God must want me to know I needn't not worry myself.
I must have faith and trust and believe God at His Word. He has no reason to tell lies.
God is faithful. In Him I can believe. He gave His Word for me.
Some scripture references of God always telling the truth-
Numbers 23:19
1 Samuel 15:29
Titus 1:1-3
Hebrews 6:18
"Fear, you are on notice. You are no longer needed or welcome anywhere near me,
so out the door you go and don't bother coming back. I choose to fear not. I choose to
put my hope and my all in the one who is mighty. My soul and heart and my mind are
firmly planted in God's Word and in His might. Thank you Lord for doing everything
for me. For giving me victory through you. For saving me and giving me hope and a
future in heaven. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
Every day the news broadcasts bring more bad, sad news. Violence seems to getting worse. People seem more interested in self, (looking young and having a flat-abs, great body) having their pleasures and being socially-connected above being concerned about the moral state of affairs of the country they live so their children and grandchildren can have a future and experience a decent life.
Have societies of the world gone over-the-cliff of moral decline?
Is mankind speeding headfirst into a brick wall?
Is turmoil the order of the day for millions of Earth citizens around the globe?
Increased number of natural disasters, weird weather patterns, shortage of fresh water, widespread drought, chemicals in the food, famine, hunger, people wanting annihilation of an entire group of people, terrorist attacks, the looming collapse of the dollar, drug overdosing, human freedoms at risk, rising taxes, sex-offenses, too many able-bodied choosing to make it their occupation to live off the government rather than acquiring job skills to get a job. These are just a handful of occurrences we're witnessing and hearing about, and they're affecting us all.
But the most devastating of all is the rampant disrespect and disregard to the things of God and instead believing the lies of the master liar. Even those claiming to be Christians are unknowingly blinded by the master deceiver by being lead to deviate away from the Truth with the attitude, ' it's our right to want what we want and we shall change our laws to make it legal and to hell with the consequences.'(these are what I call carnal Christians).
Are we humans, in general, gullible because...
we aren't as smart as we think we are?
Or, are we stubborn, or don't care to want to know the truth?
Or, do we prefer to not believe the Truth because we like and prefer to believe lies because the lies cater more to our fleshly likings?
The signs of the end-times are obvious and can't be ignored.
Click the link to take you to an article to see a timeline of the final prophetic events before Christ returns.
The world and it's inhabitants will not likely welcome Christ's return. A vast number of this planet's inhabitants have a serious heart condition growing worse by the day, due to so many not desiring to know of Jesus and asking him be their personal savior.
I'm fortunate that my childhood and a young adulthood were during times of innocent...
when kids could actually play outside without the fear of being abducted or kidnapped;
when manners were taught and rudeness was dealt with right then;
when parents disciplined their kids; when in school we stood, faced the flag of the
United States of America, placed our hands over our hearts and proudly recited the Pledge of Allegiance; when the person in the Commander-in-Chief position was revered and respected;
and when people as a whole were much more kind, considerate and thoughtful to each other.
The Truth is the only Way to have abundant Life and not symptoms of destructing and dying societies. See the video below for how to have a renewed heart and be set apart from a dying world.
By continually failing to acknowledging our God and his sovereignty as a people, we must not
believe we are harming to ourselves. We may not see it right away, but we are.
Children growing up today...what will they experience if moral decline continues?
If YOU want Jesus to change your heart today, he will. He can take away your sins and set you free from the penalty of sin and set you on a brand new course of Life.
It's easy to get your miraculous change of heart. Mean it in your heart and in your own words in a prayer, a talk from your heart to God, that you believe Jesus is the Son of God; that he died for your sins; that you repent of your sins against God; that you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, and
that you want him to be a part of your life and that you want to follow his teachings and aim to live a life pleasing to God.
Write this date down as your spiritual birth date, the date you were saved by Jesus. You're with Jesus now, the one who overcame death. Your spirit will live and NOT be punished a forever penalty in the Lake of Fire. Praise the Lord for his love and sacrifice for mankind. You chose and now receive Life.
You will have to learn to grow and learn to listen to the new and improved heart you have which will now be in tune with the Holy Spirit, your ever present teacher and counselor.
