In my last post I said this one would be like the letter inside, but it’s not really.  It’s not about what has happened in the last year like people do in their Christmas letters.  There was simply too much in this journal entry to put in one post.  Some of it will be redundant. Just saying!

From the journal . . . . December 2024

Jesus, I adore you. I’m so glad that You want me to be with you, here on earth and later in heaven.

That’s what I have for this Christmas. You want us with You!!  That’s why You came as a baby to be with us!

And I Believe God Said:

My love is unconditional. Good or bad, sinful or redeemed, I love My children.

I love the people in my life.  Family, close friends, acquaintances, and strangers that I pray for. Sometimes the many needs that people have are overwhelming and I’m unsure how to help, so I pray.  If I am moved to compassion or love for people, it is because the Lord God has given me that compassion. For what do I have that I have not received?

1Cor 4:7 For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

I know I am not unique in loving people. Many of you care deeply about people and share the frustration of not being able to help in times of need.  Despite what we think and what we see on the outside, most people need a touch from God more than anything we could possibly do or give. I believe His response to me here confirms that and so I want to share it with you in hopes to bring encouragement.

He hears all of our prayers, and this was a response to some of my recent ones.

And I Believe God Said:

You want Me to give Cheri a baby, yet you know that I have a perfect plan for her and Kevin. Pray that they would trust Me with My plan for their lives. 

Jeremiah 29:11  For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for prosperity and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

You want Teresa’s pain to stop but you trust My plan for her. Pray for Teresa to surrender to My will for her and for those she loves.

Romans 8:28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Young Bella wants to be close to Me. She testified that she knows the pain she has gone through in the past eighteen months caused her faith to grow.

James 1:2-4  Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials,  knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.  And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Lord, I don’t like seeing my loved ones hurting but when You work it for their good, how can I not want that? 

Lord, I am so amazed by You!  Amazing, Perfect, Father, God who wants to be with me!!!

I have one more thing.  This is what I believe He said when I was struggling with how to put it together to make sense for people reading it.

Trust Me to guide you. The idea of how to pray is very important but knowing that I have the right answers is crucial.

Matt 6:9-13 “Pray, then, in this way:
‘Our Father, who is in heaven,Hallowed be Your name.
our kingdom come.
Your will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.’

Luke 22:42 saying, “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.”