Merry Christmas! Thanks for stopping by the A Shepherd's Heart site! In case you're not connected with A Shepherd's Heart on social media (Instagram and Facebook), I wanted to share a digest of 5 recent post that were featured there to encourage you in your faith and as you celebrate The Savior's Birth! Please see the below posts where you'll find a picture followed by an encouragement. Your Brother and Servant in Christ, Randolph Koch My Friend, I truly love Christmas time. From Celebrating Jesus' birthday, (The Reason for the season), enjoying the music, the decorations, the lights, food, exchanging gifts, enjoying fellowship with others, and much more. While we celebrate the birth of Jesus, may we remember God loves you and I so much that He sent Jesus down as a baby so that we might have salvation, forgiveness, and life eternal thanks to Jesus' sacrifice. Christmas is a wonderful time to receive The Gift (Salvation) from THE GIFT, Jesus Christ Himself. Unfortunately, some have bought into the thought that "they are too far gone" for God to love and forgive them. Let me plainly tell you that this is not true as Jesus is The Light of the world and His light will pierce even the darkest places, even the places where you've gone or currently are that you think He can't reach. No one this side of eternity is too far gone! Furthermore, once you know Him through receiving His free gift of salvation, be encouraged that nothing can ever separate you from Him! May you allow the Light of Christ to pierce through the darkest of places in your heart, mind, soul and life in Jesus name I pray. Here are a few verses to encourage you as you remember Jesus is The Light of the world and there's never a place you can go that He will not already gone first to redeem you. John 8:12, John 9:5, John 12:35-36, John 12:46, Romans 8:38-39 My Friend, As we continue to contemplate this Christmas season, I am reminded that another gift from The Heart of God is that as we receive His free gift of salvation through Jesus (The Gift), we're then adopted as sons and daughters. I'm so thankful to be a part of His family now as God is my/our Perfect Heavenly Father! No matter how your earthly father is or was, may you take comfort in how unconditionally Your Heavenly Father loves you and when He adopts you as His own, it's forever! May you celebrate Christmas anew as you remember Jesus' birth and God's Gift of salvation which includes your adoption into His family. Here are a few of many of the verses to read, study, take to heart and to encourage you with a reminder of your adoption in Him: John 1:12, 1 John 3:2, and Ephesians 1:5. Merry Christmas! My Friend, Because of God's great love for you and I, He sent His only son so that we might have forgiveness of our sins, salvation, and new life in and through Him. Jesus humbled Himself entering this world as a baby. He did this so He could then later on sacrifice Himself for all our sins so that we might have life. If this doesn't speak volumes to you of His great love for you, I don't know what does. Maybe you doubt His love for you sometimes? If so, let me lovingly tell you to stop it! Don't doubt Him and His love and don't allow the enemy of your soul, satan, or other people, to try and fool you into buying the lie that God doesn't or can't love you! His love for you is relentless. He pursues you from and through His great love for you! His love for you will never change. God Loves you completely and showed His great love for you through the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus for you. May you pause this Christmas to stand in awe of and celebrate God's perfect and relentless love for you. My Friend, I love the rich truths of God's Word as well as the rich truth of The Reason we celebrate Christmas which is the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. When I read Colossians 1:27, the phrase, "Christ in you, the hope of glory" comes to life, especially during Christmas. As we celebrate The Savior's Birth, we should consider anew one of the great wonders of Christmas which is the true hope we have in Jesus. Why can we have hope? Because Jesus is our hope! He is Emmanuel, God with us and in our case, thanks to His free gift of salvation, God is in us through His Holy Spirit! As followers of Christ we have The Hope that is unstoppable and irreplaceable because Christ is our hope and again, He has taken up residency within each of us. (I Corinthians 16:9) No matter how horrible your current situation is, you can always have and find true hope in The Lord. He is your hope! This Christmas time and all year through, may you put your hope in Him as He truly is the hope of glory. Take a moment to read, study, and take to heart, Colossians 1:27 as Christ is in you. My friend, It's December 1st! Merry Christmas! As we begin to celebrate the Christmas season, may we prepare Him room in our hearts, minds, and in every area of our lives. Preparing Him room begins with our hearts and we need to pause regularly to ask The Lord "Am I making room for You Lord?" Prepare Him room my friend and don't allow anything in your life, including people, to block His work in and through you. I pray that each of us continue to prepare Him room every day. Take a moment to read and be encouraged by Luke 2:1‭-‬7 and John 1:1‭-‬5.

We all face different things in life, sometimes stormy seas and sometimes calm ones. Throughout life God is walking with you and is making you a beautiful creation. Our task to realize and accept that. In Spiritually Hungry's new post, we will discuss this very topic and give you 9 practical ways to focus your eyes on God who is walking with you!

Here is a list and explanation of the miracles of Jesus. There are 37 miracles that Jesus performed in the Bible. Get a free printable too!

