25th December 2024 - Christmas Day Service - He was born for you and me

Before I shed the word for today, I'm just going

to say a word of prayer. Lord Jesus, we thank

you for this day, Holy Spirit. Father, thank you for

you our present here in our midst today. Because your

word says we're two or three gather in my name,

I am there in their midst. So we thank you

for being here today. We honor you, we glorify you.

We'll lift you up, for you are worthy. You alone

are worthy of our praise. Holy Spirit. I surrender myself

into your hands. Every word that I speak may be

the words that you want to say today. I pray

Lord that there will be healing today. I pray Lord

that there will be healing of the heart, mind, body, spirit.

I pray Lord that deaf years will open in Jesus' name,

spiritual years, physical years, and deafness in every possible in

Jesus Mighty name. Amen. Okay, I'm just going to hold

this because I'm scared it's going to not hold the

weight of this, but I think it should be fine.

The title of the word for today is Jesus was

born for you and me. I just want you to

think about that He was born for you and me.

It is very personal charge. I know it's a national,

no internet holiday. I know that countries around the world

are celebrating Christmas. Everyone is in their Christmas best clothes,

sharing cake and wine and good food. And that's great.

It's it's wonderful to celebrate a good thing, because we

do celebrate good events occasions. But this is not Christmas

is not just an international holiday. Christmas was an event

that was personal. It's about you. Jesus was born for you.

Make it personal because it was very personal. Hmm okay,

what makes it to the headlines today? What do we

see on the news today? Do we see politics, Yes,

I think there's a lot of that in the news.

Do we see sports, Yeah, we know who wins the

World Cups? Fashion trends. How many of us follow the

news to see the fashion trends? Yeah? Now, celebrity gossip

very important, isn't it? Who got divorced? And you know, well,

not the best thing to say on Christmas, But anyways,

on the occasion, we do see in the news an

event that may change your life, that impacts your life directly.

Many years ago, there was one such event that changed

the life of humanity civilization. The invention of the telephone. Okay,

so this was a Scottish man, Alexander Graham Bell. He

worked as a speech and hearing expert. His mother and

wife both were deaf, and seeking to improve the telegraph,

he researched voice transmission and in eighteen seventy six he

patented the telephone. Now we all know that this device

revolutionized communication. Until then it was just letters. You had

to post handwritten letters or telegraphs that were typed out,

and that was how you could communicate to your loved ones.

It was one of the most significant advances of the

Second Industrial Revolution, to the extent that it marks the

beginning of modern society. Without it, the world would not

be as we know it today. How many of us

have a phone a mobile phone? Yeah, everyone has a

mobile phone these days. You can't in India, where there

are different classes. Across the world, there are different classes,

the middle class, the upper middle class, you know, the elite,

the high and mighty, the wealthy. But in India even now,

if you go to India, you would find in the

most remote villages you'd find you know, fruit sellers or

vegetable sellers on carts with mobile phones in their hands,

and you don't even have to pay them in cash.

They'll say, you can, you know, g pay them Google pay.

Telephones are everywhere and we wouldn't have it without the

Scottish man Alexander Graham Bell. Why is she talking about

telephones on Christmas? Like? What's wrong with this, lady, Deborah?

I mean you seriously got all your lions crossed. No,

despite the advancement of technology, the rates of loneliness and

depression of skyrocketing. We are so technologically advanced. We have Facebook,

we have WhatsApp, we have Twitter, we have Instagram, all

means of communication to keep in touch with each other. Right,

we had to write handwritten letters back in the day.

Now you can send a message to a friend with

the click of a button. You can How many have

you sent letters? No? How many of you send a

text message on What'sapp saying Merry Christmas to my family.

See that's how easy it was. But sadly, despite despite

the technological advancement, loneliness depression is skyrocketing today. And do

you know why? It's because God the Father has been

reaching out to us. You are not alone. God the

Father has been reaching out to us through the lips

of his prophets. There are over hundreds of prophets in

the Old Testament who have prophesied about the birth of Jesus.

Why because God, the Father's heart is filled with love

and longing. He wants to commune with you, connect with you,

bond with you like He did with Adam and Eve

in the cool of the day. God was not far

away from us. God created us, and he met Adam

and Eve every evening in the cool of the garden.

He did that. Why did God do that? Was God lonely?

I don't think God was ever lonely. He is triune.

But God knew that the human heart can be lonely

without him, and you will be lonely without him. But

you don't have to be God the Father made a

way for the human heart to never be lonely. Again,

we have the prophets in the Old Testament, Isaiah, Micah, Samuel.

