Trust In God.

Matthew 6:25-34, and Luke 12-22-34, both talk about not worrying about your life, what we will eat, or what we will drink, wear, and not worry about tomorrow because tomorrow has enough worries of its own. Philippians 4:6-7 says do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and petition present your requests to God and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus. Provers 3:5-6 says trust in the Lord, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight. Their are more that tell us, to trust in God, not to worry, not to be anxious but do we not worry, do we not be anxious, do we trust God? Not always, we have the school bills, that we just finished up from school, and we wonder and worry about how we are to pay back those bills. We faith health issues, and people tell us oh that isn't good to have, and we read things on the internet, that till us things about it. Instead of giving it to God, and trusting in him, that He will helps us through the trials and difficulties that we face. We lose our job, and we send out resumes. We pray and we ask God to help us try to find that job, but we don't because the unemployment rate is at 10%. So we start to panic, instead of trusting in God and not worrying. So whatever you are dealing with today, do not be anxious, do not worry, do not fear, but Trust in God, pray and ask God to take care of the situations that you are dealing with in your life, and know that God will lead you through it. Because He has the plans and purposes for your life. Jeremiah 29:11

Jesus is Born

A Virgin Conceives

Luke 2:26-38

26–28 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to the Galilean

village of Nazareth to a virgin engaged to be married to a man descended from David. His name

was Joseph, and the virgin’s name, Mary. Upon entering, Gabriel greeted her:

Good morning!

You’re beautiful with God’s beauty,

Beautiful inside and out!

God be with you.

29–33 She was thoroughly shaken, wondering what was behind a greeting like that. But the

angel assured her, “Mary, you have nothing to fear. God has a surprise for you: You will become

pregnant and give birth to a son and call his name Jesus.

He will be great,

be called ‘Son of the Highest.’

The Lord God will give him

the throne of his father David;

He will rule Jacob’s house forever—

no end, ever, to his kingdom.”

34 Mary said to the angel, “But how? I’ve never slept with a man.”

35 The angel answered,

The Holy Spirit will come upon you,

the power of the Highest hover over you;

Therefore, the child you bring to birth

will be called Holy, Son of God.

36–38 “And did you know that your cousin Elizabeth conceived a son, old as she is? Everyone

called her barren, and here she is six months pregnant! Nothing, you see, is impossible with

God.”

Luke 2:1-20

The Birth of Jesus

1–5 2 About that time Caesar Augustus ordered a census to be taken throughout the Empire.

This was the first census when Quirinius was governor of Syria. Everyone had to travel to his

own ancestral hometown to be accounted for. So Joseph went from the Galilean town of

Nazareth up to Bethlehem in Judah, David’s town, for the census. As a descendant of David, he

had to go there. He went with Mary, his fiancée, who was pregnant.

6–7 While they were there, the time came for her to give birth. She gave birth to a son, her

firstborn. She wrapped him in a blanket and laid him in a manger, because there was no room in

the hostel.

An Event for Everyone

8–12 There were sheepherders camping in the neighborhood. They had set night watches over

their sheep. Suddenly, God’s angel stood among them and God’s glory blazed around them. They

were terrified. The angel said, “Don’t be afraid. I’m here to announce a great and joyful event

that is meant for everybody, worldwide: A Savior has just been born in David’s town, a Savior

who is Messiah and Master. This is what you’re to look for: a baby wrapped in a blanket and

lying in a manger.”

13–14 At once the angel was joined by a huge angelic choir singing God’s praises:

Glory to God in the heavenly heights,

Peace to all men and women on earth who please him.

15–18 As the angel choir withdrew into heaven, the sheepherders talked it over. “Let’s get over to

Bethlehem as fast as we can and see for ourselves what God has revealed to us.” They left,

running, and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger. Seeing was believing.

They told everyone they met what the angels had said about this child. All who heard the

sheepherders were impressed.

19–20 Mary kept all these things to herself, holding them dear, deep within herself. The

sheepherders returned and let loose, glorifying and praising God for everything they had heard

and seen. It turned out exactly the way they’d been told!

