CHRISTMAS NUGGETS

CHRISTMAS NUGGETS

·         JESUS CHRIST IS THE CELEBRANT; THE REASON FOR THE SEASON.

 ·         IF A CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION IS IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, CELEBRATING IT WITH A CORRECT REASON AND IN A CORRECT WAY DESPITE HOW IT IS CELEBRATED BY SO MANY PEOPLE DOES NOT MAKE ITS CELEBRATION UNGOLDLY NOR UNBIBLICAL. HENCE, THE CELEBRATION OF CHRISTMAS CAN STILL BE ON COURSE IF IT IS CELEBRATED WITH THE CORRECT CAUSE.

·         CHRISTMAS IS ABOUT THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST WHO THOUGH BORN IN A DEMEANED PLACE CAME TO THE WORLD TO SAVE US FROM OUR SINS AND RESTORE US TO A WARM FELLOWSHIP WITH THE FATHER.

·         THE SEASON OF CHRISTMAS IS A SEASON WHERE THE FULLNESS OF TIME CAN BE FULFILLED IN A MAN’S LIFE. IT IS A PERIOD IN WHICH GOD’S PURPOSE CAN BE BORN IN YOUR LIFE.

·         “MARY BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRSTBORN SON…” COULD MEAN THAT YOU CAN BREAK FORTH INTO GOD’S DIVINE ORDINATION AND PURPOSE FOR YOUR LIFE THIS SEASON IF YOU HAVE HITHERTO NOT COME INTO IT.

 ·         IT IS AN ERROR TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS WITH FEASTINGS AND LOTS MORE WHEN INFACT YOU HAVE NOT FATHOM YOUR PURPOSE FOR CREATION. IT IS PURPOSELESS TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS WHEN YOU HAVE NOT DERIVED YOUR PURPOSE FOR EXISTENCE AND LIVING. TODAY, YOU CAN BREAK FORTH INTO THE PURPOSE (S) OF GOD FOR YOUR LIFE IF ONLY YOU WILL CREATE ROOM FOR THE CELEBRANT THIS SEASON.

 ·         CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION IS ALSO A SEASON WHEN THAT WHICH IS CONCEIVED OF THE HOLY GHOST IN OUR LIVES CAN BE ACTUALIZED. GOD’S PURPOSE AND COUNSEL CAN BE CERTAINLY BORN IN OUR LIVES IF IT’S TIME FOR MANIFESTATION IS FULLY COME.

 ·         THE POSSIBILITY OF ACCESSING AND ACTUALIZING GOD’S PURPOSE THIS SEASON OF CHRISTMAS IS DEPENDENT ON WHETHER YOU WILL CREATE ROOM FOR JESUS CHRIST IN THE INN OF YOUR HEART. WOULD YOU CREATE A SPACE FOR JESUS IN YOUR HEART THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON?

·         AN INN IS A LODGING PLACE; A GUEST CHAMBER; A PLACE OF REST; A LODGMENT AND AN ENCAMPMENT. THIS INN HAPPENED TO BE A PLACE JESUS CHRIST WAS DENIED ACCESS TO BE GIVEN BIRTH TO BY THE INN-KEEPER.

 ·         IF THE INN KEEPER WAS SENSITIVE TO KNOW THAT IN THE WOMB OF MARY WAS JESUS CHRIST THE SAVIOUR OF THE WHOLE WORLD, HE WOULD HAVE CREATED A ROOM FOR MARY AND JOSEPH IN THE INN OR EVEN IN HIS PRIVATE CHAMBERS/RESIDENCE.

    

·         THE BIBLE DIDN’T RECORDED THE NAME (S) OF THE INN-KEEPER (S) WHO BOLDLY TOLD MARY AND JOSEPH THAT THERE WAS NO ROOM AGAIN FOR THEM IN THE INN, BUT ONE THING I AM FULLY AWARE OF IS THE FACT THAT THE INN-KEEPER SQUANDERED THE OPPORTUNITY OF HIM BEING ASSOCIATED WITH THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST.

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·         THE INN-KEEPER WAS INSENSITIVE TO THAT WHICH WAS CONCEIVED IN THE WOMB OF MARY, HENCE, MISSED THE CHANCED OF HIS NAME BEING CAPTURED IN THE ANAL OF HISTORY.

 

·         IN RELATION TO OUR LIVES, OUR HEART IS THE INN (PLACE OF LODGMENT) WHERE JESUS CHRIST WANTS TO DWELL THIS SEASON AND BEYOND, SO THAT HIS PURPOSES AND PLANS FOR OUR LIVES CAN BE ACTUALIZED.

