The Bible tells us to encourage others. Who have you deliberately encouraged this past week? Who will you deliberately encourage this week?

With what the Bible teaches and the things we see, we should be looking up and going all in.

The Bible is filled with great, practical wisdom and advice.

Read your Bible daily and it will give you daily wisdom and encouragement.

As a believer you’re gifted to see the Christmas Holy Day thru the eyes of faith.

Believers see the anchor and the hope of Christ in the Incarnation, when God became man, to be his Messiah. Those believers who focus on the goodness of God are amazed at Gods love and goodness.

Unbelievers elevate the goodness of man at this season, thinking that mankind can raise himself up to be better than who he is. Those unbelievers who focus on the goodness of man will always be disappointed.

The world says you can be happy by what you get in this world. Jesus says you make a life not by what you get, but by what you give in this world.

Very few people know how accurately the Bible predicts and prophesies the history of the world.

History proves that all these men in Luke 2 ruled at the same time, in the exact same year.

Out of the hundreds of persons, places, kings and kingdoms mentioned in the Bible, every single one of them have proven and validated the Bible to be true and correct. There has not been one single archaeological, geological, or historical discovery that does not verify the Bible. There has not been one discovery that disproves the Bible. Think about it.

Forgiveness for sins is only provided for thru the sacrifice of the death of Jesus on the cross.

When we consider Miriam and Joseph, and the wise men, we should not only consider what they gave the Lord Jesus, but consider they never held anything back from the Lord, not their past, not their families, their futures, their lives or their loved ones.

Prophecies in the Bible have been fulfilled with a pinpoint accuracy. Every prophecy in the Bible has either already come to pass or will come to pass.

The question is not what will you give to the Lord this year but given your fresh slate at the start of the year, will you hold anything back?

Since God has predicted with 100% accuracy in the past, how accurately will God predict the future? How should we respond? How should we then live?

12 Dear brothers and sisters, honor those who are your leaders in the Lord’s work. They work hard among you and give you spiritual guidance. 13 Show them great respect and wholehearted love because of their work. And live peacefully with each other.

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all.

Brothers and sisters, we urge you to warn those who are lazy. Encourage those who are timid. Take tender care of those who are weak. Be patient with everyone.

See that no one pays back evil for evil, but always try to do good to each other and to all people.

Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.

Do not scoff at prophecies,

but test everything that is said. Hold on to what is good.

Stay away from every kind of evil.

God will make this happen, for he who calls you is faithful.

Do not scoff at prophecies,

“Glory to God in highest heaven, and peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased.”

1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, 2 while Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

3 And He said to me: “Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day. 4 “For [they are] impudent and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’ 5 “As for them, whether they hear or whether they refuse--for they [are] a rebellious house--yet they will know that a prophet has been among them.

25 “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “You eat [meat] with blood, you lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land? 26 “You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and you defile one another’s wives. Should you then possess the land?” ’ 27 “Say thus to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “[As] I live, surely those who [are] in the ruins shall fall by the sword, and the one who [is] in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who [are] in the strongholds and caves shall die of the pestilence. 28 “For I will make the land most desolate, her arrogant strength shall cease, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through. 29 “Then they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have made the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.” ’

30 “As for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking about you beside the walls and in the doors of the houses; and they speak to one another, everyone saying to his brother, ‘Please come and hear what the word is that comes from the LORD.’ 31 “So they come to you as people do, they sit before you [as] My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, [but] their hearts pursue their [own] gain. 32 “Indeed you [are] to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument; 

“Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it.

I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation that will produce the proper fruit.

And Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not [one] stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

But he responded, “Do you see all these buildings? I tell you the truth, they will be completely demolished. Not one stone will be left on top of another!”

“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.

20 But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. 21 “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.” 22 So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: 23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”

26 Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name [was] Mary.

Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”

“For with God nothing will be impossible.”

1 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to [those who are] bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn, 3 To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.”

16 “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, 17 Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow. 18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.