A Prayer for God to Be with Us
By Tiffany Thibault

“Behold, the virgin shall be with baby, and bear a Son, they usually shall name His identify Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.” Matthew 1:23 NKJV

I like to learn the scriptures and listen to them learn by others aloud. The valuable phrases carry peace to my coronary heart and encourage my religion with its reality. Within the midst of all of the sights and sounds of this Christmas season and the additional busyness that this time of 12 months brings into our already full lives, it’s so simple to gloss over the highly effective phrases discovered on this Bible verse. There are two important issues that we see on this verse.

First, we see a miracle. “A virgin will bear a toddler.” This unbelievable sentence reveals simply how a lot God actually loves us. He may have simply despatched Jesus into this world as a warrior preventing for injustice, or as a robust chief who would change the world with His authorities. As a substitute, He despatched a valuable little baby to an unwed younger mom, right into a poor group that was oppressed by the Roman authorities. None of that is in any respect the way you and I could have deliberate for the Savior of the world to make His grand entrance. But God, in all His energy, selected to ship just a little child, why? As a result of His plans are all the time higher than ours. 

The second unbelievable factor that we see on this verse is these phrases: “they shall name His identify Immanuel, which is translated, “God with us.”

His very identify, Immanuel, has a promise for us. The that means of His identify is highly effective in simply these three phrases: “God with us.”  These phrases ought to carry consolation to us via their unbelievable readability. God is with us. God is with you. God is with you always, in all circumstances, in all of your excessive and low moments. God is with you in all of your tears and in all of your joys. 

Jesus, the Savior of the world, got here as an toddler, grew to be a person, died on the cross for our sins, conquered demise via His resurrection, and can someday return. So, this promise God is with you covers each element and each little nuance of your life. You may go into this Christmas season comforted with these phrases. You may start a recent new 12 months clinging to this promise. God is with you thru your todays, and He will probably be with you as you go into all your tomorrows. God is with us. That is the rationale we are able to joyfully have a good time that child born so way back who got here to vary the world in His good manner. 

Let’s pray:

Pricey Lord, 
Thanks for being with me in each second of my life. Thanks that I by no means must be alone as a result of You, God love me a lot that you’re right here with me all the time. Could every second of my day be crammed with that life-strengthening reality. I really like you, Lord. 
In your identify, I pray, Amen

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Tiffany Thibault is the writer of the Bible research “Being Fruitful;” she loves main Bible Examine and chatting with girls, encouraging them via truths from the Bible. She lives within the Mojave desert together with her household and likes to discover the wilderness areas round her metropolis.

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