Your spiritual growth be a continual process because your flesh and the people of the world about you will want you to regress back to your old way.
Nothing is easy that is worthwhile in life.
You will be challenged daily and you will fail, but remember you are not perfect, only Jesus living within your heart is and that's what you return to and stand firmly on and rely upon for the strength to continue and grow and get better in your daily life of pleasing God.
With Jesus, God does not see your sins, short-givings and blunders, but He sees that which is inside you and the sinless blood that Jesus shed for you.
Then, get under good Bible teachings so you can know more about the things Jesus taught and what God left in His Word for us to know to live by for our good and protection.
Welcome to the family of God and all which His heirs inherit now and in heaven for all time. The best is yet to come!
John 14:6 (KJV) Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
After reading this article, I wonder if God was pleased with a group of leaders, representing various religious beliefs, praying in unison for rain to end the month's long drought in Nevada and surrounding area.
Praying for rain brings to mind the Bible story when the prophet of God, Elijah told King Ahab it wouldn't rain for 3 1/2 years. God was judging Israel for all the idolatry. Idolatry was rampant from the top down. King Ahab worshiped Baal, the god of the weather.
Could the drought in the Western states be God holding back the rain clouds to get more to pray to Him, and not to idols?
God IS in control of the rain, fully and completely, as well as the wind, the climate, the tide, the moon, the stars...it is He, and He alone in control of what He created. False gods can't produce one single droplet.
All the various religious leaders together wouldn't make one bit of difference had they prayed day and night for an entire year.
This reminds me of another great Bible story, again with Elijah. The 450 prophets of Baal prayed long and hard to Baal, their god, but nothing happened. When Elijah prayed, God answered. This showed there was then and to this day now and forevermore only one, true God.
Praying to false gods is futile. There is only one, true God.
Rain will fall when God is ready and sees fit to send rain upon Nevada.
This author suggests to those critically needing rain to fall upon their land, consider pondering
if you may be delaying the release of rain with prayers to false gods and idol worship.
We're really all at the mercy of God every second of the day for all our needs, wants and desires. At any moment any of us could befall a number of situations of loss or of lack.
We've become very spoiled and comfortable in general with our possessions, lifestyles and freedoms we've been given and granted. All those things have a source, and, at any moment we could be in an earthquake, sudden high winds, a tornado, an electrical fire could break out in our home, the Earth open up and swallow your home, or auto or you, an insect or locust infestation wipe out an entire crop or widespread vegetation, or a blood clot suddenly lodge in our brain.
No one knows what the next moment might bring, know but we can know that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has proven over and over the truth of the matter that He is God and He can withhold rain or whatever He wishes to withhold or release as He wishes according to his perfect will.
When you want your prayers answered like Elijah had his prayers answered, doing what pleases God is a good way to get Him to answer and rather quickly, and in this matter of drought in Nevada, I would think answered prayers to God to shower down some liquid sunshine quickly would be most appreciated and welcomed.
If you don't have a clue what's you can do that's pleasing to God, take some time to read to get some clues in the Book. In order to receive your clues, you must have an open heart to receive a personal clues and message. In order to receive your message, your must first invite His precious gift into your heart. You will instantly receive supernatural faith to trust in the things you can't see with your human eyes, or touch with your hands, or reason through with human logic.
It starts with a change of heart and acknowledging you're helpless within your own efforts to please God. You take the first step of opening and trusting your heart to him and He will gladly give you all you need to please Him. You just have to ask and be willing to trust in Him, That's the biggest way to please Him and He gives you what you need to do that if you ask.
They do not say in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the Lord
our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the
spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.’
Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.
“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have
sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your
name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,
So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he
makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the
just and on the unjust.
Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, from the Lord who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.
And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, there will be no rain on them.
Final questions-If rain should fall from the sky in this area in much need of moisture..would the idol gods or the God of Abraham and Isaac receive the glory?
I believe God will not share glory with false gods. Why should the glory be shared?
False gods can do nothing?
They did not create anything but people worship and pray to them.
So perhaps when the people get truly desperate and finally come to the conclusion false gods can't come through, they will have to turn to the true God.
But until then, parched and dry conditions shall continue paralleling the people's allegiance and faith in which God they serve and worship.
