Happy Birthday to the VINE who gives us the VICTORY, not through His birth, which was VERY wonderful, but through His death & resurrection as the first fruits of those that sleep...
Let's VANISH despair, and take hold of all of the VIM & VIGOR we can on this Fab Fry, three days before Christmas 2017...VERILY! VERILY! Let's VOW to have a VERY Merry Christmas!
A VIRGIN did conceive! Shepherds did VISIT! Angel VOICES did sing 'Glory to God in the Highest! .....that Holy Night in Bethlehem...
33 years later, Jesus requested that everyone that would follow Him should hear His VOICE: Behold! I stand at the door and knock, if anyone hears my VOICE, and opens the door, I will come in to them, and will sup with them, and they with Me." (Revelation 3:20)
Jesus said, "Except you abide in the VINE, you can do nothing. Jesus is the VINE; we are the branches...All else is is VANITY...We can be a VICTIM or a VICTOR by allowing Him to change our VILE body into one like His Glorious Body, as Paul said in Phillipians 3:21....
May we be VIBRANT & make our body a VESSEL of honor...
Paul asks in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20:
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
You were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
What we are is God's Gift to us....What we Become...is Our Gift to God....
Jesus, The Good Shepherd, wants us to hear His VOICE, as 'Sheep of His Pasture', and 'Follow Him'...He wants to lead us through the 'Valley of the Shadow of Death' as it says in the 23rd Psalm....There can be 'No Darkness' with The Light of the World...
Jesus, The Good Shepherd, wants us to hear His VOICE, as 'Sheep of His Pasture', and 'Follow Him'...He wants to lead us through the 'Valley of the Shadow of Death' as it says in the 23rd Psalm....There can be 'No Darkness' with The Light of the World...
Eleven years ago (October 6, 2006 to January 10, 2007), I was flat on my back in UVA Hospital at Charlottesville, undergoing three 'Brain' surgeries & fifteen 'Lumbar Punctures', getting about a pint of excess spinal fluid each time. (Dr. Jane wanted to send me home w/o a drainage bag on my side.)...During that four month time period, I prayed the Alphabet constantly...
A to Z many times a day & all night long....(Words still fascinate me today & this is the reason I am doing 26 alphabetical days of Christmas this year)...
Talking to God in this way was the 'Only' thing that gave me peace...Realizing, that I was VERY close to death...
My family was told that if I survived, I would likely have to learn how to walk & talk all over again...Praise God it didn't happen!
I still pray the Alphabet today. It seems to give order to my life..
God, Brilliant Brain Surgeons...& the Alphabet...Saved my Life! VERILY! VERILY!
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, or of 'good report'...If there be any VIRTUE, or any praise, think on 'These Things' (Phillipians 4:8)
Thanks be to God, Who gives us the Victory through Jesus Christ our Lord....O grave, where is thy VICTORY....O Death, where is thy sting? (I Corinthians 15: 55-57)....
Merry Christmas to All.... WXY& Z on deck...
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, or of 'good report'...If there be any VIRTUE, or any praise, think on 'These Things' (Phillipians 4:8)
Thanks be to God, Who gives us the Victory through Jesus Christ our Lord....O grave, where is thy VICTORY....O Death, where is thy sting? (I Corinthians 15: 55-57)....
Merry Christmas to All.... WXY& Z on deck...
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