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-- 12-27-2002 @ 9:53 AM
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Christmas is a time that you seek to give good gifts to those who you
love. This is right and fitting, for I have given you the most precious
gift that I could possibly offer you -- I have given you My dear son!
Christmas is a time when you desire to have a perfect family meal, with
many special treats and delicacies. You desire to set a perfect table that
your entire family will enjoy. This is also good and proper, for I have
set an end-time feast table that I am inviting My family to. Has not
My Son said, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink!" Has He
not also said of the bread and wine, "take and eat," "take and drink,"
"this is My body" and "this is My blood poured out for many". Has He
not said, "I tell you the truth, I will not drink again of the fruit of
the vine until that day when I drink it anew in the kingdom of God."
I tell you that the feast that I have set before you is My Son, and that
as you eat of Him and as you believe in Him, then you inherit eternal life
and you will enter into My family and you will be invited to My end-time
feast.
Yes, there are reasons and meanings behind many of the traditions of the
Christmas season. But a trap of distraction has been set for you by the
enemy of your souls. He tries to put obligations on top of the traditions,
that the joy of the season is drained from some of you because you cannot
afford or you cannot find the right presents. Then your focus is transferred
from what I have done for you to what you must do for others, under the
burden of false obligation. Some become so burdened by cooking and cleaning
and preparing to receive the family that they become exhausted and unable to
think of what Christmas is really about -- the expansion of My family through
the gift of My Son. Some become so distracted by the business of the season
that they do not have time for Me -- and yet the whole purpose of Christmas
is that man might freely be able to come to Me, no longer separated by their
sin and their guilt.
Children of Mine, I love you dearly. I have paid a great price and I have
given a costly gift that you might enter into My family and become My own.
Now, this Christmas day, I ask that you set aside the traditions and the
business for a little while and come to Me. Remember what this day is
about. Then look to Me -- look not at what I will do for you (though I
will do many good things for you and give you many good gifts). Rather look
to what gifts you might present to Me this Christmas day.
Let Me tell you what would please Me, what gifts you might bring to Me this
Christmas day. Bring Me your worship. Set in your heart a deep commitment
to obey Me in all things, to truly make Me your Lord. Bring me your willing
obedience, a commitment to my Lordship, to obey Me because you love Me.
Spend time with Me, for your time is one of your most precious possessions and
you spend it on the things that are dearest to you. Show Me that I am dear
to you, give Me your time and give Me your obedience and give Me your
worship. This is what I want from you, My child, for Christmas -- not just
for this one day, but all throughout the year. This is what I desire of
you. Will you give it to Me?
Blessings
- Teresa Seputis
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GodSpeak International; PO Box 4000; Hayward CA 94540-4000; USA
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Yours In The Vineyard, Amareno
"As the deer panteth after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after thee oh Lord" (Psalm 42:1)
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-- 12-27-2002 @ 9:55 AM
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A CHRISTMAS PRAYER FOR THE NATIONS
Lord of Light and Glory, we as your tribes and peoples, do worship you and hunger for you in this day! We praise you for your Life given for all humanity. We love you for all that you are, for your very essence that dwells within us, and your compassion that you lavish upon us.
Glorious One, breathe again upon the nations! Rain your mercies and lovingkindness upon the earth.
In this season, heal our land! cleanse our hearts, blow upon the coals of the of those who are torn, turn their hearts
toward your voice again. Redeem the spiritual outcasts who have fled from you, embrace the spiritually maimed who have been broken and beaten. Raise up purposed vision in this hour to your people! Arise and speak to your holy apostles and prophets for the journey and strategies ahead! Burden with great instruction, and illumination upon your intercessors, for the birthing that must come
Inflict us! Most High God, break in upon our agenda's and our comforts, till we are not satisfied with our lives.
Give our pastors and instructors in your house hearts for brokeness and truth!. Teach us in these days Godly contentment and humility. Give your ministers hearts of unity and cohesiveness to your divine plan. Stir our hearts to mercy and compassion, upon all mankind. Forge through our families, bringing great peace in the midsts of chaos. Teach your men to be God-men! faithful in all things. Instruct your women to be true handmaidens unto you, with all wisdom, clarity, and sincerity for the days that are ahead.
Break and destroy our unholy alliances!
Come suddenly upon the seats of mens hearts in our government! Impart holiness and orchestrate divine allegiance to your Name and your Word upon our leaders hearts. Seeing that we bring no reproach to your Name! Burn within us a fire that shall voice outloud against unrighteous injustice upon the land! Raise up the boldness of the Lion of the tribe of Judah within your people!
Captivate our hearts and lives for you only! Let our lives so reflect your kingdom and life in all truth and deeds and holiness, that the heathen will see your goodness and repent of rejecting you!
