In Uganda see our recent communications online at: https://missionafricajk.blogspot.ug/.
In other countries also see our communications at: https://www.missionafricajk.net.
Friends: Our Updates are
sent to instruct, encourage, edify and act as a help in prayer. We appreciate
your receiving them, your replies, comments and prayer requests.
Merry
Christmas! Ministry in Children’s Christmas Outreaches and Pastoral Development,
Bible and Literature Distribution continues. We were blessed to serve in Lira,
Soroti and Mbale recently. Pray for conversions of Children and Youth and
truth, help and hope to come to the people through these and on-going ministry
at Christmas in preaching, evangelism and compassionate care. See attached
photos of this work and more photos at: https://missionafricajk.blogspot.ug/
Prayer
Requests and Encouragements:
Please
continue in prayer for God’s healing mercies for our dear brother Willie as he
is in cancer treatment and has suffered complications recently.
Pray for
conversions and good for Pakistanis through the recent work there.
Pray again
that the Ebola Outbreak in neighboring DRC will be contained and stopped soon;
for a lessening in the violence there which prevents this at this time.
Pray that
the Prince of Peace will continue to bring His peace to the needy nations of this
world.
“For unto
us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His
shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and
peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To
order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward,
even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.” Isaiah 9:6, 7
NKJV
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“But now,
this morning, the portion which will engage our attention is this, “Unto us a child
is born, unto us a Son is given.” The sentence is a double one, but it has in
it no repetitiveness. The careful reader will soon discover a distinction. And
it is not a distinction without a difference. “Unto us a child is born, unto us
a Son is given.” As Jesus Christ is a child in His human nature, He is born,
begotten of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary. He is as truly born, as
certainly a child, as any other man that ever lived upon the face of the earth!
He is, thus, in His humanity, a child born. But as Jesus Christ is God’s Son, He
is not born, but given, begotten of His Father from before all worlds,
begotten—not made, being of the same substance with the Father. The doctrine of
the eternal affiliation of Christ is to be received as an undoubted truth of
our holy religion. But, as to any explanation of it, no man should venture
thereon, for it remains among the deep things of God—one of those solemn mysteries,
indeed, into which the angels dare not look, nor do they desire to pry into
it—a mystery which we must not attempt to fathom, for it is utterly beyond the
grasp of any finite being! As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean, as
a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God! A God whom we could understand
would be no God. If we could grasp Him, He could not be infinite; if we could understand
Him, then were He not divine. Jesus Christ, then, I say, as a Son, is not born
to us, but given! He is a blessing bestowed on us, “For God so loved the world,
that He sent His only begotten Son into the world.” He was not born in this
world as God’s Son, but He was sent, or was given, so that you clearly perceive
that the distinction is a suggestive one and conveys much good truth of God to
us. “Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given.”
-C.H. Spurgeon British Preacher
1834-1892
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