Christmas is not just a feel good experience. It is celebrating with the Living Christ!
We are just three days away from Christmas.
Christmas is here today and gone tomorrow!
Jesus is everlasting. The gifts from Christ endure forever.
You can celebrate Christmas every day of your life.
Christmas is much more than just a memory. It is the life of Christ in a believer and has no ending.
Jesus is a Living God. He is a God of relationship. You can hear His voice and be filled with His supernatural attributes of love, joy, peace, wisdom and protection.
Jesus offers a beauty greater than a Christmas card. He is the Creator of the glorious sunrise that greets you each day.
Celebrate Christmas with Jesus by believing in His promises.
Jesus is a healing God. At this very moment, He is healing a man living in Texas with kidney failure.
Jesus wants to give you a life you can never achieve on your own.
Experience the joy of Jesus in all the moments of Christmas.
Jesus creates new life in a believer. He transforms you into His character.
Make a commitment this Christmas to walk in oneness with Jesus each day of your life.
Give Jesus the baggage from your past and He will give you a new beginning.
Ask Jesus to cover you with His blood and you will be able to stand blameless before Him.
Jesus is not the baby in the manger. He is the Living Christ and desires to live in you and through you.
The miracle of Christmas is the ability to have a personal and embracing relationship with Jesus, the Son of God.
“For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 3:11
The Body of Christ is fractured and in a state of disarray.
This has been caused by leaders who have failed to build doctrine on the foundation of Christ.
Why the Body of Christ is broken?
There are many reasons but the root cause is over disputing the words of Jesus.
Satan has infiltrated Christianity and worked through the leadership to create false or very liberal interpretations of scripture. The goal of Satan is to fracture the Body of Christ and weaken the teachings of Jesus. And, he has been very successful.
The leaders in the Body of Christ whitewash the truths of God to justify their own motives. They manipulate scripture to support the purposes of religion.
In the mind of God, there are no denominations, divisions or different interpretations of scripture.
This sectarianism has been created by human divisiveness and manipulation to support a specific point of view.
There should be no conjecture or deviations of doctrine in the Body of Christ. We all build on the bedrock of Jesus united in the values and teaching of Christ.
The divisiveness in the Body of Christ will probably never end until Jesus comes back to unite His church. In the meantime, the people of Christ should respect the views of others whether they agree or disagree with doctrine. You can avoid conflict by finding a church aligned with the teachings of Jesus.
Jesus is based on relationship!
Christianity has established preset rules and boundaries for a relationship with God. The leaders mostly reject the importance of a personal relationship built on hearing the voice of God. It is impossible to have an authentic relationship with Jesus if you are not in contact with the voice of God.
The purpose of a New Testament church.
The New Testament Church is a filling station for believers. You assemble to praise God, sing hymns and spiritual songs, pray, and to be filled with the truths of Christ. The church should have an open door policy and never attempt to control or confine believers. The purpose is to equip and send believers out into the world to proclaim the gospel.
There is a strong movement to dispel the importance of the Holy Spirit. This is because the Holy Spirit exposes corruption and false teaching. The reality of God comes to those who live under the authority and teaching of the Holy Spirit.
God never changes. He is the same yesterday, today and forever.
God is the Creator of the heavens and earth. Jesus, the Son of God, has power and dominion over all things, and the Holy Spirit speaks for God and is our connection to the Living Christ. There are no other gods.
Salvation is an everlasting gift from God for all those who elect to live by faith in Christ.
Jesus is the only way a human being can be redeemed by God. You must confess your sins, seek repentance and ask Jesus to cover you with His blood.
You must be born again to enter the kingdom of God. The miracle of salvation is to be baptized with Water and Spirit and become transformed into a new creature in Christ Jesus.
The Christ follower is sealed with the Holy Spirit. He is the life of Christ and teaches you the reality of salvation.
We are designed by God to walk in oneness with Jesus under the authority of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus has one voice. He speaks through the Holy Spirit to bring glory to God and unify the Body of Christ.
I cherish the lives of all believers who walk with Me by faith and have an utmost desire to do My will.
This is a compilation of the thoughts of Jesus over the last couple of weeks.
Christmas is My sacrificial gift to a believer. I died so you can live with Me forever here on earth and in heaven.
My blood offers forgiveness for all your sins and gives you the privilege to stand blameless before Me.
Christmas is about celebrating the birth of a baby boy sent from God.