 

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·         NOT ONLY IS OUR HEARTS THE INN, BUT THAT WE ARE THE INN-KEEPER WHO CAN DETERMINE WHETHER JESUS CHRIST SHOULD DWELL IN OUR INN (HEART) TO BIRTH HIS PURPOSE IN AND THROUGH US OR HE DECIDES TO FIND A MANGER ENVIRONMENT (MOST DESPISED PEOPLES/THINGS) TO STILL BRING HIS PURPOSE INTO ACTUALIZATION.

 

·         CHRISTMAS SEASON IS A SEASON WHERE JESUS CHRIST WANTS TO FIND A DWELLING PLACE IN OUR LIVES FOR INTIMACY AND FOR PERMANENT DWELLING. JESUS CHRIST IS THE CELEBRANT AND HE WANTS TO DWELL IN THE INN OF YOUR HEART FOR AN EVERLASTING DWELLING AND/OR FOR FELLOWSHIP.

·         HE KNOCKS AT THE HEART OF UNBELIEVERS IN ORDER FOR HIM TO FIND A PERMANENT RESIDENCE IN THEIR LIVES, WHILE HE KNOCKS AT THE HEART OF BELIEVERS FOR CONTINUOUS INTIMACY. SO, WHOSOEVER YOU ARE; YOU WOULD NEED CHRIST THIS SEASON FOR A DWELLING PLACE IN YOUR HEART OR TO BE DRAWN TO A MORE INTIMATE FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM IN THE SECRET PLACE.

·         CHRISTMAS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO CREATE A ROOM FOR JESUS CHRIST THIS SEASON. HE IS KNOCKING AT THE DOOR OF YOUR INN (HEART), THEREFORE, DON’T HEAR HIS VOICE AND REFUSE GIVEN HIM ACCESS TO COME IN AND DINE WITH YOU. DON’T BE INSENSITIVE LIKE THE INN-KEEPER WHO COULD TELL MARY AND JOSEPH THAT THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR THEM IN THE INN BECAUSE OF HIS UNAWARENESS TO PERCEIVE THE MESSIAH IN THE WOMB OF MARY.·          

·         THE CELEBRANT HAPPENS TO BE JESUS CHRIST. HE IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON. OUR HEART IS THE INN WHILE WE ARE THE INN-KEEPERS. WE ALONE CAN DECIDE TO SHUT-UP COMPLETELY THE BIRTHINGS OF CHRIST’ PURPOSES IN OUR LIVES OR DECIDE TO GIVE ACCESS FOR HIS PURPOSES TO THRIVE IN AND THROUGH OUR VESSELS.·          

·         JESUS CHRIST AS THE CHIEF CELEBRANT OF CHRISTMAS SEEKS AN OCCASION TO FIND ACCESS INTO OUR HEARTS FOR A PERMANENT DWELLING OR/AND FOR INTIMACY.·          

·         CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION WITHOUT CHRIST IS CRISIS. CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION WITHOUT CHRIST IS CAUSELESS. CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION WITHOUT CHRIST IS NOTHING BUT A WASTE OF TIME. CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION WITHOUT HIM FINDING ACCESS INTO THE INN OF YOUR HEART IS NOTHING BUT A PURPOSELESS CELEBRATION. INDEED, CHRISTMAS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO CREATE OUR ROOMS FOR JESUS CHRIST TO LIVE AND RUN OUR LIVES. 

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year

 

WRITTEN AND EDITED

BY

SAMSON OKPANACHI DANIEL

 

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CHRISTMAS: AN OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE ROOM FOR THE CELEBRANT!!!

 CHRISTMAS: AN OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE ROOM FOR THE CELEBRANT!!!

It is worthy to note that no celebration happens without a reason. We are in a season of celebration called Christmas. I grew up seeing people celebrating Christmas without a cause. But, in this small piece, I would want to draw our attention to the fact that Christmas is about the celebrant. You may want to ask, who is this celebrant? In a simple response to the question of your heart, I want to categorically respond by saying that Jesus Christ is the celebrant; the reason for the season.

 

I am fully aware that some persons and Church denominations don’t believe in the celebration of Christmas partly because of the causelessness and the carelessness of how it is celebrated and also on the ground that it is not out-rightly stipulated as an injunction for us to commemorate in the Holy Bible. In my simple opinion to these reasons, I would want you to know that if a celebration is in the name of Jesus Christ, celebrating it with a correct reason and in a correct way despite how it is celebrated by so many people does not make its celebration ungoldly nor unbiblical. Hence, the celebration of Christmas can still be on course if it is celebrated with the correct cause. 

