December 28, 2025
We Three Kings
- Lindon Faull
Many are saying of me, “God will not deliver him.”- Psalm 3:2 NIV
There is no circumstances, no place so dark, that God’s light can’t bring hope to anyone, anywhere!
“God is not human, that He should lie, ” - Numbers 23:19a NIV
The Lord is not slow in keeping His promises; as some understand slowness. - 2 Peter 3:9a NIV
Can plunder be taken from warriors,
or captives rescued from the fierce?
But this is what the Lord says:
“Yes, captives will be taken from warriors,
and plunder retrieved from the fierce;” - Isaiah 49:24-25a NIV
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. - Hebrews 11:1 NIV
But your wrongdoings have caused a separation between you and your God.
And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear. - Isaiah 59:2 NASB
As for God, his way is perfect;
the Lord’s word is flawless; - Psalm 18:30a NIV
“Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.
See, darkness covers the earth
and thick darkness is over the peoples,
but the Lord rises upon you
and his glory appears over you.
Nations will come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
Herds of camels will cover your land,
young camels of Midian and Ephah.
And all from Sheba will come,
bearing gold and incense
and proclaiming the praise of the Lord.” - Isaiah 60:1-3,6 NIV
My son give me your heart - Proverbs 23:26a NIV
What a person desires is unfailing love; - Proverbs 19:22a NIV
For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. - 1 Corinthians 1:25 NIV
I am sending him – who is my very heart - Philemon 1:12a NIV
“And you are heirs of the prophets and the covenant God made with your fathers. He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.’” -Acts 3:25 NIV
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, ‘Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” - Matthew 2:1-2 NIV
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly see, being understood from what has been made so that people are without excuse. - Romans 1:20 NIV
When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born. “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written: … Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.” - Matthew 2:3-5; 7-8 NIV
The unfolding of your words gives light; - Psalm 119:130a NIV
After they heard the King, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route. - Matthew 2:9-12 NIV
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” - Jeremiah 29:13 NIV
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” - Luke 2:14 NIV
“And in despair I bowed my head
There is no peace on earth I said,
For hate is strong and mocks the song
Of peace on earth and good will to men.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Christmas Bells
“You can get high on sex. You can get high on Alcohol. You can get high on all kinds of drugs. I was high on hate and violence.” - Nicky Cruz
The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. - Romans 8:7-8 NIV
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. - John 3:19-20 NIV
“When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.” - Acts 3:26 NIV
“You study the scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” - John 5:39-40 NIV
“These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” - Matthew 15:8 NIV
At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. - Titus 3:3-5 NIV
“When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways’ – Acts 3:26 NIV
For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. - Hebrews 10:14 NIV
So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourself with Christ. - Galatians 3:26-27 NIV
“Then rang the bells more loud and deep
God is not dead, nor doth He sleep
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail
With peace on earth, good will to men.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christmas Bells
After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands. - Revelation 7:9 NIV