My birthday provides the gift of salvation to all those who elect to live for Me.
Christmas gives you the ability to have an embracing and personal relationship with the Living Christ.
My presents endure forever.
The world presents an artificial picture of Christmas and is not reflective of who I am.
You rejoice at Christmas but I weep for My people.
The deceit of Christmas is the commercial exploitation of My name. Christmas gives people a reason to satisfy their own desires while I get lost in all the commotion.
Don’t pretend to be like Me. Be yourself and walk by faith with Me.
Christmas is a training ground to become more like Me.
Christmas comes once a year. I come every day in the life of a believer.
I deserve your praise every day not just during the Christmas season.
Christmas is a light that shines in the darkness.
Most believers get caught up in the fanfare of Christmas. This creates anxiety and exhaustion. Submit your Christmas holiday to Me and I will give you joy, peace and rest.
The word from God today is love begets love. Reach out to Jesus and He will respond with unconditional and sacrificial love for you. The love of God is unlike anything in the world.
The relationship with God starts with a voluntary decision to reach out to God. You have to ask to receive. The initiative is on you.
The gift of salvation creates a conscious need for the life of God. There is an awakening in your soul.
The gift of salvation creates the life of Jesus within you through the work of the Holy Spirit. You develop a need to be in relationship with God.
The salvation of God reorders you life and takes away old things and adds new things.
The gift of salvation create a new way of living and obtaining things. God calls things that don’t exist as if they did. He does this by your faith in His promises.
The salvation of God in a human being is the transformation into a new creature in Christ Jesus with a moral compass built on the values of Jesus.
The gift of salvation is a calling from God to live with Him in prayer, praise, and to listen for His voice. Read the Bible under the auspices of the Holy Spirit. Jesus will no longer live on the pages of a Bible. He will be a Living Reality in your life.
God desires to give you a new beginning but you must ask and then Jesus will do awesome things.
Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for this people, for their good. When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.” Jeremiah 14:11-12
The word from God today is “The end justifies the means.”
This statement explains a desired result is so good or important that any method may be used to achieve it.
The desired result (or end) with God is at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth. And, God will make this become a reality by executing His judgments over the world.
Christianity paints a false picture of God. The leaders cover up the means of retribution used by God to get your attention. This sounds radical but God never changes.
The dialogue between Jeremiah and God demonstrates the mind of God about sin. God doesn’t just dismiss sin; He executes judgment and no one can change His mind.
God decided the Israelites would pay dearly for their sins. They turned away from God and pursued other idols.
They did not listen to the voice of God or attempt to obey His instructions.
They did not take God seriously.
Today the judgment of God is over our country and many other nations for the same reasons.
We do not fear or respect God.
We make reckless decisions that defy the ways of God.
We have besmirched the heart of God and He is at work to make us pay for our grievous sins.
God is coming with terrifying power and the fires of judgment to declare to the world I am the Living Christ.
I am the eternal living God. There is no one like Me!
“And to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ” Ephesians 3:9
In the middle of last night God spoke this Bible verse and asked me to teach about fellowship with Jesus without the shackles of religion.
The concept of fellowship with God was a mystery for many ages until God revealed His plan of redemption.
God did His work of creation through Jesus, the Son of God. They are one from the beginning of time. If you want God you have to come through Jesus.
Fellowship with Jesus begins with making a decision from the heart to live for Him above else.
Jesus reveals His unsearchable riches to believers who live in oneness with Him. The riches cannot be found through your human intellect. They come from heaven to those who worship Jesus in Spirit and Truth.
Jesus does not hide from a believer who enters into fellowship with Him. He becomes alive and upfront in your life.
Jesus is mysterious because He does not think or act like you.
Fellowship with Jesus is about prayer seeking His will, praising Jesus for who He is and learning to be still and listen for His voice.
Jesus operates through His words which never change so you must read the Bible under the auspices of the Holy Spirit to understand and live by His values.
Fellowship is entering into the suffering of Christ. You will die to self and lose the rights to yourself.
The reality of Jesus will come to those who live under the authority of the Holy Spirit. Jesus reveals His unsearchable riches through the Holy Spirit who is the life of Christ and dwells in all believers.
Jesus is a holy and will not become contaminated by your sin.
Your sin is a barrier to fellowship with Jesus. You must come before Jesus confessing your sin and asking Him to cover you with His blood. This is a lifelong responsibility and requires an open heart to conviction and correction.
