Merry Christmas Celebration

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Christmas

We wish you happy Christmas and may the joy and blessing of the season fill your home with peace, protection and good health.

Christmas is the celebration of the Birth of Jesus Christ, the saviour of the world as captioned in Isaiah 7: 14.

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;  Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall  call his name Immanuel.

The Birth of Jesus Christ according to Luke One

  • Luke 1:1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth  in order a declaration of those things which are most surely  believed among us, 
  • Luke 1:2 Even as they delivered them unto  us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and  ministers of the word; 
  • Luke 1:3 It seemed good to me also,  having had perfect understanding of all things from the very  first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,  
  • Luke 1:4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things,  wherein thou hast been instructed.  
  • Luke 1:5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea,  a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and  his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name  was Elisabeth. 
  • Luke 1:6 And they were both righteous before  God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of  the Lord blameless. 
  • Luke 1:7 And they had no child, because  that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well  stricken in years. 
  • Luke 1:8 And it came to pass, that while he  executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his  course, 
  • Luke 1:9 According to the custom of the priest’s office,  his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of  the Lord. 
  • Luke 1:10 And the whole multitude of the people  were praying without at the time of incense. 
  • Luke 1:11 And  there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on  the right side of the altar of incense. 
  • Luke 1:12 And when  Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon  him. 
  • Luke 1:13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not,  Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth  shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.  
  • Luke 1:14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many  shall rejoice at his birth. 
  • Luke 1:15 For he shall be great in the  sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong  drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from  his mother’s womb. 
  • Luke 1:16 And many of the children of  Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. 
  • Luke 1:17 And he  shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn  the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient  to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared  for the Lord. 
  • Luke 1:18 And Zacharias said unto the angel,  Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my  wife well stricken in years. 
  • Luke 1:19 And the angel answering  said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of  God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these  glad tidings. 
  • Luke 1:20 And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and  not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be  performed, because thou believest not my words, which  shall be fulfilled in their season. 
  • Luke 1:21 And the people  waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long  in the temple. 
  • Luke 1:22 And when he came out, he could not  speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a  vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and  remained speechless. 
  • Luke 1:23 And it came to pass, that, as  soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he  departed to his own house. 
  • Luke 1:24 And after those days his  wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months,  saying, 
  • Luke 1:25 Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days  wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach  among men. 
  • Luke 1:26 And in the sixth month the angel  Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named  Nazareth, 
  • Luke 1:27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose  name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s  name was Mary. 
  • Luke 1:28 And the angel came in unto her,  and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is  with thee: blessed art thou among women. 
  • Luke 1:29 And  when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and  cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.   
  • Luke 1:30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou  hast found favour with God. 
  • Luke 1:31 And, behold, thou shalt  conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call  his name JESUS. 
  • Luke 1:32 He shall be great, and shall be  called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give  unto him the throne of his father David: 
  • Luke 1:33 And he shall  reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom  there shall be no end. 
  • Luke 1:34 Then said Mary unto the  angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? 
  • Luke 1:35  And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost  shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall  overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall  be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. 
  • Luke 1:36 And,  behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son  in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was  called barren. 
  • Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be  impossible. 
  • Luke 1:38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of  the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the  angel departed from her. 
  • Luke 1:39 And Mary arose in those  days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of  Juda; 
  • Luke 1:40 And entered into the house of Zacharias, and  saluted Elisabeth. 
  • Luke 1:41 And it came to pass, that, when  Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in  her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:  
  • Luke 1:42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said,  Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit  of thy womb. 
  • Luke 1:43 And whence is this to me, that the  mother of my Lord should come to me? 
  • Luke 1:44 For, lo, as  soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the  babe leaped in my womb for joy. 
  • Luke 1:45 And blessed is  she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those  things which were told her from the Lord. 
  • Luke 1:46 And Mary  said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, 
  • Luke 1:47 And my spirit  hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. 
  • Luke 1:48 For he hath  regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold,  from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.  
  • Luke 1:49 For he that is mighty hath done to me great things;  and holy is his name. 
  • Luke 1:50 And his mercy is on them  that fear him from generation to generation. 
  • Luke 1:51 He hath  shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in  the imagination of their hearts. 
  • Luke 1:52 He hath put down the  mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.  
  • Luke 1:53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the  rich he hath sent empty away. 
  • Luke 1:54 He hath holpen his  servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy; 
  • Luke 1:55 As he  spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.  
  • Luke 1:56 And Mary abode with her about three months, and  returned to her own house. 
  • Luke 1:57 Now Elisabeth’s full  time came that she should be delivered; and she brought  forth a son. 
  • Luke 1:58 And her neighbours and her cousins  heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and  they rejoiced with her. 
  • Luke 1:59 And it came to pass, that on  the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they  called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. 
  • Luke 1:60  And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be  called John. 
  • Luke 1:61 And they said unto her, There is none of  thy kindred that is called by this name. 
  • Luke 1:62 And they  made signs to his father, how he would have him called.  
  • Luke 1:63 And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying,  His name is John. And they marvelled all. 
  • Luke 1:64 And his  mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed,  and he spake, and praised God. 
  • Luke 1:65 And fear came on all  that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were  noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.  
  • Luke 1:66 And all they that heard them laid them up in their  hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the  hand of the Lord was with him. 
  • Luke 1:67 And his father  Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, 
  • Luke 1:68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he  hath visited and redeemed his people, 
  • Luke 1:69 And hath  raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his  servant David; 
  • Luke 1:70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy  prophets, which have been since the world began: 
  • Luke 1:71  That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the  hand of all that hate us; 
  • Luke 1:72 To perform the mercy  promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy  covenant; 
  • Luke 1:73 The oath which he sware to our father  Abraham, 
  • Luke 1:74 That he would grant unto us, that we  being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve  him without fear, 
  • Luke 1:75 In holiness and righteousness  before him, all the days of our life. 
  • Luke 1:76 And thou, child,  shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go  before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; 
  • Luke 1:77 To  give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the  remission of their sins, 
  • Luke 1:78 Through the tender mercy of  our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited  us, 
  • Luke 1:79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in  the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.   
  • Luke 1:80 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and  was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel. 

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