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Ephesians 1:3  NLT

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.


We really are blessed.  Look around and count your blessings rather than loathing or complaining about what you don’t have.  That is easy to do, confusing our problems with our blessings.


When we are distracted, we will not see what God is doing.  Have you noticed that?


Signs of the Christmas season are all around.  The lights and the decorations.  The music and the holiday festivities.


All around us are also needs that stand open for us to help with.  Can you do something about those?  I did not ask if you can fix the problems of the world.  I did not ask if you can change all the people who are struggling or the governments that seem to be missing the most important.  I asked how can you help?


I assert that one of the best ways to help is to recognize how blessed you are.  Count your blessings.  Name them.  Write them down.  Stop and thank God for the blessings.  Some of those are people, and tell them how blessed they make you.  Thank God for what you do have and not what you don’t.


That recognition will make meeting needs a little easier.  


Last Sunday we handed our people at church a small bag with some items to give away this week.  It wasn’t much.  In each bag was a card that pointed people to some videos and to our church services.  My prayer is that each recipient will see or hear or know who God is AND how much God loves them.  I cannot wait to hear how those little bags impacted some lives, but we might never know.  But God knows.


Recognize your blessings, and then choose to be a blessing to someone this weekend and this Christmas season!


Job 29:13  NLT

I helped those without hope, and they blessed me. And I caused the widows’ hearts to sing for joy.


Psalm 31:19  NLT

How great is the goodness you have stored up for those who fear you. You lavish it on those who come to you for protection, blessing them before the watching world.


We are blessed to be a blessing to others!


NOTE: there will be a work day at our new campus tomorrow, December 11th, beginning just after 8am.  Come out and help.  Then plan to join us for worship this Sunday at 10:10 and Saturday for our addiction ministry worship at 6pm.

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