Are your prayers going to a dead, lifeless, dry god or The God who makes and releases necessary water upon all living things?
Until next time, keep on the straight and narrow path.
I learn so much re-reading the foretelling of Christ's coming. I can only imagine the prophets telling of the Messiah but not fully understanding their predictions of the Messiah yet to come..
God saw well to preserve all the prophecies throughout the generations so we could read of them in the Holy Scriptures today.
I can imagine the Jewish people had all sorts of questions about the Messiah.
Who would be the Messiah? What would he do? Where would he come from? When would he arrive?
The Old Testament writings left clues and signs so the Messiah's identity would clearly prove it was him. None other than Jesus Christ positively fits the ID.
The Messiah would need to-
Be of a certain lineage
Be a male and be born of a virgin woman.
Make his arrival at a certain time and place.
Be received a certain way by his peers.
Be of a certain character in his day-to-day life as well as in his ministry.
Have someone preparing the way and announce that he was coming.
Be despised by his own people.
Be given up for a certain amount of silver.
Be mocked, pierced and crucified.
Be guilty of no violence.
Be laid in a rich man's grave.
Be resurrected.
There are Jews who do not believe Jesus is the Messiah. The word Messiahis Hebrew, and Christ is Greek. They both mean, the anointed One.
Back in biblical time, the Jews ( the religious ones) saw Jesus as an ordinary man. They didn't take kindly to him claiming to be God. That was blasphemy. Only God could forgive sins and Jesus claimed he could.
What the Jewish people didn't see was Jesus came first to save them spiritually. The Jews were heavily into the letter of the Law, but neglected to get their hearts right with God. Many times the Jewish people disobeyed God by worshiping idols and wanting to be ruled by kings instead of allowing God to rule over them. They got caught up in being doer's of the Law and kept adding to the Law thinking that keeping the Law made one righteous. But their hearts were not right with God. And yes, hearts can be hard and blind. The Lord looks inwardly to the heart, but they weren't seeking God within their hearts, they were focused on rules and do's and don'ts, living to please self andthinking their doings made them righteous. They were living to please themselves, not God, and this is known as being carnal-minded. God saw their 'righteous' attempts liken tofilthy rags because their hearts were far from God. Changing the heart. Filthy rags.
Jesus said he came not to condemn the world, but to save and forgive sins. He brought something new, and the Jews resisted the change from the Law. No one could keep the entire Law no matter how 'holy' they believed they were. Jesus ushered in a change, a change to 'grace'. The Jews were not aware their Messiah was to first set up his spiritual kingdom, for saving souls, as Redeemer. They missed this in the Old Testament teachings pertaining to the Messiah.
Jesus is from a Spiritual world. He did give up a certain part of his deity to walk in human form as a man. Jesus was still God, but he was also a man in order to satisfy and complete his Earthly mission to be the once-and-for-all sacrifice for all the sins of Man. His Earthly mission was to be obedient as a Son, allowing himself to become 'The' Sacrificial Lamb for all mankind. This sacrifice would need to be one super sacrifice, and only a god could fulfill that duty. Jesus did it all and was all-- Son of God, Son of Man, and the image of God almighty that we could see and touch. Our heavenly Father accepted and was well pleased in what Jesus did for you and I. Praise the Lord.
God in his deity is not bound to the limits we are. God is not relegated to the limits of gravity or time and space, and He is not held to operating within the logical thinking we understand and are bound to. God's above and beyond that. God is Spirit and Jesus is the image of the unseen Holy God. No person can possibly explain all He can do because we are incapable to realize His holiness, fullness, vastness, limit-less majestic-ness, and being the creator of the universe. Man is unable to fully comprehend what we can't measure, relate to, test or place under a microscope to study or dissect, let alone understand what's spiritually beyond our physical capacity to understand. We'd like to, but try as we may, there's no way to fully grasp the fullness of an infinite God. The physical and the spiritual are very different worlds.
