Christmas 2024 lessons
Dear Slavic Christian,
How was your Christmas?
“Mary did you know,” was my song this season.
To think that my son I’ve longed for, nurtured within me for 9 months, and labored to deliver would suffer and die for my sins is too much to bear.
I can’t imagine what it was like for Mary to see Christ betrayed, brutally whipped beyond recognition, and nailed to a cross to die for people who would keep going back to the bondage He saved them from is unimaginable.
But she obeyed God anyway and accepted this child and ministry.
Dear mamas, what if the sleeping child you’re holding, which may not be easy to care for at times or tests your patience, is an extension of THE GREAT I AM?
What if you knew that your child(ren) are the Kingdom on Earth- kings and priests were created FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS?
Would you be obedient and disciple (train and teach) them to become evangelists, teachers of the Word, healers of wounded hearts, deliverers of demonic oppression, prophets, prayer warriors, etc?
How would you interact with and guide them daily if you knew the great mission that God created them for? Truth is, no matter who they become, simply because they bear His image makes their existence matter. But more so, their lives are not a chance or coincidence. God “knew them before He created the,m” writes prophet Jeremiah. He created them to have a relationship with each one of your children uniquely. He wants to speak to them and for them to learn how to hear His voice.
Think about this, do you live this way to let your child expereince this wonderful relatinoship with their Savior too?
Read the following lyrics of this song and let them guide how you perceive and raise your children for His glory. After all, they don’t belong to you- they were God’s creation and part of His purpose the whole time.
Mary, did you know
That your baby boy will one day walk on water?
Mary, did you know
That your baby boy will save our sons and daughters?
Did you know
That your baby boy has come to make you new?
This child that you’ve delivered
Will soon deliver you
Mary, did you know
That your baby boy will give sight to a blind man?
Mary, did you know
That your baby boy will calm a storm with His hand?
Did you know
That your baby boy has walked where angels trod?
And when you kiss your little baby
You’ve kissed the face of God
Mary, did you know?
The blind will see
The deaf will hear
And the dead will live again
The lame will leap
The dumb will speak
The Praises of the Lamb
Mary, did you know
That your baby boy Is the Lord of all creation?
Mary, did you know
That your baby boy
Will one day rule the nations?
Did you know
That your baby boy
Was heaven's perfect Lamb?
And the sleeping
Child you're holdin'
Is the Great I Am!