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Culled from Holy Bible App.

Matthew 1:1-25

2. Focus on Jesus

Resolve to focus your life on Jesus. The Bible is all about Jesus. The New Testament opens with his family tree.

As we read the list of Jesus’ ancestors it is encouraging to see that they include Tamar (the adulteress), Rahab (the prostitute), Ruth (the non-Jewish Moabite), Solomon (who was conceived after King David’s adulterous affair with Bathsheba), as well as many others. Thankfully, God uses sinful human beings and, therefore, can use us. Whatever your past, however broken your life may seem right now, God can use you to do something great with your life.

The very name ‘Jesus’ means, ‘he will save his people from their sins’ (v.21). Every time we use the name Jesus it reminds us that our greatest need is not for happiness or contentment (although these may both be byproducts). Our greatest need, as with Jesus’ ancestors, is for forgiveness. Therefore, we need a Saviour.

The beginning of Matthew shows us that Jesus is the completion of all that is recorded in the Old Testament:

Jesus is the climax of history
Matthew opens his Gospel by summarising the Old Testament story in terms of Jesus’ ancestry (vv.1–17). The Old Testament tells the story that Jesus completes. Matthew sets out the history of the people of God in terms of three equal periods: fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile and fourteen from the exile to Christ (v.17).

In the genealogy, biological generations are skipped over (as was quite common in Old Testament family trees). Matthew was pointing out that Old Testament history falls into three approximately equal spans of time between crucial events. Jesus is the end of the line as far as the Old Testament story goes – the climax has been reached.
In Jesus, all the promises of God are fulfilled
Jesus is not only the completion of the Old Testament story at a historical level, he is also the fulfilment of the Old Testament prophecies and all of God’s promises.

Matthew concludes each of five scenes from the conception, birth and early childhood of Jesus by quoting the Hebrew Scriptures that have been ‘fulfilled’ by the events described (Matthew 1:22–23; 2:5–6,17,23; 4:14–16).

The first one is the fulfilment in the conception of Jesus: ‘All this took place to fulfil what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”)’ (1:22–23).
All of history, prophesy and promise, is completed in Jesus. Your whole life is completed in Jesus. Every part of your life: your work, family, relationships, friends, memories and dreams are completed in Jesus.

Prayer:

"Lord, thank you for this promise for the new year – that, in Jesus, you are with me. Help me to focus my life on you in the year ahead."

Nathan2016:
You just spoil d whole fun.mtewww

Eyah! Sorry ehn!

Obinoscopy:
Have restored it . Weldone, you were the first.

Thank you!

Culled from Holy Bible App.

I belong to a squash club, which is also a gym. Each year on 1 January they bring in extra gym equipment. The place is packed out. By about 7 January, they move all the extra equipment out again, as most people have given up their New Year’s resolution, and the club returns to normal!

Get fit
Lose weight
Reduce drinking
Stop smoking
Get out of debt
There is nothing wrong with making these common New Year’s resolutions. Of course, all of us make resolutions that we fail to keep.

The good news is that each year is an opportunity for a fresh start. But then so is each week. Every Sunday is the first day of the week – a new beginning. Actually, every day is an opportunity for a new beginning.

The first three words in the Bible are, ‘In the beginning…’ (Genesis 1:1). Each of the passages for today tells us something about new beginnings and new opportunities, and suggests some possible New Year’s resolutions.

Psalm 1:1-6

1. ‘Delight’ in the Bible

If you are beginning the challenge to read the Bible in One Year, this psalm has encouraging words for you.

The promise is that if you ‘delight’ in God’s Word and ‘meditate’ on Scripture ‘day and night’ (v.2, MSG), your life will be blessed. Happiness comes from what happens to you. Blessing is what happens to you through knowing God and meditating on his words.

God promises you fruitfulness (‘which yields its fruit in season’, v.3b), vitality (‘whose leaves do not wither’, v.3c) and prosperity ('whatever they do prospers', v.3d), though not necessarily material prosperity!

This message is backed up by a glance across at the ultimate fate of ‘the wicked’. The psalmist does not try to pretend that the wicked don’t sometimes prosper. He simply reminds us of the transitory nature of that prosperity – ‘they are like chaff that the wind blows away… [they] will perish’ (vv.4,6).

The key to lasting – and ultimately eternal – fruitfulness and vitality lies in your relationship with God. As you seek to follow ‘the way of the righteous’, you are assured that the Lord himself will watch over you (v.6).

Prayer:
"Lord, thank you for your wonderful promises as I resolve to make a regular habit of delighting in your word and meditating on it."

Nice one Op.

Very Nice!

DanPel:
HAPPY NEW YEAR MA.

Thank you Sir.

Happy New Year to you and your Family!

Cute

Explorers, thank you for the mention. I appreciate.

Happy New Year to you and your Family. Wish you and your Family a Prosperous and Blessed Year! Stay Blessed!

vivaciousvivi:
Indeed! I love "love"

lol.

Happy New Year!

40manlappy:
It's almost unbelievable!

See how potential holiday destinations are wasting away.

I'm telling you! Unbelievable!

I'd really love to visit that place this year!

Obinoscopy:
Yea you have! Let's see if others will see theirs too .

lol. Okay.

You deleted it!

OnPointMan:
Haters don't know that hating with passion causes cancer. #CFC for life

lol. Let's forgive them!

Happy New Year to you!

#Chelseaforlife

Happy Birthday and Happy New Year Op! Wish you all the beautiful things of life!

Happy New Year Nairalanders!

Happy New Year Nairalanders!

Thank God for His Mercy and Grace! They've been New Every Morning!

I wish you all a Wonderful 2017!

Hebrews 4 vs 1 to 16. New International Version (NIV)

A Sabbath-Rest for the People of God
1Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.

2 For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed.[a]

3 Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,

“So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’”[b]
And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world.

4 For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.”[c]

5 And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”

6 Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience,

7 God again set a certain day calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.”[d]
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.

9 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;

10 for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works,[e] just as God did from his.

11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.

12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Jesus the Great High Priest

14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven,[f] Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.

15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.

16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

Happy New Year Nigeria!

Wow a place like this in Ondo State?

Nice One!

2017 beginning on a new/beautiful note for them. I wish them well!

allytinted:
Chelsea? Tar, Tufiakwa. I'll Rather Not Support Any Team.

I Hate Chelshit With Passion.

Eyah! We don't care sha!

Keep Hating with Passion!

Awwwwnnnnn.

And it's still the 31st of December 2016 here.

We're getting there by God's Grace!

Op, Congratulations to you and your Wify!

New Year Gift from Chelsea to me!

Chelsea for Life!

allytinted:
You Need Not Tell Me That, If Its Chelsea, I'll Definitely Hate. Mtcheeeeeeeeeeew

#FifaCertifiedChelseaHater.

Eyah don't cry! Someone's club is frustrating Him and he's transferring agression.

Don't worry. Here at Chelsea, we're very nice. We can allow you port to Chelsea without purchasing form.

We're nice like that!

You're welcome in advance!

allytinted:
See Them, Because Una Don Use FLUKE Win 12 Straight Games Now, We No Go Hear Word.
Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeew

Keep hating!

allytinted:
mtcheeeeeeeeew

Haterz gonna Hate!

Osshheyyyyy!!! Chelsea!

Phlippians 4 vs 4-7

"4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."