Jesus fulfilled his part of coming and claiming victory over the spiritual kingdom of darkness. We are assured of that. While he walked on Earth, he taught about a new way, a new covenant with his disciples and to the Jews. And when he died, this new covenant was ushered in. The change was to be not of works, but faith and an change on the inside, bringing in a newness of spirit, one which was open to pleasing God with a repentant heart, acknowledging one's sins and seeing the need for Jesus to be one's Savior and Lord. This new covenant was for those who'd had a spiritual rebirth. This is what the disciples were learning from Jesus' teachings to the Jews, first. But the Jews as a whole rejected this new covenant. But some Jews believe in the new covenant that Jesus brought about.
Messianic Jews are sometimes known as, 'complete Jews'. They keep their Jewish identity and hold to their Jewish traditions, and they understand the Torah or law are God's guidelines for right and wrong for living a morally just life and the law explains what one must do in order to receive forgiveness for sins against God with a substitutionary sacrificial system.
Messianic Jews also accept and believe Jesus as their 'permanent' sacrificial Lamb, the 'suffering servant', who taught the spirit of the law is to be kept in the heart, which is a higher standard than the old letter of law. And knowing they can never keep to the letter of the law because of their sinful nature, this a new covenantis a more excellent covenant with forgiveness, grace and mercy. They know what's required is an exercise of faith, and a change of heart (Hebrews 8:6-Hebrews 9:26), and they know the fullness of the new covenant will be completed upon Christ's second coming, and Israel will also be restored to peace in their land.
The spirit of the law written upon your heart-love God & love your neighbor
Their are two spiritual kingdoms- the kingdom of God and the kingdom of satan.
Jesus came already for Part . He's not yet returned for Part 2, but that's coming soon. God's plan is still in the works. And God's plans never, ever fail.
God, His Son, the Messiah, the Holy Spirit are all in perfect harmony as One.
All God wants is your heart.
Your place in the plan is to give your heart to God, be obedient, and get on board with Jesus.
Jesus cleared the way so there would be no more need for sacrifices or wondering if you've done
good enough. All you have to do is give of your heart to God for all He's provided out of his tremendous love for one and all. This includes you. Jewish, Gentile, or whatever you call yourself.
Jesus brought in the New Covenant, a much better covenant than the first.The old was for but a little while to show that no man, woman or child could ever be good enough to keep all the law all the time.
For those who have to reason this out intellectually...
Don't be misdirected off of the Truth and forget that in Jesus the Father is well pleased. Jesus IS Lord. He is the Alpha and the Omega. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. He is the only
God-endorsed, approved way to heaven. Yes, heaven is a sin-free zone and the only way is Jesus.
Study the scriptures yourself until you find the answers. Allow the Holy Spirit to direct you in your studies. Don't let someone tell you....they could be spiritually blind and mislead you. That would be awful. Do your own searching and studying so no one but you and the Holy Spirit are communing to find the Truth for yourself, your soul and your spirit. Get a good Bible concordance. Do word study. The mysteries of the Bible can be solved for those who search and seek the Truth. Pray to have your eyes opened to see the spiritual, and allow
the peace of Christ to richly rule in your heart.
It's through the heart with a re-born spirit one can have a close relationship with a spiritual God.
God must be worshiped in spirit and in truth.
If you're Jewish or not Jewish, what matters is being faithful and obedient to what the Lord and Holy Scriptures have told.
No offense is intended to anyone and their beliefs.
The Good News of the gospel of Jesus Christ, who was sent to save all from the penalty of your sins is worth sharing so everyone can know they have a choice to make for their own soul.
Think spiritual. Think eternal. Think of the love God had to have to send His Son to be the sacrifice for mankind so you and I can live forever.
The human viewpoint is mainly from the perspective of the 'hear and now', or from where we stand, on what we know about things from what we've seen or heard during our lifetime.
That's our problem.
Our perspective is actually ultra-limited and confined. Most are unaware that the 'unseen' (spiritual) is responsible and behind what our physical eyes see.
Most are blindfolded to the thing concerning the Spirit
God, who is Divine Holy Spirit, has His plan all laid out and it's going according to the way He already, because He's omnipotent, knows how it's all going to proceed. And, thank God He is so patient about not hurrying up time any faster so more Jewish people can hear the gospel and come
to know of their Messiah).
Have you ever read a book before seeing the movie? You have a pretty good idea of the plot and already know ahead of time how the plot and story is going to end for the characters. This also means no matter how much we know or not know, agree or disagree about the end times, our opinions can't change the plot one bit. But you can change where you end up.
