which you [believers] have heard from the beginning [of your relationship with Christ], that we should [unselfishly] love and seek the best for one another; 12 and not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother [Abel]. And why did he murder him? Because Cain\u2019s deeds were evil, and his brother\u2019s were righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, believers, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed out of death into Life, because we love the brothers and sisters. He who does not love remains in [spiritual] death. 15 Everyone who hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is [at heart] a murderer [by God\u2019s standards]; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 16 By this we know [and have come to understand the depth and essence of His precious] love: that He [willingly] laid down His life for us [because He loved us]. And we ought to lay down our lives for the believers. 17 But whoever has the world\u2019s goods (adequate resources), and sees his brother in need, but has no compassion for him, how does the love of God live in him? 18 Little children (believers, dear ones), let us not love [merely in theory] with word or with tongue [giving lip service to compassion], but in action and in truth [in practice and in sincerity, because practical acts of love are more than words]. 19 By this we will know [without any doubt] that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart and quiet our conscience before Him 20 whenever our heart convicts us [in guilt]; for God is greater than our heart and He knows all things [nothing is hidden from Him because we are in His hands]. 21 Beloved, if our heart does not convict us [of guilt], we have confidence [complete assurance and boldness] before God; 22 and we receive from Him whatever we ask because we [carefully and consistently] keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight [habitually seeking to follow His plan for us]. 23 This is His commandment, that we believe [with personal faith and confident trust] in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and [that we unselfishly] love and seek the best for one another, just as He commanded us. 24 The one who habitually keeps His commandments [obeying His word and following His precepts, abides and] remains in Him, and He in him. By this we know and have the proof that He [really] abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us [as a gift]&#8221;<\/i> <b>1 John 3:11-24\/Amplified.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>\u201cYou have heard that it was said to the men of old, \u2018You shall not murder,\u2019 and \u2018Whoever murders shall be guilty before the court.\u2019 22 But I say to you that everyone who continues to be angry with his brother or harbors malice against him shall be guilty before the court; and whoever speaks [contemptuously and insultingly] to his brother, \u2018Raca (You empty-headed idiot)!\u2019 shall be guilty before the supreme court (Sanhedrin); and whoever says, \u2018You fool!\u2019 shall be in danger of the fiery hell. 23 So if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and while there you remember that your brother has something [such as a grievance or legitimate complaint] against you, 24 leave your offering there at the altar and go. First make peace with your brother, and then come and present your offering. 25. Come to terms quickly [at the earliest opportunity] with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way [to court], so that your opponent does not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you are thrown into prison. 26 I assure you and most solemnly say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid the last cent&#8221;<\/i> <b>Matthew 5:21-26\/Amplified. [Luke 12:58, 59]; [Ex 20:13; Deut 5:17; 16:18].<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><i>&#8220;Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love&#8221;<\/i> <b>1 Corinthians 13:1-13.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>REV. CHUKIE MORSI<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DECEMBER! 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