HOLIDAYS!!!!

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 302

November 1, 2016

 

Ok!! did you notice the date above…….November 1st?????

Twenty-Three days until Thanksgiving, Eight weeks until Christmas and Nine weeks until this year is gone!

Think about how fast a week goes by and you might be like me and have to fight back a small amount of panic or maybe a large amount of panic. Or maybe it is not panic but a Lord Jesus Help me cry.

As the season of Thanksgiving and Christmas approached we need to take a deep breath and remember the reasons for the upcoming holidays.

Thanksgiving is a time for celebrating friends and family and the desire to live in peace.  It is time to celebrate the freedoms we enjoy in the United States. However you celebrate, be Thankful and share smiles and love.

Psalm 69:30 (KJV)
30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

Christmas is a time to Celebrate the giver of life and the Freedom his coming purchased for mankind.  We can never be truly free until we know the one who came to set us free from the bondage the enemy of our soul desires to keep us in. Whatever you do, keep the childhood wonder and joy in your celebrations.

John 3:16 (KJV)
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

As the year ends do not think of it as the end but think of the beginning.  Another year of opportunities and miracles.

Philippians 3:13 (KJV)
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

Maybe your life at this moment is in such turmoil that you think the above way to celebrate is absurd.  I challenge you to reach out to someone who is hurting and someone who is going through a more difficult time than you.  God gave that we might live.  Give of yourself and you will find these next few weeks can actually change your life forever.

1 John 3:18 (KJV)
18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

In the next eight or nine weeks the worlds systems will try to rob you of your Peace, Joy and Love.  I challenge you to do as I tell my Granddaughters: “Remember who you are and whose you are.”

As sons and daughters of the most high God we can journey through this season with an attitude of calm, peace and caring for each other.

What a difference we can make to all those we come in contact with as we replace rushing with calmness: frowns with smiles: pushing with waiting: frustration with peace: and grouchiness with joy.

Whatever pushes your button to lose your peace, ask God to keep you aware of it and to replace it with a complete dependence on Him.

Nehemiah 8:10 (KJV)
; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

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Father, thank you for the Blessing of this year. Thank you for the next few weeks of celebrations and awareness of all you have placed in our hands. We praise you for your love and plan of redemption. We praise you for the beauty of the earth you created and we praise you for family and friends.  I decree and declare that this will be the best holiday ever as we celebrate you, Father God, the giver of life. I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord. Amen

 

Great release comes through Praise!

Love, MeMaw