His Word is our 'spoiler alert'. (read and study the Bible so you know the ending and won't be caught off guard and regret for the rest of eternity)
What we can do is make plans to be either saved or unsaved, which could mean if you're alive when Christ returns, you would either be raptured or left behind. And until Jesus returns you can either spread the good news there's still time to get saved, or you can keep the good news to yourself. Those are your choices in the matter of these last days.
All which is transpiring in the Middle East, where God's plan using the Hebrew people began to bring about the Law, which from their history we see no one, not even the Jews can keep all the Law. The Law was meant to be a precursor of something better to come, a new Judaism, so to speak. The prophets recorded things which we can read about, and prophesied, about the coming Messiah, who was to be the One to save them. This area of the world is most likely where it's all going to crescendo and we can read about it and the history of this place and why there's so much conflict there. It's representative of the spiritual battle raging between the forces of good and evil. All in due time.
The ground work, the players, the tension...it's all accumulating and lining up for the last stanza.
God is not caught off guard. This is His baby. This is His song. His master plan. It's been long in the works and trucking along all in due time.
It took centuries, meer nanoseconds in God-time, for all the players and the circumstances to line up so Jesus could fulfill prophesy and be born at the time and place foretold long ago.
The current world events are part of the line-up of circumstances so that Jesus can come again and take the Church out of here.
The world is getting set for the anti-Christ to come onto the scene.
SIGNS THAT THE END TIMES/LAST DAYS ARE UPON US-
There will be more and more occurrences of people choosing a sinful lifestyle of lusting after the desires of their flesh and turning their backs to anyone or anything having to do with righteousness
or righteous living. This is one of the signs we're entering into the last days.
Israel has to be a Nation. This happened in1948.
The gospel must be preached throughout the whole
world. This is happening with missionaries and mass communication just about in every country.
Knowledge and travel must increase. We have this with computers, the Internet, and air flight.
A "falling away." of local churches and society in general. We have this with the help of false prophets, false doctrine, even churches that deny Christ. And we're seeing the legalization of same sex marriages and hearing of sex trafficking and adults raping children, all described as perversions. Those who find reason to delight in their perversions, they do not wish to be told anything contrary. They want others to be completely tolerant, and silenced to saying anything negative about their lifestyle. They want to practice their sin freely and legally without any associated guilt or retribution.
Sex was created and is a gift from God for intimacy between a husband and wife within a marriage relationship, which He also created. Sex represents the coming together of two flesh into one, for procreation, for enjoyment and for protecting the bond of marriage. When sex is practiced outside these boundaries, it represents the depravity within us.
2Timothy 3:16-17. Key words----reproof, correction and profitable, doctrine, instruction, perfect, good works.
(Take time to read for yourself about the promises God gave to Israel).
You've been alerted to the Spiritual viewpoint. God always keeps His promises.
The clock's a tickin', in human and spiritual time,
What are you going to be doing?
As for me, I'm on my journey, steady and sure along that narrow, straight path leading to my shining Savior. Peace.
We all have our beginnings of development within our Mother's womb. Mankind has had a fascination about what was before we came on the scene. We question that which we can't see. We search for answers. We form conclusions and think we have the answers. Does God exist?
Jesus, the Righteous Judge, will be upon his seat for every unsaved person to face
There have been some interesting arguments on this subject of how the world and the universe came about. Did God create it? Does He exist? Who can answer and who can answer correctly?
God tells us what's important for us to know. And that's all we really need to know. Other than that is purely guess work and imagination to satisfy our 'need-to-know and our egos.
No one can come back from eons ago, and all the scientific data is gathered from man-designed instruments. There are space stations and cameras floating about in outer-space, but they can only record the present. What happened long ago, is out of our reach and I will say we have enough to be concerned about right now in the present. Isn't it more important to be feeding the hungry and helping the hurting and needy people living right now?
I came across some interesting and informative writings on the proof that God exists.
These 6 reasons the author of this article writes can't be argued against if one has the least bit of common sense.
View this video detailing and describing 5 reasons God exists and Jesus was God in the flesh.
The last two minutes sum it up best.
