The Me You Made With The Heart Of Christmas

 Luke 2 verse 11: Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.

Isaiah 7 verse 14: Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

2 Corinthians 9 verse 15: Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

John 1 verse 14: The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

1 John 5 verse 11: And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

Romans 5 verse 8: But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Zephaniah 3 verse 17: The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”

John 14 verse 6: Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Hebrews 4 verse 12: For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. 

Job 33 verse 4: The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Psalm 100 verse 3: Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Genesis 2 verse 7:  Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Psalm 139 verse 13-16: For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Ephesians 2 verse 10: For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. 

2 Timothy 3 verse 16-17: All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

John 1 verse 1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 

John 4 verse 24: God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

Ephesians 2 verse 9: Not by works, so that no one can boast.

Romans 10 verse 9: If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

John 16 verse 33:  “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

John 17 verse 23: I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

Psalm 37:4: Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Proverbs 3 verse 5-6 : Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

One of the things I realized is that when preparing this study in talking about scriptures that talked about Celebrating Christmas, the person God made us to be, and how We are Wonderfully Made, I realized that God is the author and finisher of our stories and we all have a testimony. Although that's not everything I realized in all of what we read in the scriptures tonight. This goes deeper into what I want to share with all of you to help you guys understand all of this tonight.

You see, my title for my study originally was going to be something like The Heart Of Christmas In The Me You Made or Christmas Heart In The Me You Made but my title ended up being The Me You Made With The Heart Of Christmas because it goes into a deeper meaning of Christmas as God’s beloved child with a heart for Christmas but we also see the people He made you and I to be can have a Heart of Christmas to know Hope returns, to know He’s the God Who Stays, and that there are songs that show Love On The Radio, while we are Walking Miracles and The Man Who Needed Grace isn’t too far gone, that we are never too far gone , Not Today or ever because with My Story for His Glory we’re a Nobody who tries to tell everybody about someone who saved our soul while walking in The Heart of Christmas to know and to see why we celebrate Christmas in who God made us to be this Christmas as Wonderfully made children of God.

Keep your Christmas-Heart open all year round.

Christmas Will Always Be As Long As We Stand Heart To Heart And Hand In Hand.

Christmas begins in God's Heart, and it is only complete when it reaches the heart of man.

Not good, not cool enough, Don't measure up, yeah I've had enough, Hey I don't wanna spend my life

Wishing I was different, That would be a waste of time, Cause I know You love me just as I am

And I know my God don't make mistakes, So, I'm just gonna be the me you made, The whole world is posting pictures, Looks like everybody else has a perfect life And we're just watching from the bleachers, Discontent and thinking wouldn't it be nice, But comparison is the thief of joy, Trust me, I know cause for way too long I let it steal my joy But not anymore, Hey I don't wanna spend my life

Wishing I was different, That would be a waste of time, Cause I know You love me just as I am And I know my God don't make mistakes, So, I'm just gonna be the me you made, Yeah, I'm just gonna be the me you made.

So this is how it feels when standing strong, Turns into barely even holding on, The plans you had are shattered on the floor And your fear tells your faith, There's no use in praying those prayers anymore

When your world is crashing, when your knees hit the ground, When your heart is asking, "What do I do now?" Just when you think it can't get worse, Hold on, that's when hope returns, Like a new sun breaking through the darkest night, Like a whisper saying, "It'll be alright", I know you're tired, I know it hurts, But hold on, that's when hope returns And that's when hope returns.

You're the God who stays, You're the God who stays, You're the one who runs in my direction

When the whole world walks away, You're the God who stands, With wide open arms, And You tell me nothing I have ever done can separate my heart, From the God who stays.

'Cause if you know, know, know Jesus, Like I know, know, know Jesus, Then you'll know, know, know the reason why, I'm putting love on the radio, Spreading joy everywhere I go, There's no way to hide my hope, oh, no, This little light of mine, Hey, I'm gonna let it shine, Telling the world who saved my soul, The only way I know, With love on the radio.

Oh, they're all around us everywhere we go, The proof that we should never give up hope, 'Cause we serve a God who turns impossible, Into living, breathing, walking miracles.

Now the man who needed grace still knows how to make a mess, There's never been a day that you found me perfect, All the grace just keeps on showin' me exactly what it is, A gift that goes to those who don't deserve it And nothing I could ever do, Compares to what's been done for me, I'm free and all because of you, My debt is paid, my sins are gone And my soul can't stop singing this victory song.

I listened to you yesterday, Now I need you to hear me say Not today, The father of lies will not have his way, Yesterday guilt had me digging my own grave, Sin had the final say But not today.

My story, Your glory, My pain, Your purpose, My mess, Your message, In all things, I know You're workin', One life, one mission, One reason why I'm livin', All for You, not for me, My story, Your glory.

Why You ever chose me, Has always been a mystery, All my life I've been told I belong, At the end of the line, With all the other not-quites, With all the never-get-it-rights, But it turns out they're the ones You were looking for All this time, 'Cause I'm just a nobody, Trying to tell everybody, All about Somebody, Who saved my soul, Ever since You rescued me, You gave my heart a song to sing, I'm living for the world to see, Nobody but Jesus, I'm living for the world to see, Nobody but Jesus.

Wherever you are, no matter how far, Come back to the heart, the heart of Christmas, Live while you can, cherish the moment And the ones that you love, make sure they know it, And don't miss it, the heart of Christmas.

In all of this tonight and everything I want to get across tonight in this entire study and the lyrics I shared with some quotes at the end as well, is that the Me You Made With The Heart Of Christmas study title is a sole reminder of this quote that I want to end on tonight and that is this: Jesus Is The Heart Of Christmas. Let us remember that this Christmas season as we are Made In His Image as His Beloved.