Preparing for Christmas

This Sunday is the start of Advent. Advent is the season when Christians prepare for Christmas.
The word Advent comes from the Latin word adventus which means: arrival or coming.

What is Christmas? Why do we celebrate Christmas? How do we prepare for Christmas?

Christmas is when we celebrate Jesus' birth.

Christmas is about celebrating the fact that God cared about us so very much that He, the Almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth and the whole universe, chose to enter this world as a human baby in order to restore our broken relationship with Him. He came to be the Light of the world, to redeem us, to rescue us and to give us Eternal Life.

At Christmas we re-tell the miraculous story of Jesus' coming into the world and we look forward to His coming again.

During Advent we prepare for Christmas by thanking God for Jesus' first coming into the world as a baby but also we thank God the Father for Jesus' presence among us today through the Holy Spirit and we look forward to His final coming.

We are ready for Christmas not when all the traditional preparations are done but when our heart is ready to receive Christ fully and to surrender ourselves fully to Him and to His will, to give up on what we want and to seek that what He wants by following Him, and having a personal relationship with Him. Part of our preparation for Christmas involves hearing the word of God and spending time in prayer and worshiping our Lord.

So why not come and join us at our next International Ministry?

We would love to receive you there and share this special time with you!

Next International Ministry:

Sunday 6 of December at 15:00 hours.

FeG Wienhausen, Bahnhofstrasse 24 - 29342 Wienhausen

For further information please e-mail BeatrizCustodio-Strachan@gmx.de

'...Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD Almighty. Zechariah 4:6b

This Bible verse has been the inspiration for 2015 in the International Ministry.

We have throughout this year concentrated on God's word about the Holy Spirit.

God desires for us that we do not live our lives in our human might or in our human power. His wish for us is that we live our lives and do everything in our lives through the might and power of His Holy Spirit.

When we live our lives in our human strength we quickly grow tired and tend to give up on God's call for our life. Of course we get physically tired, our human bodies do get tired, but it is spiritual and emotional tiredness that I speak about here. In order to stay strong spiritually we need the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

God created each one of us for a purpose. We are on this earth to fulfil that purpose and in order to do so, we need to have to power of the Holy Spirit working within us and through us.

Whether we need to cope with illness or defeat temptation, live life in our families or communities, whether we are serving God in a quiet way or in the midst of a public calling, we need to be able to rely not in our human might and power but in the might and power of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is there to guide us, to comfort us, to show us the way and to lead us to live the life that God intended for us to live.

Bringing God's purpose for our lives to completion is only achieved through the power of the Holy Spirit, in complete surrender to God, having given Him the control over our lives and of our hearts and minds.

Only when God is in full control of our lives and we live through the power of His Holy Spirit do we live life like God created us to live it.

If you would like information about the next International Ministry please e-mail:
BeatrizCustodio-Strachan@gmx.de

Our Bible Study in English continues on Friday's at 18:30 hours. If you would like to attend the Bible Study please send an e-mail to BeatrizCustodio-Strachan@gmx.de  for further details and the address where the Bible Study takes place.

Be Blessed on this day with the might and power of the Holy Spirit in your Christian life.

In His service,

Beatriz