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  A manger is a cattle's feeding box The cliché: Jesus was born in a manger. As a city boy, I find it cruel to know that someone has to give birth or be born in such gruesome conditions. I thought even homeless folks could go to a public hospital for that. But as it was, this happened to Joseph and Mary, and the baby boy Jesus. Background: The first census mandated everyone to go back to their hometowns for registration. Mary was already on her 9th month - on her 40th week, due for labor. And yet, they have got to go and obey the decree. I guess disobedience would be fatal. But don't pregnant women hurt themselves when they travel out for a long time? Either way was fatal. Mary just sat there, on a camel or a donkey, and she would feel those birth pains, and it was aggravated by the bumps on the way. It would have been hot by day, and cold at night. And still they went. How far was it then? How many straight hours or days did it take?   Each bump is a discomfort ...

  I thank the Lord for my salvation. God planned to save me by coming to earth in human form. He knows and understands every iota of my being because He became a man just like me. On this Christmas season, I celebrate Christ-day, the coming of my Savior and King. I remember how He was  birthed in my spirit , and brought about my own rebirth. I am so glad to be born again! In His first coming as a baby, all the heavens and nature sang.  (Luke 2:13-14)  The whole angelic host was one massive choir rejoicing in God’s plan of salvation and peace for all mankind. But the next time He returns, the Second Coming, those same angels will be clad for war.  (Revelations 19:14) That’s why now, in this Period of Grace, we should affirm our allegiance to the King of kings, to Him who was born to save us from our sins and misery, to Him who was born to die on our place for the punishment we so deserve. What a gracious act of redemption! “Yes, it is true I am a king...

I found a KJV update that has red for the words of God in the Old Testament, but didn’t consider Melchizedek's words.   I also found a KJV update with quotation marks, but retained the archaic words.   But I am yet to find a KJV in paragraph form. SO NOW I'M TRYING TO WRITE ONE, with all the other good formats included. *Praying to cross paths with a publisher :) #PursueMinistryTraining #CompleteTheTrainingUnderChrist #InspiredByLightConference2019 image from burblyy

  And the L ORD  appeared to him in the plains of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. 2  And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men stood by him. And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground 3  and said, “My Lord , if now I have found favor in your sight, pass not away, I pray you, from your servant. 4  Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree; 5  and I will fetch a morsel of bread and you comfort your hearts. After that, you may pass on, for therefore you have come to your servant.” And they said, “Do so, as you have said.” 6  And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.” 7  And Abraham ran to the herd and fetched a calf, tender and good, and gave it to a young man, and he hastened to have it dr...

And when Abram was ninety years old and nine (99), the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am the Almighty God. Walk before Me, and you be perfect. 2  And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.” 3  And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying, 4  “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you will be a father of many nations. 5  Neither will your name be called Abram anymore, but your name will be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made you. 6  And I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come out of you. 7  And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you. 8  And I will give to you and to your seed after you the land wherein you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possessi...

  Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children; and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 2  And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the L ORD  has restrained me from bearing. I pray you, go in to my maid. It may be that I may obtain children by her.” And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai. 3  And Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. 4  And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 5  And Sarai said to Abram, “My wrong be upon you. I have given my maid into your bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. The L ORD  judges between me and you.” 6  But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her as it pleases you.” And when Sarai dealt hard with her, she fled from her ...