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It connects the Christmas story to God’s love—through Jesus’ birth, death, and resurrection—and to the Holy Spirit’s promised presence and power. Citing biblical scenes from Acts and Luke, it highlights how Zechariah, Elizabeth, Mary, Simeon, and Anna are moved by the Spirit. The message continues with Jesus’ teaching to disciples, Pentecost, and Paul’s letters in Galatians and Corinthians, emphasizing gifts, guidance, and the lasting joy of the Spirit.","Literacy International: It's Not Just For Christmas  \nCopyright © 2018 Literacy International [info@LiteracyInternational.net](info@LiteracyInternational.net)  \nEnglish Spiritual  \nLiteracy International: It's Not Just For Christmas  \nCopyright © 2018 Literacy International [info@LiteracyInternational.net](info@LiteracyInternational.net)  \nEnglish  \nCopyright © 2018, Literacy International  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nChristmas is not just for a day or for a season. It is for always. If Christmas were just about shopping, it would become boring; we would grow tired of it. However, if Christmas is about God’s love and about our being thankful, then Christmas lasts and lasts and lasts.  \nIt is not just because of the loving gifts we receive from friends and family. It is not just because we can also give to others. It is because our Father in Heaven, in His love for us, has given us His Son Jesus, and our Savior Jesus has given us the gift of the Holy Spirit.  \nWhen our Lord Jesus Christ was about to return to the Father in Heaven, He said to His followers,“Wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. In a few days you will receive the Holy Spirit. You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you shall be my witnesses even to the ends of the earth.”(Acts 1:4-5, 8)  \nThe Heavenly Father gave us His great love in the gift of His Son. Jesus gives us the gift of eternal life through His death and returning to life. The Holy Spirit gives us power, leading, and the understanding of God’s Word.  \nWhy do we tell about the Holy Spirit along with the Christmas story? Because the Holy Spirit is mentioned in the Gospel of Luke beginning with the parents of John the Baptist, Zechariah and Elizabeth. An angel told Zechariah about his son John,“He will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from birth.” And we are told about Elizabeth, that she “was filled with the Holy Spirit.” Again we learn that Zechariah “was filled with the Holy Spirit,” singing a song of joy. When John was born “the child grew and became strong in spirit.”  \nAn angel came to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and told her,“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.”  \nWe read of old Simeon, who once held the Baby Jesus,“The Holy Spirit was upon him (Simeon) . It had been told to him by the Holy Spirit ... that he would not die before he had seen the Lord Christ ... moved by the Spirit he went into the temple courts...” where he met Joseph, Mary, and the baby Jesus. At the same time elderly Anna, a woman of much prayer, saw baby Jesus and knew by the Spirit that Jesus was the promised Savior. She spoke everywhere that the Savior had come. (Luke 2)  \nThere are many other sayings about the Holy Spirit and Jesus such as,“He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit... the Holy Spirit came down upon Him, looking like a dove ... Jesus, full of the Spirit, was led by the Spirit into the desert... Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit...”  \nWhen Jesus read out loud from the Book of Isaiah  \n61:1, 2,“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news,” Jesus said that the 700-year-old verses from Isaiah came true that day, in Him, Jesus.  \nAnd He told His disciples,“the Holy Spirit will teach you what you should say... I am going to send what My Father has promised (the Holy Spirit), but stay in the city until you have been given power from on high.”This was to show them and us what a great gift the Holy Spirit is. 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