December 21st 2025
Colossians 1 v 1-14 (4th in our Advent series)
You are God’s Gift to the World. Did you ever realise that you are God’s gift to the world?
He planted you on the earth like a precious flower to share the beautiful scent of Salvation with the people in the parched desert of life around you. He has given you as a gift to the souls in need.
He expects you not only to brighten the world where you are, but to bear the fruit of new souls into His kingdom.
It is not a difficult task to do when you allow the Holy Spirit to work through you.
You cannot do it of yourself, and God doesn’t expect you too. That is why you have the Holy Spirit in you
The people around us need to feel that we can help, to give them hope in a hopeless world.
The daily newspapers and magazines in the shops all look at the despair that people are in.
Newspapers don’t want good news it does not sell their papers.
The black side of things draw us in. …….People are worried about the things they read…..Violent crimes
Unemployment……Poverty …..Suicides a great many of our young people, now children are starting to do it What hope have they got
Alarm bells must start to ring in the Christians ears
People have no hope. They need to find a purpose in life, and this can be found in Jesus and His love for us. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.
Hebrews 6 v 19
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.
God is calling us to share the hope we have with the souls in danger about us
God has chosen you and me, as His gift to the lost world, asking us to share His eternal love with those about us.
I know you have a love for God,…..I know you want to work for Him….I truly believe that God is calling us to go that next step further,…. telling those about us of the hope of Salvation.
It is a precious message that we have been given not just for ourselves but those around us
Keeping this message to ourselves is VERY SELFISH AND RUDE TO OUR NEIGHBOURS
How can we do it?
How can we find the words to say?
God knows you better than you do yourselves…In His intimate knowledge of your special talents and your limitations, …He knows the best way for you to win souls….He does not expect you to be something your not. …
Not everyone is an evangelist, gospel singer or a street corner preacher.
He asks you to be yourself and be a gospel witness
Witnessing in your daily activities , shopping, walking the dog, just going for a stroll.
Wherever you are be ready to give someone HOPE.
LET PEOPLE SEE WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT YOU.
When they sense the interest you have in them, often they tell you all the problems they are having.
You may have gone that way yourself,….and show them a way out.
Your testimony of what God has done for you is the work of the Holy.Spirit. let Him use your words to bring hope to someone.
You are God’s gift to a lost world
After all someone spoke to you about Jesus or else you would not be here
Give back something you were given
Befriending people is a wonderful way to witness
People begin to trust you.
Because of the blunt approach that some give,… it only puts off people.
Often they think you are crazy, there is something wrong with you.
This is how people with religious mania behave.
God wants us to love people, it is the way God works in peoples lives The casual way is always best.
Befriending or giving tracts, or in normal conversations carries more weight
There are times of blunt approach, but this must be guided by the Holy Spirit.
V 9
Praying for people is another approach
Always remembering you in our prayers.
But for the work to be blessed a word of witness must take place at some point
There are many ways of telling others about Jesus, because without Him we are lost.
News from the Church New dates
25th December…. Christmas Day Service 10am (for 45 minutes)
NO SERVICES UNTIL 4TH JANUARY 2026
7th January..…..Friendship Group, (this covers all ages and the lonely people)
21st January…. Knit and natter is a time to finish old projects or learn new skills
if you just want to talk well that’s OK too
ANSWERS TO 14th December QUESTIONS
1) Adam 2) Enoch 3) Ham 4) Abram and Jacob 5) Sarai 6) Lot 7)Hagar 8) Abraham 9) Keturah 10) Isaac 11) Esau 12) Jacob 13) Laban 14) Rachel 15) Joseph 16) Simeon
Bible Quiz this week’s Quiz is Facts in Exodus
1 When Moses first went to Pharaoh how many days did he ask to take the people to worship their God.?
2 Pharaoh said no and made the people work harder and also gather what, to make bricks.?
3 The 2nd time before Paraoh Aaron cast his rod on the floor, what did it become?
4 What happened to the water in the river in the first plague?
5 What came out of the river in the second plague.?
6 What was the 9th plague on Egypt?
7 The 10th plague brough death to who?
8 What did the children of Israel sprinkle on their doorposts in order to be safe?
9 At what hour did the Angel of death pass over.?
10 What did the Children of Israel bake before their departure from Egypt?
11 What happened to Pharaoh and his army as they followed after the Children of Israel?
12 What did Moses cast into the waters of Marah to make them sweet?
13 What did the people call the bread that God gave them each morning?
14 What 2 things led the Children of Israel as they travelled in the desert?
15 How long did they eat the Manna in the wilderness?
16 Which unusual place did water come from?
I hope you have a happy Christmas, celebrating the birth of Jesus over 2000 years ago.
Have a very happy New Year, putting it into the Lords hands and He will guide you through it
God Bless