 

It is pertinent to know that Christmas celebration is a window for us to create room for the celebrant (Christ). Christmas is about the birth of Jesus Christ who though born in a demeaned place came to the world to save us from our sins and restore us to a warm fellowship with the Father. I was drawn to a bible passage of Luke 2:6-7 (KJV) which says that “And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.” At this point, Joseph and Mary were in Bethlehem to be censused as citizens of that city. But it so happened that the days of Mary’s fullness of time came for her to be delivered of her firstborn son in this period of census. This suggests that the season of Christmas is a season where the fullness of time can be fulfilled in a man’s life. It is a period in which God’s purpose can be born in your life. “Mary brought forth her firstborn son…” could mean that you can break forth into God’s divine ordination and purpose for your life this season if you have hitherto not come into it. It is an error to celebrate Christmas with feastings and lots more when infact you have not fathom your purpose for creation. It is purposeless to celebrate Christmas when you have not derived your purpose for existence and living. Today, you can break forth into the purpose (s) of God for your life if only you will create room for the celebrant this season. The fullness of time for the delivery of Jesus Christ could not be aborted on the account of the inn-keeper not reserving a room for Mary and Joseph in the inn. Jesus’s birth was unstoppable because He was conceived of the Holy Ghost. Christmas celebration is also a season when that which is conceived of the Holy Ghost in our lives can be actualized. God’s purpose and counsel can be certainly born in our lives if it’s time for manifestation is fully come. Verse 7 of Luke 2 opined that: “And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.” In reality, the possibility of accessing and actualizing God’s Purpose this season of Christmas is dependent on whether you will create room for Jesus Christ in the inn of your heart. Would you create a space for Jesus in your heart this Christmas season?

 

What is an Inn? Further to this question is this: why is Christmas a season of creating a room for Jesus Christ in your heart?

An Inn is a lodging place; a guest chamber; a place of rest; a lodgment and an encampment. This Inn happened to be a place Jesus Christ was denied access to be given birth to by the inn-keeper. I submit that Jesus Christ was denied access because of the insensitivity of the inn-keeper to perceive who Virgin Mary was carrying in her womb. If the Inn keeper was sensitive to know that in the womb of Mary was Jesus Christ the saviour of the whole world, he would have created a room for Mary and Joseph in the Inn or even in his private chambers/residence. For every inn, there is an inn-keeper. The bible didn’t recorded the name (s) of the inn-keeper (s) who boldly told Mary and Joseph that there was no room again for them in the inn, but one thing I am fully aware of is the fact that the inn-keeper squandered the opportunity of him being associated with the birth of Jesus Christ. The inn-keeper was insensitive to that which was conceived in the womb of Mary, hence, missed the chanced of his name being captured in the anal of history.  

 

As earlier stated above, the inn happened to be a place of lodgment and encampment. In relation to our lives, our heart is the inn (place of lodgment) where Jesus Christ wants to dwell this season and beyond, so that His purposes and plans for our lives can be actualized. Not only is our hearts the inn, but that we are the inn-keeper who can determine whether Jesus Christ should dwell in our inn (heart) to birth His purpose in and through us or He decides to find a manger environment (Most despised peoples/things) to still bring his purpose into actualization. In a nutshell, Christmas season is a season where Jesus Christ wants to find a dwelling place in our lives for intimacy and for permanent dwelling. Jesus Christ is the celebrant and He wants to dwell in the inn of your heart for an everlasting dwelling and/or for fellowship. Jesus is knocking at the heart of both unbelievers and believers this season of Christmas. He knocks at the heart of unbelievers in order for Him to find a permanent residence in their lives, while He knocks at the heart of believers for continuous intimacy. So, whosoever you are; you would need Christ this season for a dwelling place in your heart or to be drawn to a more intimate fellowship with Him in the secret place. The book of Revelation 3:20 (KJV) says that “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” The bible says “…if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him…” This is suggestive to the fact that Christmas celebration is about the celebrant (Christ) finding entrance into the heart of anyone who wishes to open his or her inn (heart) for Christ. There is no doubt therefore to say that Christmas is an opportunity for you to create a room for Jesus Christ this season. He is knocking at the door of your inn (heart), therefore, don’t hear His voice and refuse given him access to come in and dine with you. Don’t be insensitive like the Inn-keeper who could tell Mary and Joseph that there was no room for them in the inn because of his unawareness to perceive the Messiah in the womb of Mary.     

 

The Celebrant happens to be Jesus Christ. He is the reason for the season. Our heart is the inn while we are the inn-keepers. We alone can decide to shut-up completely the birthings of Christ’ purposes in our lives or decide to give access for His purposes to thrive in and through our vessels. Jesus Christ as the Chief celebrant of Christmas seeks an occasion to find access into our hearts for a permanent dwelling or/and for intimacy. Christmas celebration without Christ is crisis. Christmas celebration without Christ is causeless. Christmas celebration without Christ is nothing but a waste of time. Christmas celebration without Him finding access into the inn of your heart is nothing but a purposeless celebration. Indeed, Christmas is an opportunity for us to create our rooms for Jesus Christ to live and run our lives.

 

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year

 

WRITTEN AND EDITED

BY

SAMSON OKPANACHI DANIEL

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