Heading Toward Christmas Thinking about Gifts Matthew 6:25-26

What NOT to Buy Your Wife:

Don’t buy anything that plugs in.

What NOT to Buy Your Wife: Don’t buy anything that plugs in. Don’t buy clothing that involves sizes.

What NOT to Buy Your Wife: Don’t buy anything that plugs in. Don’t buy clothing that involves sizes. Avoid all things useful.

What NOT to Buy Your Wife: Don’t buy anything that involves weight loss or self-improvement.

What NOT to Buy Your Wife: Don’t buy anything that involves weight loss or self-improvement. Don’t buy jewelry.

What NOT to Buy Your Wife: Don’t buy anything that involves weight loss or self-improvement. Don’t buy jewelry. Do not buy her frilly under things.

What NOT to Buy Your Wife: Finally… Don’t spend too much.

What NOT to Buy Your Wife: Finally… Don’t spend too much. But… Don’t spend too little.

God Knows Gifts

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17

Gifts we’ve been given by God

Physical Gifts

Gifts we’ve been given by God Physical Gifts Material Gifts

Gifts we’ve been given by God Physical Gifts Material Gifts Spiritual Gifts

Gifts we’ve been given by God Physical Gifts Material Gifts Spiritual Gifts The Church

God Given Physical Gifts “But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.” II Corinthians 4:7

God Given Physical Gifts “The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” Genesis 2:7

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” Psalm 139:13-14

Are We Thankful for our Families?

“He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the LORD.” Proverbs 18:22

“While I was still searching but not finding— I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.” Ecclesiastes. 7:28

“Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.” Proverbs 17:6

God Given Material Gifts

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.” Matthew 6:25-26

God Given Material Gifts “Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?” Matthew 6:25-26

God Given Material Gifts “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.” Matthew 6:25-26

God Given Material Gifts “Are you not much more valuable than they?” Matthew 6:25-26

God Given Spiritual Gifts

The Bible

“I would recommend you either believe God to the hilt, or else not believe at all. Believe this book of God, every letter of it, or else reject it.” Charles Spurgeon

The Bible “I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.” Psalm 119:11

The Bible “The Bible will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from the Bible.” Rob Faust

The Bible “I hold fast to your statutes, O LORD; do not let me be put to shame.” If we hold fast to the Word of God we will not be put to shame in life.” Psalm 119:31

The Bible “My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word.” Psalm 119:81

The Bible “If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.” Psalm 119:92-93

The Bible “Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes. Psalm 119:98-99

The Bible “I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.” “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.” Psalm 119:100 & 105

God Gift of the Church

God Knows Gifts “And it shall come to pass that, before they call, I will answer.” Isaiah 65:24

God Knows Gifts ’Tis the season to remember and give thanks!