By Robert Kayanja
The Christmas message is about a ‘Homeboy Hometown Miracle.’
The bible tells us the day Jesus was born many things happened. Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David.
Christmas is about the hometown. A hometown is where you grew up. It may be a village by now, but because of the Holy Spirit, you are going to turn it into a town. Something happened to Bethlehem. They call it Bethlehem Ephrathah with means Bethlehem the little one. It was not on the map before, David put it there when he became King of Israel.
Joseph was a homeboy, everybody knew he had moved to Jerusalem in order to make a leaving. He was about to get married, but all of a sudden God interrupted. Christmas is about God interrupting your program with something better than you are holding .
May God interrupt your cause by a miracle in your life. May He bring Good news to your life. May He bring Joy to your house. Joy to then world, the Savior is born. Are you ready for interruption? There are no restrictions .
Everything about Jesus is interruption. The shepherds were watching the flock by the night , and the angel came and interrupted them. Joseph was a carpenter planning for his wedding, the angel interrupted him and said; your wife is going to bare a child. Herod the king interrupted.
We are in a season of being interrupted by heaven. There are people that don’t know what is happening with you because when God deals with a person, it is a private matter. But what He gives you is going to become public. God is about to publicise you. Maybe they call you a no body, a carpenter.
Why would Joseph marry a girl not from his home town? That was because no body in his home town could marry him. Nobody, because they knew his family. Joseph was a carpenter. So he left Bethlehem and went to Nazareth where nothing good could happen and he settled there. Here, he found a girl called Mary.
Christmas is not about where you are now. It is about where you are coming from. That is where God is going to open doors for you. That is where they are going to realise that though you left miserable, weak, and poor, God found you and impacted you, interrupted your life, now you are bigger than what everybody says.
Joseph was frustrated. He had no place to take his wife. Joseph had to learn to deliver his first baby, who was not his actually – but he had to make sure everything went right during delivery.
Some of you men, that could have been an opportunity to strangle the baby, because he is not yours. But Christmas is about divine interruption. Divine intersections. Divine power coming into your life.
The bible says angels in heaven rejoiced at the announcement of Jesus’ birth, and the shepherds praised God. There were choirs all over the skies. Bethlehem Ephrathah became the biggest capital city where only God could come. All of a sudden, angles where appearing to shepherds. They moved to the kraal where Jesus was.
Jesus, the riches person in heaven and earth. The son of God, the great I am, laid on hay designed for animals. But from this position He demonstrated the power of God when He lifted Mary and Joseph. Ladies and gentlemen, Christmas is about a ‘Homeboy Hometown miracle.’
Lowly as you are, God is going to do something incredible. You will turn your village into town. From that moment on, people started talking about Joseph and Marry. No wonder God had to tell them, take the child to Egypt. There was too much light about Him. They could not hid Him any longer.