Break our hearts for the things that break yours! Rise up within us Oh Holy One! and bring again the compassion for hurting and lost humanity!, Let us break free from the comforts of our church houses, and organized institutions, and compel those within the nations to come out of darkness, into your Holy light! Burn in us a holy zeal for the people of the earth!
Have us cast off our garments of yesterday! Let us not live in the former times, being bound to moves, waves, and dispensations. Have us embrace "Today" and what you are declaring!
We bless your Holy nation Israel! We pray for your revealing unto them in these days! We pray that you would keep them from calamity and raise up a standard of peace unto them in their affliction!
We pray that we, as your people would keep the unity of the bond of peace, walking and speaking uprightly before all men.Grant us wisdom for recognizing the season that we are in. May our hearts be always content, but always desperate to apprehend you in all things!.
In Jesus Mighty Name! Amen
Pastor Mark
misfits@azalea.net
Yours In The Vineyard, Amareno
"As the deer panteth after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after thee oh Lord" (Psalm 42:1)
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Amareno
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-- 12-27-2002 @ 9:56 AM
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I pray for a greater relationship with You for all those Who seek it. I pray that the Wind of the Holy Spirit will blow away all that does not give God glory in our lives. I stand in sack cloth of heart pray that forgiveness from sin of prayerlessness that so prevails us. LORD it is only at the point of communication can we receive strength and grace to follow the LORD and walk with Him even in the Hottest fires rages in life's situations that prevail on us each day.
Lord, I repent for all the times I held back my passion or compromised my convictions to calm the discomforts of people. You are my Audience of One, You are my First Love, and the only One I care to please. I release my passion for You right now as if it is an arrow in flight. Lift us into the heavenlies with You that we may pursue our divine destiny in Your kingdom.
Dear LORD we want to make more room for you this coming year that You will no longer be a guest in our homes but a host..that You will no longer be an outsider looking into our hearts but that You will be a resident with a permanent address on our hearts.
Yours In The Vineyard, Amareno
"As the deer panteth after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after thee oh Lord" (Psalm 42:1)
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Amareno
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-- 12-27-2002 @ 9:58 AM
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"Can the rush grow up without mire?"
--Job 8:11
The rush is spongy and hollow, and even so is a hypocrite; there is no substance or stability in him. It is shaken to and fro in every wind just as formalists yield to every
influence; for this reason the rush is not broken by the tempest, neither are hypocrites troubled with persecution. I would not willingly be a deceiver or be deceived; perhaps
the text for this day may help me to try myself whether I be a hypocrite or no. The rush by nature lives in water, and owes its very existence to the mire and moisture
wherein it has taken root; let the mire become dry, and the rush withers very quickly. Its greenness is absolutely dependent upon circumstances, a present abundance of
water makes it flourish, and a drought destroys it at once. Is this my case? Do I only serve God when I am in good company, or when religion is profitable and respectable?
Do I love the Lord only when temporal comforts are received from His hands? If so I am a base hypocrite, and like the withering rush, I shall perish when death deprives me
of outward joys. But can I honestly assert that when bodily comforts have been few, and my surroundings have been rather adverse to grace than at all helpful to it, I have
still held fast my integrity? then have I hope that there is genuine vital godliness in me. The rush cannot grow without mire, but plants of the Lord's right hand planting can
and do flourish even in the year of drought. A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay. He who follows Christ for his bag is a Judas; they who
follow for loaves and fishes are children of the devil; but they who attend Him out of love to Himself are His own beloved ones. Lord, let me find my life in Thee, and not in
the mire of this world's favour or gain.
Yours In The Vineyard, Amareno
"As the deer panteth after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after thee oh Lord" (Psalm 42:1)
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Godskid
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-- 12-27-2002 @ 12:07 PM
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Lord Jesus Christ help me to see the mote in my own eye. Not that I may judge others but that I might see thee. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I pray. Amen.
Matthew 6:22-23
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single,(clear) thy whole body shall be full of light.
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
This message was edited by Godskid on 12-27-02 @ 12:14 PM
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Amareno
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-- 12-27-2002 @ 12:45 PM
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Yes Lord make me an example of Your Word and light to men. May they see You daily in me. I pray that my faith in You in the coming year not waiver as the dictates of life's storms and situations but that it would be stronger even as the tide of problems grow. May my heart yeild to Your Will daily even as I conduct myself everywhere I go so that I might point men to Your throne of Grace and may their heart find pasture in Your Word even as I am read by men as I daily dwell in Your Word which is My Light and Salvation. This is my desire Lord in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ. AMen.
Yours In The Vineyard, Amareno
"As the deer panteth after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after thee oh Lord" (Psalm 42:1)
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