Wake-Up Call

-- My father was rushed into emergency this mornin, I had a wake-up call. You know we get so caught up in all the commercial things and what are we gunna get outta Christmas. Really? My wake-up call showed me that we need to be thankful for what we already have! God blessed us with a family that is beyond beautiful! On the way to the hospital all I kept sayin is I cant lose my father, I cant lose my father. After many hours in the hospital we were thankful to hear that he only has a viral infection in the chest area... I dont know how to explain it, but thank God that he did not have a heart attack or a stroke or anything more serious. Yes he may be in pain, but he is home! God is good.
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*It Is Well With My Soul*
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We get so caught up in the commercial things, but look at the word Christmas. Christ-Mas . We have forgotten all about the true meanin of Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ.
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Great Commandment- Matthew 22:37-39 (NLT)

• 'You must love the Lord your God with all your hear, all your soul, and all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

Great Compassion- Matthew 25:44-45 (NLT)

• The they will reply, 'Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you?' And he will answer, 'I assure you, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.'

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-Us not helpin out the poor or helpin out someone who asks kindly and you are free, you are refusin to help the Lord our God.
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Great Commission- Matthew 28:18-20 (NLT)

• Jesus came and told his disciples, "I have been given complete authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the new commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

Jesus Christ came to the earth for us to know these things, to show these things and to do these things.

• You can pray
• You can give
• You can go

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I want to tell you one story.
-- Our Church's Children Ministry Leader went out just this past weekend to go get a nativity scene for the kids room, so that she could show them a model of Jesus Christ in a manger. She went all over the place and she decided well I'm gunna go to the Bay the Bay never lets me down. She went to the Christmas section she couldn't find one. So she went and found one of the ladies and asked her to you guys have a nativity scene? The lady looked at her and said what is that? Our Ministry Leader tried explainin it to her and she is like how do you spell that? ... She was goin to look it up in the computer.
-- You know there is one good example of how we are tryin to preach the word of God everywhere else except locally. This is what we were sent here to do. These people need to know who this wonderful creator is, the one who created their beautiful faces, the gorgeous flowers that bloom in the summer time, that created every single creature, the creator of the Universe! Someone along the way helped us. Now it's our turn to help someone else.
-- Have you realized that a Christmas gift can just be someone who gets saved by the Lord? Gifts mean nothin. Family means everythin! Wake-Up! It's our wake-up call. Just open those gorgeous eyes and see that you aren't in need for that new jacket, new pants, iPad, etc. some of those people don't have a shelter, clothing, shoes, food or even someone to love them. We can be that one.
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*To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world*
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Merry Christmas,
Cassandra Falun