verseoftheday

When the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, "It is a ghost!" And they cried out in fear. But immediately He spoke to them, saying, "Take courage, it is I! Do not be afraid!" Matthew 14:26-27AMP Take Courage! It's me! Jesus! Out of the dark in the middle of the storm...Jesus is there...with courage to spare. When we think we're at the  end of our resources, when our courage has all gone... Jesus appears. Sometimes we don't recognise him in the message from a friend, a touch, a word, a sermon, a song... the quiet voice It's gonna be OK I've already won the big battle for you In the end...there's nothing to fear... #nofear #onedayallwillbemadenew #outofthestorm #courage #hopehascome

This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about : His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Matthew 1:18 NIV Apart from Genesis 1:1 has there been a more understated description in the Bible of world defining events? God entered His story, wrote himself in to this little family in a tiny backwater town no one had heard of, where nothing good came from. In our world it seems to be about the big, noisy, the great... & if its not big its not important... But in God's economy it's often about the  understated, the quiet, the small...the humble... Every act of kindness, of grace, of forgiveness no matter how small or insignificant it may seem is part of God's restoration plan for this world... #christmas #jesusatthecentre #hopehascome

This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham:  Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers... Matthew 1:1-2:NIV 42 generations from the promises God made with Abraham to Jesus. 42 generations of looking, waiting...hoping for fulfillment... 42 generations of trying to fulfill the law, of rejecting God...and 42 generations of God's pursuit of us...his forgiveness...until...Jesus When it all changed. The covenant is fulfilled.  The law is fulfilled. God's grace has come, heaven had joined earth in the person of Jesus... #christmas #jesusatthecentre #hope #hopehascome