If I ignored and refused to believe any of the above arguments, I'd have to conclude God exists because I'm breathing and living. Some divine force has to be at work allowing me to exist because I have nothing to do with making my lungs work or my brain function, or digest my food, or anything. My internal functions operate automatically. I am designed by a master creator.
My conclusion is we have a sovereign, loving and patient God. He could force us to love him and believe, but He decided to not violate the free will He gave to us. It is our choice to believe or not to believe.
Those with eyes to see and ears to hear, God speaks clearly and lovingly of His presence. Jesus came for us so we can relate to an unseen God.
When you see Jesus, you've seen the essence of God. And He so desires to have a relationship with you. And he loves you so much that He sent His Son to die for you so your sins can be forgiven.
The biggest lie you can believe is that God does not exist and that He sent you a way to restore rightful standing with him. That would be just what the enemy of God would have you believe.
Our only way back to good graces with the Heavenly Father in through Jesus, who gave his life so
all who believe upon him will live. And I'm talking about spiritual life. Our flesh will cease, but our spirits will live forever. We were created in God's everlasting, spiritual image. Heaven is for those who have chosen to have faith that Jesus is the Son of God and by his death on the Cross, his blood and death satisfied God as payment for your sins.
Just pray to God and tell Him you know you can't pay the price for your sins against Him. You need a Savior and you trust and believe Jesus came and died for your sins and you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior and thank him for giving you life and hope and a new direction. You are pasted from death to life just like that. Jesus did all the work. All you have to do is ask and believe. If you want to thank God, live for Christ. And to live for Christ, read His Holy Word and see what the Holy Spirit has for you. It's a journey that will lead to great things and best of all, the best is yet to come!!!!!
Allow me to shed some all revealing, bright light-of-truth on this matter.
God had long ago, prior to any men and prior to anything we know, had preparations already in the works to present His most precious gift of peace to mankind at His predetermined time.
The greatest story on Earth is the Christmas story- every thing leading up to the birth of Jesus, Emmanuel, and the greatest miracle that ever happened on Earth when a part of God became an innocent human baby boy, and who would grow as a normal male child and show and teach how we ought to live and demonstrate what God, the Father, is like and what he expects of us. His life, ministry, teachings, miracles, and his death were recorded so we can today read, study, learn and know what his mission was and why, and so we'd know why his life, death and resurrection are important to every soul in the world.
Keep Christ in Christmas and in your heart for real peace, love & joy
The miracle of Christmas is that no matter how awful mankind sinned against a loving, holy, sovereign God, God's plan had long been in motion through every generation until the set time with the sole purpose of redemption, providing mankind with a means upon which to be pardoned from the curse of spiritual death and be set free to enjoy life forever.
God's plan to send his Son, whom we call Jesus, to bear all penalty for all sin upon himself was God's masterful plan long before Man even was.
Jesus is God's peace-offering to us as a way to return to right and peaceful standing with our heavenly Father.
The spirit of Christmas is love, joy, peace, and giving.
This person writes about rediscovering the meaning of Christmas.
These gifts from our heavenly Father are given to us, all wrapped up in His Son, Jesus.
Jesus was presented to the world as a babe in a manger, surrounded by his Earthly parents, animals and shepherds. Jesus came to serve and save us from having to suffer the penalty of death we deserve, and through him we can enjoy the spirit of love, joy and peace forever.
In all the activities during the last month of the year, if you haven't already, this is the perfect time to accept 'The Gift.'
It's His gift to save your soul and redeem you back to righteous and peaceful standing with Him.
You may accept his gift at any time by opening your heart and accepting Jesus.
Jesus is THE best gift you can ever receive.
The gift of Jesus is the gift of life that never stops giving or loving
Christmas-time is celebrating the glorious miracle of the birth of the Christ-child, the long awaited Messiah, the Savior, which took place despite insurmountable odds.
God so loved the world, even long before we would know we would need Jesus, God knew.
It takes belief and faith to receive this 'above and beyond' gift from God because his gift is 'above and beyond' what any man could have ever envisioned.
From beginning to end, the long-in-the-works story of Jesus' coming has fingerprints of God all through it. It truly is a wonderful and marvelous story come true!
