{"id":358,"date":"2014-12-25T21:55:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T21:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/?p=358"},"modified":"2015-01-04T00:00:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T00:00:51","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

May the God of all- bless you with the grace to see and embrace the greatest truth.\u00a0 That God gave His Son to make away for us to experience His love and deliver us from the wages of sin, which is death or better said eternal separation from God.\u00a0 The original intent of God has always been good will to all people.\u00a0 May you enjoy the wonder of an encounter with the God who loves us and gave Himself for us.\u00a0\u00a0 Most have heard the story of the baby born in a barn and laid in a manger.\u00a0 Not many know what it is all about.\u00a0 The good news is He died\u00a0to free us from the penalty of our sins.\u00a0 This gives us an opportunity to live for Him and spend eternity with Him in heaven when the body\u00a0dies. We have only to ask Him and He will help us see Him for who He is.\u00a0\u00a0 My Christmas gift to my readers is a prayer for you all to embrace the truth and stop trying so hard to keep a lie alive.\u00a0 Santa is not what our\u00a0children need- Jesus is.\u00a0 Santa will not pay the elaborate bills\u00a0or\u00a0get them\u00a0reservations into heaven.\u00a0 Jesus is the only way\u00a0 and His death on the cross is what it took to give us access.\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0most valuable and important gift ever given was His life.\u00a0\u00a0 But like any gift- if we do not know about it or open it, we cannot enjoy the benefits or see the value, of it.\u00a0\u00a0 I pray you and all you care about will have a Merry Christmas and\u00a0\u00a0share the kindness and mercy of God with others.\u00a0 May He protect you and yours, give you wisdom for the days ahead, and grant you\u00a0the grace to see, turn and repent to receive His gifts of forgiveness and eternal life in heaven.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0His birthday celebration is to remind us of\u00a0 the greatest gift ever given- I pray this year you will open the present- and find the multiple other gifts inside.\u00a0\u00a0 Too many\u00a0know the story but\u00a0 too few\u00a0 understand and enjoy this priceless\u00a0provision.\u00a0 This one decision positions us to access so many other promises that\u00a0reveal Jesus as the gift that keeps on giving.\u00a0 His life\u00a0 was given to remove the\u00a0 penalties of sin and restore us to right relationship with God.\u00a0\u00a0 We have the right to free will and choice and He will not violate it.\u00a0The bible say the wages of sin is death.\u00a0 Jesus paid those wages with His life so that who-so-ever- would dare to\u00a0 believe for the\u00a0 asking could be made, not guilty<\/strong>– at His expense.\u00a0 More at:\u00a0why Jesus <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May the God of all- bless you with the grace to see and embrace the greatest truth.\u00a0 That God gave His Son to make away for us to experience His love and deliver us from the wages of sin, which is death or better said eternal separation from God.\u00a0 The original intent of God has … Continue reading Merry Christmas<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}