Sunday Sermon

“Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise” Galatians 4:28. God gives us the promise and He does this out of love. God is always faithful even when we aren’t.

“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light” (Ephesians 5:8)

There may be joy found in several fields of activity. Some find it in sport, some in music, some in their profession, and some even in Christian work. But the purest joy in the universe is to be found only in fellowship with the Father

Hebrews 11 tells of the prophet Enoch, who so pleased God and walked so intimately with him, he never died. Enoch is an example for us as we learn to walk with God.

We tend to pick and choose when we want our light to shine and when we don’t.

But imagine for a moment, what would happen in other areas of our lives if we decided that sometimes we wanted the light to shine and other times not.

The old wine had to run out, at Cana, before Jesus did His miracle. He is waiting now for our strength to come to an end. All our failures and defeats are meant by God to bring us to the end, for He can manifest His power perfectly only in our weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9).

Jesus was the only person ever born who had the opportunity to choose the family into which he was to be born. None of us had that choice. Which family did Jesus choose?

It can be easy to loose that spirit of Christmas. Stores will not be playing Christmas music anymore, the world around us will have taken down all the decorations that remind of this special holiday, and Hallmark will no longer be showing those somewhat cheesy Christmas movies that pull you in in spite of yourself. But for Catholics, we will just be getting started.

There are times in our life when we go through certain crises'. When we are trying to serve the Lord and we find that although we are doing everything that we know to do, we are spiritually tired, we lack the grace and Holy Ghost power to keep going! We need a renewed awareness of the life that was given to us in the sacraments of baptism and confirmation. We need an intensified awareness of the presence and power of the Holy Ghost. We need to be endued with power from on high again. The "rivers of living water" seems to have dried up in our lives. There seems to be a dam from within that is keeping it flowing out of our lives. Yet Jesus had promised that everyone who believed in Him would have rivers of living water flowing out of their life - they'd never be dry.

You NEVER just “happen” to have something happen in your life. There are no coincidences for Christians. GOD is orchestrating every situation, every circumstance, even (and especially!) the difficult ones, for His purposes, to “clean” you; to “refine” you; and to prepare you for Emanuel's coming.