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Prayer:  God our Father, every year we rejoice as we look forward to this feast of our Salvation.  May we
welcome Christ as our Redeemer,, and meet him with confidence when he comes to be our judge, we,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.




MERRY CHRISTMAS

In our normal state, except with the divine grace of God, we can never understand the weaknesses of others because God’s grace is with us to protect and shield us from temptation (preservation from God). 

This we must not take for granted. We must ask God to protect us from judgemental spirit, spirit of self- righteousness, pride and arrogance.  He alone can protect us from these destructive evils.

We bear consequences of our actions or other people’s action due to their evil tendency which makes us victims and their preys.  In the course of every events of our lives, we need the divine guidance, and protection of God. 

When we focus on God in our challenges and sufferings, we are strengthened.  We gain more wisdom and become better persons.  We are not hardened we are given hearts of flesh so that we can be of help to others who may need our help, our support, our comfort etc.

A Christian should not run away from problems.  What we need to do is to ask God to give us the strength, the wisdom to confront these challenges and come out of them victoriously to the honour and glory of HIS name.

We know we are in spiritual and physical war fare.  This is a fact.  The beauty is that we have Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour our hope and assurance.

 He said ‘Do not Fear’.    HING

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