All of these prophets prophesied the Lord's coming. I'm going

to read Isaiah seven fourteen and says, therefore, the Lord

will give you a sign. The Virgin will conceive and

give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

The Angel answered in Luke one pint thirty five to Mary,

the Holy Spirit will come on you. The power of

the most tie will overshadow you. So the holy one

to be born will called, will be called the Son

of God. This was prophesied many hundreds of years before

Jesus was born, and it was fulfilled in Luke, chapter one,

verse thirty five. I wish I could go through all

the prophecies. What are these prophecies? These are God's love letters.

These are God's telephone calls. These are God's messages to humanity,

saying that I love you. You are alone without me, you

are not complete, You are incomplete without me. I love

you so much. I am sending you messages throughout the

whole expanse of time. And I'm telling you I'm sending

my son. I am sending Jesus. And why am I

sending my son Jesus. It is the passionate, loving heart

of the Father saying I'm sending you Jesus because I

want to be close to you again. I want to

commune with you, connect with you, just like I did

with Adam and Eve. Jesus was born two thousand years

ago in Bethleh for you, for me. He took the

form of man. But his birth had a purpose. It

was you because he loves you. He was born a human,

went through the human experience for you, for you, he

wants to know, He wanted to know how it was

to feel like a human because he was God right.

Imagine royalty leaving his all of his royal you know, treatments, luxuries,

whatever that you know, royal people are used to royalties,

used to having and he came down in a human

experience because he loved you and he wanted you. He

wanted to know you and understand you in every way.

Do you know that? Sometimes we don't understand ourselves. Sometimes

we do things and we go we wonder like, why

did I do that? Why did I say that? Why

did I make that decision? What's wrong with me? Jesus

understands you. He understands everything about you. And he came

two thousand years ago as a baby. But do you

know what, Jesus is coming back again, and this time

he's not going to be a baby. He's not a baby.

He's going to be the king of kings, and every

king and every knee will bow before Jesus. He's coming

for his bride. Now for those who are you know

on their journey with the Bible. We the Church are

the bride of Christ. Jesus came two thousand years ago.

I'm going to repeat that, but he's coming back for

his bride. He wants a bride who's preparing for him?

How can you prepare for Jesus? How can you do that?

Two ways? No, Actually, I'm going to give you one

hundred steps on how you can prepare for Jesus. Everyone excited.

We're going to get one hundred steps. We're going to

go through each and every step in detail. I'm just

finding you all up. Two ways, guys, there were two

ways that you can prepare for Jesus. How can you

prepare for Jesus? Worship and pray? I know that sounds

really simple, right, We're in charge worship and pray. That's

the most simple thing to do. Do we give God

his due worth? How do you behave? How would you behave?

If just right now, Prince King Charles walk through the door,

would everyone just sit there now? If Prime Minister Narramodi

walk through the door, everyone would stand in respect and

in honor. Do we give Jesus his due worth? He

is worthy of all your worship. Worship is also worthship.

That's something that we learned worthship. How many times do

you look at this guy and you see this beautiful

sunset and you go, like, God, that's you. You're amazing.

How many times do you look at I don't know

a rose that blooms and you say, God, that's you.

Do you really take time throughout your day to look

at things and go, I worship you God, because that

is only you, and only you can do that. How

many of you have tried in like, you know, growing

a plant. Yes, a lot of gardeners in the house tried, yes,

that being the keyword. But you know you cannot create

a rose. God created the rose. And yet we walk

through gardens and we just don't even take a second

to worship God. Worship is not coming on a Sunday

and singing a song. Worship is every single second of

your life. You look at the sky, you say, God,

you're amazing, worship you. You look at the rose, you say, God,

you're amazing. I worship you. You look at a newborn baby,

you say, God, you're amazing. I worship you. You look

at the food on your table, you say, God, you

are my provider, I worship you. You look at your

children and say, God, you have blessed me with this offspring.

I worship you. You look at everything around you and

you say, God, I worship you. Because worship is not

a song. Worship is every breath that you breathe, and

God deserves your worship. Pray the second point. Pray talk

to God, hear his heart for your future, and see

your role in his plan. You have the privilege of

being a part of God's plan. I'm going to repeat that,

you have the privilege of being a part of God's plan.

Can you Can you fathom that? It's like mel Gibson

rings you and says, hey, Selma, I would like you

to play the lead in my next movie doing Passion

of the Christ three and I would like you to

play the role of dorcas one of the wealthy women

who ran business. She ran her own business and she

supported the ministry of Jesus. I would like you to

play that role. Sama's going to be like you know,

she's going to be over the moon. She's going to

be so happy. That's to play the part in a

human production movie. You have the privilege of playing a

part in God's plan that is amazing, that is massive.

