Tim Euler

At the end of November, one of our partners, BJUPress, posted a scripture reading plan to read the book of Luke throughout December. When I saw it, I instantly took a screenshot and decided I was going to embark on this journey. I honestly wondered why I had never done this before. It didn’t take long for me to begin the reading plan and to be both blessed and convicted.

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;

Luke 1:68-72

When I read these verses, I was reminded of the true meaning of the season: to have a relationship with the living God, to have Him visit us and be manifested within us, giving us the gift of salvation. The reason we celebrate His birth is to truly understand, as verse 37 says, “For with God nothing shall be impossible.”

My mind then shifted, as it always does, to how this revelation truly impacts my life and the calling I have. Over the past 25 years, I have been deeply involved in Kingdom Education. All three of my boys have been educated in Kingdom Education schools, with the foundation of God’s Word embedded in their hearts and minds. Two of my boys have graduated, and now I have three grandchildren beginning their educational journey in a Kingdom Education setting.

You cannot convince me otherwise: when God’s Word is deeply rooted in the curriculum, teacher training, classroom interactions, and the core of education, daily Christmas is alive and celebrated. When we have God literally visiting with us every day while we open textbooks for math, science, history, English, foreign languages, arts, and athletics, lives are changed, hearts and minds are renewed, and eternity is impacted.

Looking back, was it all a sacrifice for my family and children? Most definitely. We may have missed out on experiences that others had. We may not have participated in everything that some may have wanted or desired. But what we did gain was a focus on what truly matters: Jesus Above All. What we did receive was a Kingdom Education that, Lord willing, will transform generations of Eulers to come. I would never have allowed my children, looking back, to choose anything other than what God allowed them to experience.

At a Kingdom school, you literally are bathed in what Jesus was bathed in.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

Luke 2:52

This is how Kingdom Education and Christmas intersect. This is not only the why behind Kingdom Education, but also the benefit: daily experiencing the manifested presence of God within the educational process. You are bound to produce warriors for the Kingdom who are ten times better than anything Babylon has to offer.

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Give Thanks

“Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.”

Psalms 100:1-5

I am reminded often of the song, Give Thanks. It starts off with the line, Give Thanks with a grateful heart. I process this when I am having a difficult day. How can I give thanks while still walking through the trials of life?

When The Tabernacle was built in Exodus, we were given a progression of relationship building with our Father.

Outer Courts = Thanksgiving

Inner Court = Praise

Holy of Holies = Worship

`This progression lays out a path to the presence of God. When we begin cleaning out our own hearts and offering up thanksgiving in the outer courts, our lives begin to be renewed. It is in the outer courts of the tabernacle that we begin to prepare our hearts for praise and worship.

Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Psalm 29:2

 O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endures forever.

1 Chronicles 16:34

It is in the state of thanksgiving we begin to grasp the understanding that God is due all the praise and worship. We serve a relational God who desires us over any form of religion. Our offering of thanks sows seed into fertile ground.

True thanksgiving is an offering from the heart and not lip service. We live in a society where we are judged by the portrait of another person’s life. It is a compare and compete game that interrupts how we should offer thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is the first step to entering His presence. When it is hard to be thankful, it makes the gift all that more valuable. Sacrifice is hard and it is why it is step one to praise and worship.

We offer up thanksgiving not because of who we are but because of who He is. Our thanksgiving removes selfishness, pride, entitlement, comparison, and covetousness. It opens us up to a relationship with our Creator. Being thankful is the first step of recognizing who He is!

I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people, In the courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.

Psalms 116:16-19