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Becoming Fit for Glory The Lord will give grace and glory. (Psalm 84:11) Grace is what we need just now, and it is to be had freely. What can be freer than a gift? Today we shall receive sustaining, strengthening, sanctifying, satisfying grace. He has given daily grace until now, and as for the future, that grace is still sufficient. If we have but little grace the fault must lie in ourselves; for the Lord is not straitened, neither is He slow to bestow it in abundance. We may ask for as much as we will and never fear a refusal. He giveth liberally and upbraideth not. The Lord may not give gold, but He will give grace: He may not give gain, but He will give grace. He will certainly send us trial, but He will give grace in proportion thereto. We may be called to labor and to suffer, but with the call there will come all the grace required; What an "end" is that in the text—"and glory!" We do not need glory yet, and we are not yet fit for it; but we shall have it in due order. After we have eaten the bread of grace, we shall drink the wine of glory. We must go through the holy, which is grace, to the holiest of all, which is glory. These words and glory are enough to make a man dance for joy. A little while—a little while, and then glory forever! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ If you are not a believer in Jesus Christ, you can be accepted in to his kingdom. I invite you to let him to make of you what He always wanted. "PRAYER" Marvelous God Almighty, I come to you in the precious name of Jesus, who died for me to make me free of sin, I want Jesus to enter in to my heart and make me free, I confess that He is the son of God. I ask to change my heart and to give me wisdom to understand your Holy Word full of promises of eternal value, not only to live on this earth, but to be expectant of my life in heaven. In the precious name of Jesus I ask. Amen.. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥ ♥ “The true minister of Christ knows that the true value of a sermon must lie, not in its fashion and manner, but in the truth which it contains.” C. H. Spurgeon ~ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ The purpose of these pages is to share the precious word of God, without acquiring any monetary reward. God gave me the salvation for free, so I share the gospel of his word the same way .. ( NO ADVERTISEMENTS ) ... Blessings to all of You, rejoice in the sublime and infallible word of God PRAYER Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those that I care deeply for, who are reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of Your love and power. Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy.. Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings. Amen. "HAVE A BLESSED DAY FULL OF PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS" You can see two post at the time, please go to the bottom and look for the "Blog Archive", there is many more, sometimes I do many during the day as the time permits. DO YOU ENJOY THIS BLOG ? .. If you like to visit my other blogs, please click at the link and If not clickable, please copy and paste the address to your browser, Thanks... ENGLISH: http://ambassadorforjesus.blogspot.com/ http://jesusmightywarrior.blogspot.com/ http://elshaddaitheallsufficientone.blogspot.com/ http://theinfalliblewordofgod.blogspot.com/ SPANISH: http://poderosoguerrerodejesus.blogspot.com/ TRANSLATORS ARE AVAILABLE TO ANY LANGUAGE.. TRADUCTORES AL ESPAÑOL O CUALQUIER OTRO LENGUAJE... Don't forget to spread The Word of GOD by sharing today's passage with friends... Please share with your family and friends using small envelope (E-mail) next to a pencil, under my name at the bottom of post, or using the share link.. COPYRIGHT STATEMENT " Reflection and inspiration from the "Prince of Preachers," Charles Haddon Spurgeon. This resource was produced before 1923 and therefore is considered in the "Public Domain". "COPYRIGHT POLICY" We respect copyright laws and are committed to remove any copyright infringing material from our website. If you find any content on our website which infringes your copyrighted work, please contact us, we’ll be happy to verify and remove such content. Please do provide us the following details: 1) Your name, E-mail Address. 2) Location (URLs) of your copyrighted work on your website. 3) Location (URLs) of your copyrighted work on our website. Some of images taken from Flickr under Creative Commons License and also the bank of free Creative images for non commercial usage... Everything we do is for God Almighty's glory our creator and we pray for all the people that are making images available to continue spreading the Gospel. Thank You and God Bless. Mightywarrior.. Blog created February 15, 2010 .

Jesus, I can’t live without you! More

While Jesus, the Son of God, was traveling about Jerusalem teaching the Jewish people about love, a rebel named Barabbas lead a group of political insurgents in a rebellion against Rome. bar-abbas…

God has given us everything we need to focus on Jesus and to have strength and courage as we live through the end times of Revelation.

Many of us spend far more time watching TV, shopping, and otherwise exposing ourselves to the world’s messages than we do absorbing God’s message (the Bible!), which leaves us vulnerable and often confused about our priorities. My blog for today on taming my temptation for more stuff.

God has given us everything we need to focus on Jesus and to have strength and courage as we live through the end times of Revelation.

We're told to “turn your eyes upon Jesus” and our problems will fade away. Try these 3 ways to fix your eyes on Jesus and keep the focus on Jesus every day!

It's hard to focus on Jesus when circumstances are hard and life is crazy but the Bible says it's the way to have peace, strength, and the change you want.