Do not discredit that. Do you know how you can

discredit that by not being a part of it. Do

you know how you cannot be a part of God's plan.

Don't pray, don't ask God, make your own decisions in life.

Just go through life and say, oh, you know what,

I think this is the best thing that I can

do for my life, So I'm going to do it now.

I am not saying don't use common sense. Don't stand

in the middle of the road and say, God, unless

you tell me to cross the road, I'm not going

to cross this road. There's a place for common sense.

You do have to get up and cross the road.

You have to buy your groceries. But you have a

plan in God's life. There might be a person at

the supermarket and God wants you to go up to

that person and say, Jesus loves you. That is your

part in God's plan. There might be a person and

your place of work. You might be working, and there

might be a person that looks sad or distressed, and

it's in God's plan for you to go up to

that person and say, hey, you look sad today. I

just want you to know that God loves you. You

have the privilege of being a part of God's plan,

but you need to pray if you want to be

a part of God's plan. I think there are many

Christians who are going to miss out on so many

things that God has intended for you to do because

you didn't ask him. If you asked him, he would

have told you. How does God talk to you? God

talks to you through his word. I've heard so many people,

students come up to me and say, I want to

know how to hear God. How do I hear God?

How do I hear him? Does God even talk? Is

it just my imagination? I don't know if God really talks. No, Church,

God talks, Okay, he really does. Sometimes he even says

things that you may find difficult to follow through, but

He will give you grace and strength. But God talks?

How does he talk? He talks through his word. Prayer

is a mixture or a combination of you talking and

reading the Word the Bible. God talks through his word.

And so many times people go through life thinking, Oh

my God, God is not talking to me. I can't

hear him. Does he even talk? No? The Bible says,

God is not deaf or mute like the idols. God

can hear you when you ask a question. And God

does talk to you, and he will answer you, and

he talks through his word. So I'm going to encourage

all of you this Christmas to take Christmas very personally.

Jesus came for you, and it is not just an

national holiday. His purpose was you. He was born for

you and me, and in his birth the plan of

his redemption to save you, to save me. But we

need to be a bride that is preparing for Jesus.

How can you prepare without prayer, without worship. I want

us to go back home and actually reflect for some

time and think about do we live a lifestyle of

adoring and worshiping God? Do we ask God before we

make decisions? Do we ask Him what his plan for

us is? There is a prophecy that in Isaiah chapter

thirty five, verses five and six, And today I'm going

to speak that over us, and it says, then will

the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears

of the death unstopped, Then will the lamb lame leap

like a deer. Sorry, it's all Christmasy, and I'm only

thinking of the lamb, and the mute tongue shout for

joy and streams in the desert. I'm going to repeat

that again. Isaiah chapter thirty five was five to six.

And will the eyes of the blind be opened? And

I pray in Jesus name that every blind eye will

be open today, every spiritual blindness, every physical blindness will

be open in Jesus name, the ears of the deaf unstopped.

I pray that today every deaf year be open in

Jesus' name, every spiritual deafness and every physical deafness. The

mute tongue shout for joy, every tongue that is bad

and not able to worship God. Not just in church,

but when we walk on the road, when we are

at our workplace, when we're at the supermarket, when we

look at the stars in the sky, when we look

at the sunrise, when we look at the flowers, every

mute tongue that is not worshiping God. I declare today

in Jesus' name, that the mute tongue shop for joy

and streams in the desert. I declare this over our church.

I declare this over each and every person standing here today.

I declare this over my family. I declare that every desert,

every barrenness, every fruitlessness in our lives, every area, because

the Bible says that if you do not bear fruit,

the Lord's going to chop it off. The Bible says

that if you do not bear fruit, it's going to

be chopped off. So I pray that every dry, unproductive,

fruitless area in your life you will see streams life

of the Holy Spirit. So I'm going to pray before

I end my message, Father, I pray that every desert

will see streams flowing today and this year onwards. I

pray that you will to dead situations. I pray Father

that there will be big truths, there will be healing.

There will be not just the birth and the celebration

of your birth Jesus, but also there will be your

church and a bride preparing for your coming. I pray

that we will be a church that worships you in

every way. I pray that we will know your heart, Jesus,

that we will know what you want for us. For

each and every day, Thank you for blessing us, Thank

you for being born in Jesus Mighty name. We pray

Amen