Message manger

The Message in the Manger

The Father loves to reveal Jesus to us through feasts & festivals, stories, metaphor, names and plays on words.

God’s first lesson to Israel was of the manna. It was to teach than mankind needs more than natural bread to thrive. We need the bread of God’s words spoken to us.

Jesus was the final word God spoke over his creation and He was the only word we needed.

Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the house of bread. In a teaching that caused nearly all who followed Him to walk away, Jesus called Himself the true bread from heaven. That His body was bread and His blood drink in which was the eternal life God sent Jesus to bring and be.

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Strengthen Testimony Timothy

Paul strengthens the Testimony of Christ in Timothy

Timothy seems to have been a bit of a momma’s boy. This was not bad, he was mightily used of God in Paul’s ministry. However, Timothy tended towards timidity which Paul addressed in both of his letters of encouragement to him.

Both Paul’s “type A” personality and Timothy’s timidity needed God’s grace to make them vessels of special purpose.

God does not rely upon our abilities. What He requires are hearts of submission and devotion which HE can empower.

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