Whatever reason you celebrate Christmas, whatever your intentions for getting the Presents, whatever you believe or don't believe about religion. We must remember that Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem over 2,000 years ago, and to remember Him today, and to Thank God for giving us his son, and allowing his son to come to earth, and be born. Thank you God, thank you Jesus.

With God's strength you can do Anything.

Growing up as someone with a disability, we are sometimes limited in what we can do, and in our abilities. Though growing up we are told that no matter what we put our minds to, we can do whatever it is that we want. That is sometimes difficult, because when we are looking for what we want to do, with that desire and job. Or that plan or purpose for our lives, we are turned down because people who don't have disabilities are limited to what they see, and what they think we can do. We are sometimes told that we are not smart enough, we can't do this or that because of our limitations, so how are we supposed to do what we want to do when being told by others that we can't. Some of you that read this may not believe in God, may not believe in him because of what you have gone through, and because of what you have had to deal with in your life. Regardless of believing in God, or not, we will always have limitations, and we will always have difficulties that we will face. In Philippians 4:13 Paul writes I can do all things through Him who ​​strengthens me. Another words regardless of the limitations that we have, the difficulties that we face in this life, when we have that faith in God, He will give us the strength to do what it is that we want to do, and that He has for us. Because God has a plan and a purpose for us, and He loves us. Life in general is not always easy, that's why we must keep our focus on God, and not take it off of what it is that He has for us. If we do we will get distracted, we will get those people that till us we are useless and worthless, and will not fulfill the plans that we have set up for our own lives. We will take our eyes off of what it is that God has for us. Know this that whatever you feel or believe or don't believe about God, He loves you, and He has made you however you are for a plan and a purpose in your life, and with mustard seed faith, when you believe in Him, He will show you what He has for you in your life, as He has in mine.

God's plan for you.

Their are times in our lives, when we are born differently or born with a birth defect, that we ask why. Why would we be born with a birth defect. We don't always know or understand why we are born with a birth defect. Though God says that the thing being molded will not say to the molder, who is God why did you make me like this. Romans 9:20 20 On the contrary, who are you, ​a​O man, who ​b​answers back to God? ​​The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? Psalms 139:13-17 says 13 For You ​a​formed my ​1​inward parts; You ​​wove me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will give thanks to You, for ​I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.15 My ​​frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the ​depths of the earth; 16 Your ​a​eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in ​​Your book were all written The ​days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them. We as people with disabilities, may not be able to fully understand or comprehend how a loving and caring God, who loves us would create us the way that He did. Because of the disability, we may not even believe that their is a God, or maybe we do but we are so angry with him, because of what we have gone through, that we can't fully understand who God is. Here is an illustration that talks about some great men and women that have had to deal with disability, but still where able to do great things in their life. Overcoming and Achieving

Some of the world’s greatest men and women have been saddled with disabilities and adversities but have managed to overcome them. Cripple him, and you have a Sir Walter Scott. Lock him in a prison cell, and you have a John Bunyan. Bury him in the snows of Valley Forge, and you have a George Washington. Raise him in abject poverty, and you have an Abraham Lincoln. Subject him to bitter religious prejudice, and you have a Benjamin Disraeli. Strike him down with infantile paralysis, and he becomes a Franklin D. Roosevelt. Burn him So severely in a schoolhouse fire that the doctors say he will never walk again, and you have a Glenn Cunningham, who set a world’s record in 1934 for running a mile in 4 minutes, 6.7 seconds. Deafen a genius composer, and you have a Ludwig van Beethoven. Have him or her born black in a society filled with racial discrimination, and you have a Booker T. Washington, a Harriet Tubman, a Marian Anderson, or a George Washington Carver. Make him the first child to survive in a poor Italian family of eighteen children, and you have an Enrico Caruso. Have him born of parents who survived a Nazi concentration camp, paralyze him from the waist down when he is four, and you have an incomparable concert violinist, Itzhak Perlman. Call him a slow learner, “retarded,” and write him off as ineducable, and you have an Albert Einstein.

In Jeremiah 29:11 it says for I know the Plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to Harm you to give you a hope and a future. No matter what your thoughts, feelings, or beliefs about God, He loves you, He died on the cross for your sins, and regardless of the disability, He has a plan and a purpose for your life.