Belated Merry Christmas 2011
It is never late to wish you a merry Christmas even though it looks like it passed. The message is still the same. The results still the same. Mary, young, unmarried, inexperienced, yet betrothed, engaged to Joseph, got pregnant with Jesus. This was a very strange situation that could even end in death for her. God works mysteriously and He is Lord of everything. How could a young virgin woman become pregnant without ever sexually knowing a a man? And how could just a woman be chosen to bear Jesus, God's own Son? Only a woman who did not amount to much in this culture and society! Jewish men prayed in the temple and thanked God for not making them a woman! Indeed God has a sense of humour!“34 How will this be, Mary asked the angel, since I am a virgin?
35 The angel answered, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.
36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month.
37 For nothing is impossible with God.
38 I am the Lord's servant, Mary answered. May it be to me as you have said. Then the angel left her.” (Luke 1)
Do you trust God to do the unnatural in your life or you are still waiting on the status quo?
Don't you think that if Mary had not been obedient to God's angel she would have missed the chance to be blessed among women? Luke 1:46-55Do you have missed opportunities in you life by not being obedient to the angels God has sent your way?
This is the time to trust God and obey His messengers. Do not let opportunities pass you by just because they don't fit what you know, what you are used to or what you think. Do not be bound down by the created natural or physical principles that the Creator created. For the Creator can change the creation. The Potter can change the pottery. For God is still Sovereign, the LORD of lords, the King of kings, the LORD Almighty, the Great I AM, Alpha and Omega, has no beginning no end. There is still nothing impossible with God.
And A Happy and Prosperous 2012
As we usher in 2012 let us look at another young virgin woman, Hadassah, Mordecai's cousin, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This girl, who was also known as Esther, was lovely in form and features, and Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.When the king's order and edict had been proclaimed, many girls were brought to the citadel of Susa and put under the care of Hegai. Esther also was taken to the king's palace and entrusted to Hegai, who had charge of the harem.
Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so.
Every day he walked to and fro near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her.
When the turn came for Esther (the girl Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail) to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king's eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favour of everyone who saw her.
Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favour and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.
And the king gave a great banquet, Esther's banquet, for all his nobles and officials. He proclaimed a holiday throughout the provinces and distributed gifts with royal liberality.
But Esther had kept secret her family background and nationality just as Mordecai had told her to do, for she continued to follow Mordecai's instructions as she had done when he was bringing her up. (Esther 2)
Do you use wisdom in your daily deliberations? Do you use discretion with whoever you deal with? Do you have to say everything about you especially in this age of digital and permanent information? Do you liberally splash yourself in the digital age or are you conservative? Do you ever think about your being wherever you are in time as a divine appointment? Do you respect and obey those whom God has put in your life over you? These may be blood relatives. They may be non relatives like Hegai, the eunuch. Do you see beyond the visible inabilities or physical inabilities of those God has put charge over you? Esther could have chosen to be disobedient, but she did not. My Sister, my Brother, these are the times when to be obedient is out of fashion, yet disobedience is the normal.
This is your Year for just one night with the King that can change everything in your life from little to more. However, one night with the King took preparation of more than one night, but years in the making, just like Queen Esther.
All is not lost, if you haven't been obedient, begin from today, now.
Whoever has been in your life and is in your life is for your preparation. Humility is a part of obedience. Obedience is a key to a wholly prosperous and long life.
Welcome into 2012. God bless you as you obey.
Rev. Jessica Nakawombe
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