Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Most people expect a great deal from Christmas Day and are often depressed when it fails to live up to their expectations.
Even some of us get caught up in the image of what humans expect this day to be.
Here are some scriptures which set us free when we choose to live by them.
Romans 12:2 Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Instead follow this:
Colossians 3:1-7 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.
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John 16:33 In the world ye shall have tribulation:
We can step into the tribulation of this world by choosing to go their way and do their activities.
Or we can just abstain from such and choose another way.
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We continually rejoice each day that God made a way of salvation for us... that Jesus came to this earth in fleshly form as a human to suffer all things we suffer, to die for us that we be saved by HIS sacrifice for us.
The greatest thing that can ever happen to us is for God to reveal HIMSELF to us and to give us HIS Spirit to live in us.
If we have that, we have everything.
Rejoice in that ... that your name is written in heaven!
Our hope is in HIM, not in ourselves.
Romans 8:19-23 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
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I Corinthians 15:50-52 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Blink: That is how quickly we will be changed out of these present human bodies. We will be given new, spiritual bodies. There will be no more pain of the flesh for we will not have this flesh. Therefore we will not sorrow for it is the flesh that causes sorrow. We will not have any physical pains for that, too, is our flesh which we will no longer have. But we will be changed into spiritual bodies and will be like the angels, continually focused on God and able to worship HIM.
(For it is our flesh and the desires of the flesh and the thinking of things of this world that interrupt our thoughts of God.)
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I Thessalonians 4:13-18 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (precede) them which are asleep.
For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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Revelation 21:1-5 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.
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