Lord, thank you for allowing us to see the end of another year 2011 and the beginning of a new year 2012! While some had victories others had losses that were so hard to bare. My prayer is God that you would heal my friends that have lost loved ones throughout this year. A difficult and painful year for some, I pray that you help them to cast all their cares on you. God only you know their hearts and the grief that they have had to deal with and while they walk around with a smile and a praise on their lips, their heart is broken. I just pray that you would shower them with your love. Send the right people to be around them to help encourage and lift their spirits, comfort them through your word.
Several have lost jobs this year, I pray that you would continue to be Jehovah Jireh our provider. As the uncertainty of not knowing where and how things are going to get paid, Lord please send them a ram in the bush. There are some who have faced foreclosure and are worried about finding a place to stay, my prayer is that you would direct them to the right people and place, that landlords will look past credit issues and will allow them to have a place to stay.
For some 2011 was the conception year where they saw the dreams and promises from afar, but it wasn't time for them to be released. I pray that as you embark on this new year that you prepare yourself for the promises. Make room for the things of God that he has prepared for you and your families. No longer see yourself lacking but see yourself in the fullness of God.
Finally my 2012 prayer concludes on these words: that this will be a year of release of dreams and promises,a year of renewal of the mind, body and spirit, a year where you will not settle, but you will take hold of the promises that have been given to you and a year of restoration for those that have had losses (family, job, homes, cars)that you and your families would receive GOD'S (his)unlimited resources. 2012 May it be A GOD SIZED YEAR!
Forgetting those things that are behind continue to press forward! 2012 will be a year of RELEASE.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Saturday, December 10, 2011
The Gift!
Every year I would check to see if what I wanted was under the tree, I just knew Santa Claus would have that special gift for me....Nothing like waking up at 4am to see if what I really wanted was under the tree. Shaking boxes and turning things upside down...While I smiled, there was a part of me that was still left looking for that gift. Did my parents hide it under the couch? Where is it, why can't I find it?
You know the gift I am talking about? The one that makes you smile and all of your friends had one and it was advertised on the television, in the magazines and even on the radio...you know the gift! Ahh....exasperated by the search, I finally gave up!
Years later I recalled a time, when I found one of my presents and opened it up. YES! It's the New Edition album I wanted, but wait, I can't let my mother know that I opened my gift. See that's what my Christmas use to look like. My parents were very generous to us and even if they didn't have enough money my parents made sure that we had everything on our list. Hmmm....I can remember asking for things that I knew I didn't want but I knew my parents would make sure that I had it!
Christmas to me is special and there is a gift that I only pray that someone of you will receive if you have not received it. See that gift was wrapped up and the world could not see it, the gift was hidden, it was protected and when it was time to be opened, the gift didn't have all of the fancy paper around it or a bow on it. Yet the gift came to a dark world to bring light so that men, women, boys and girls could receive that light.
The gift I am speaking of us is none other than that of Jesus Christ. Absolutely the best gift anyone can receive. Unlike the gifts we receive at Christmas, Jesus is always with us, helping to lead us along the path of life. The gift of Jesus Christ promises to never leave us or forsake us. Furthermore, he came that we could have an abundant life, but the only way that you can have that abundant life is if you accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior.
"For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father [of Eternity], Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9:6AMP
This Christmas, consider the gift that never ends!
You know the gift I am talking about? The one that makes you smile and all of your friends had one and it was advertised on the television, in the magazines and even on the radio...you know the gift! Ahh....exasperated by the search, I finally gave up!
Years later I recalled a time, when I found one of my presents and opened it up. YES! It's the New Edition album I wanted, but wait, I can't let my mother know that I opened my gift. See that's what my Christmas use to look like. My parents were very generous to us and even if they didn't have enough money my parents made sure that we had everything on our list. Hmmm....I can remember asking for things that I knew I didn't want but I knew my parents would make sure that I had it!
Christmas to me is special and there is a gift that I only pray that someone of you will receive if you have not received it. See that gift was wrapped up and the world could not see it, the gift was hidden, it was protected and when it was time to be opened, the gift didn't have all of the fancy paper around it or a bow on it. Yet the gift came to a dark world to bring light so that men, women, boys and girls could receive that light.
The gift I am speaking of us is none other than that of Jesus Christ. Absolutely the best gift anyone can receive. Unlike the gifts we receive at Christmas, Jesus is always with us, helping to lead us along the path of life. The gift of Jesus Christ promises to never leave us or forsake us. Furthermore, he came that we could have an abundant life, but the only way that you can have that abundant life is if you accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior.
"For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father [of Eternity], Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9:6AMP
This Christmas, consider the gift that never ends!
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