We all compromise the scruples of Christ. It is very difficult to be a doer of the Word because Jesus is the antithesis of the human spirit.
Jesus desires for you to walk with Him by faith believing in His promises and not by what you see with your eyes. Without faith you cannot please God. Faith is a lifestyle of trusting God for your every need. Faith has to be lived out in both the ups and downs of life.
Fellowship begins with learning who Jesus is and living with Him by faith. The works of Jesus will come out of your obedience to His voice.
We are imperfect people living in an imperfect world. Who gives you the right to judge!
“Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one’s praise will come from God.” 1 Corinthians 4:5
God judges all things according to His standards of truth and justice.
He has the ability to see into the heart of a human being. He looks at your upbringing, motives influencing your decision making, wreckage from the past and emotional scars in your inner being. He also looks at your hidden sins and the source of all your thoughts.
You and I lack the ability to judge another person. We see the surface; God sees the depth. As believers, we can only confront darkness, offer the counsel of God and pray vigilantly.
When a Christ follower gets in touch with his tainted inner nature he will never boast about himself. He sees a glimpse of what God sees and the picture is pretty ugly.
The Christ follower praises God for all the successes in his life and gives all the glory to God never to himself.
The longer you walk with God the deeper the revelation you can never come close to the purity of God. You are a lost soul except for the love and redemption of God.
This epiphany creates love, respect, humility and praise to Jesus, the King of Kings.
The world is full of evil. Satan is at work to remove the influence of Christ and to steal, kill, and destroy the people of God.
We can act with the weapons provided by God to bring down strongholds and defeat the tactics of Satan.
We execute judgement through prayer and intercession. We speak the powerful words of Jesus in disarming Satan.
Take advantage of the precious gift God has given you. He who is in me is greater than he who is in the world.
Draw upon the power of the Holy Spirit to change lives and leave the judging up to God.
“As the deer pants (or longs for) the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.” Psalm 42:1-2
You may not be aware of this but God is calling you at this very moment. God created you and He wants to live with you forever.
The calling from God is a deep yearning to come into fellowship with Jesus, the son of God. Your soul is actually thirsting for God.
This calling is never ending whether you are a believer or a nonbeliever.
The calling of God has nothing to do with religion, abiding in laws or performing works for God.
The calling is to come into a personal and embracing relationship with Jesus. He wants you to know Him and become close friends.
The calling is to walk by faith believing in the promises of God.
The calling is to live with God under the authority of the Holy Spirit.
The calling is to come into intimate fellowship with God. The Christ follower dwells with God in prayer, praises God for who He is and listens for His voice. He meditates on the Word of God and lives by the values of Jesus.
The calling is to live in obedience to God regardless of His instructions which may not make any sense to you.
The calling is to accept Jesus for who He is and give Him permission to do with you as He pleases. Your priority is to seek the will of God above all else.
The calling is to become a powerful vessel of God filled with the Holy Spirit touching those around you with the Living Water.
Draw near to Me and I will draw near to you. I know you better than you know yourself and desire to give you an abundant life that you can never achieve on your own. I am a Living God and there is no one like Me!
Jesus wants to enter into your life today. He wants to be a powerful influence in every situation you are facing today.
This is about the actuality of God in the life of a believer. Jesus wants to give you strength, wisdom, joy and supernatural protection. He wants to be your best friend. Nothing is impossible for Jesus.
The goal is to understand the reality of God and be willing to participate in the death and resurrection of Christ.
The journey with God is a living experience walking in the footsteps of Jesus.
The priority is to know God and walk in oneness with Him.
You have to personally interact with the Living Christ.
Most believers develop a relationship with God built on knowledge. They focus on the subject not the person.
They are taught to be religiously motivated rather than to seek a personal and intimate relationship with God.
The only way you can understand the deep revelations of Christ Jesus is through personal experience.
If you attempt to pursue Jesus through an intellectual approach you will never know Him. Jesus will only live on the pages of a Bible.
The truths of God are not legal statements and they will never make sense to you until you encounter the Living Christ.
The Christ follower wakes up each day to have a face to face meeting with God. He comes to hear the voice of God and seek the will of Jesus for his life.
He encounters Jesus with a passion to learn His value system and is open to the conviction and correction of the Holy Spirit.
Invite Jesus to be a living reality in your life and come live under the authority of the Holy Spirit.
Hal Hollister Ministry 