{"id":190,"date":"2019-12-20T13:01:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T13:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2019-12-20T13:01:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T13:01:52","slug":"christmas-is-around-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Christmas is around the corner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is Friday the 20th of December. Looking out and it is hard to believe that it is winter. It is hardly any snow and the fog is thick. But never the less is Christmas soon here.<\/p>\n<p>God gave us the ultimate gift, His only son, so that we that do believe will have eternal life.<\/p>\n<p>So re joys in the knowledge that our Savior is born!<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"passage-display\"><span class=\"passage-display-bcv\">Matthew 1:18-25<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"passage-display-version\">King James Version (KJV)<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-23163\" class=\"text Matt-1-18\"><sup class=\"versenum\">18\u00a0<\/sup>Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-23164\" class=\"text Matt-1-19\"><sup class=\"versenum\">19\u00a0<\/sup>Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-23165\" class=\"text Matt-1-20\"><sup class=\"versenum\">20\u00a0<\/sup>But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the\u00a0<span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span>\u00a0appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-23166\" class=\"text Matt-1-21\"><sup class=\"versenum\">21\u00a0<\/sup>And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name\u00a0<span class=\"small-caps\">Jesus<\/span>: for he shall save his people from their sins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-23167\" class=\"text Matt-1-22\"><sup class=\"versenum\">22\u00a0<\/sup>Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-23168\" class=\"text Matt-1-23\"><sup class=\"versenum\">23\u00a0<\/sup>Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-23169\" class=\"text Matt-1-24\"><sup class=\"versenum\">24\u00a0<\/sup>Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-23170\" class=\"text Matt-1-25\"><sup class=\"versenum\">25\u00a0<\/sup>And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name\u00a0<span class=\"small-caps\">Jesus<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Take care!<\/p>\n<p>Gods blessings upon all y\u00b4all!<\/p>\n<p>LB<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is Friday the 20th of December. Looking out and it is hard to believe that it is winter. It is hardly any snow and the fog is thick. But never the less is Christmas soon here. God gave us the ultimate gift, His only son, so that we that do believe will have eternal life. So re joys in the knowledge that our Savior is born! Matthew 1:18-25\u00a0King James Version (KJV) 18\u00a0Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. 19\u00a0Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. 20\u00a0But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. 21\u00a0And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name\u00a0Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins. 22\u00a0Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, 23\u00a0Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. 24\u00a0Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lady-shares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}