Walking with God has benefits. For those who have been walking with God for a while could attest to his goodness. You will face trial and tribulations, but, God will hold your hand through it all. Learn to trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding, but in all your ways acknowledge him; for God’s way is perfect, the way of the Lord is proven, he is a shield to all who trust him. Will you follow God’s way for 2018?

Our God has promised us rain in due season, he has promised us provision from his storehouse. But, it is our lack of faith that prevents us from accessing the goodness of the Lord. Let us pledge this year to continually trust God and patiently wait for his blessings, because our God keeps his promises. No matter what you and I may face this year, let us trust God for favorable outcomes, let us trust in his abilities, and walk with him every step of the way.

My brothers and sisters in Christ, be transformed by the renewing of your minds! We have been conforming to the ways of the world for too long, and this has brought us nothing but sorrow and pain. But, with the birth of the Christ-child, we could now turn a new page, we could begin anew, but it all begins with one step, taking one step closer to God.

Jesus is the reason for the season. So many people want to celebrate the holidays and seem to forget that it’s not just any holiday, it’s the Christmas holiday where we are bound to keep Christ in Christmas, for He is the reason why we are celebrating. We have been waiting expectantly for the return of the Christ-Child, born to set us free from the bondage of sin, and for that, we are thankful, we are joyful, and telling the good news to all who will hear.

You will in your daily life deal with strife, confusion, hatred, jealousy, envy and covetousness, but handle them all with prayer. The more peaceful you are with God and yourself, the easier it is to handle these situations. When your enemies confront you and you respond peacefully it makes them angry. Because they cannot understand why they cannot get you to behave in the same manner. Help them to understand that you have the peace of God which surpasses all understand, and that God’s peace gives you love to concur every foe. Praise the Lord!

“Lo the Lamb so long expected, comes with pardon down from heaven, let us all with tears of sorrow, one and all to be forgiven. So when next He comes with glory, and the world is wrapped in fear, may He with His mercy shield us, and with words of love draw near.”

It’s time to be at peace, to be still and hear the angels sing. “For lo, the days are hastening on, by prophets seen of old, when with the ever circling years, shall come the time foretold. When peace shall over all the earth, its ancient splendors fling, and all the world give back the song, which now the angels sing.”

My brothers and sisters in Christ, if we have received Jesus, our new born king, the joy of the world, then, let us with a gladsome mind sing it out abroad, “Joy to the world the Lord is come, let earth receive her king. Let every heart prepare him room and heaven and nature sing and heaven and and heaven and heaven and nature sing.”

If God’s peace is in our hearts, he will be in our homes. May your hearts and your home be filled with all the joys of the Christmas Season. Let us keep Christ in Christmas. Merry Christmas from our house to your house.

For too long, I have walked the paths of the ungodly, for too long, I have grieved my Lord, but I can no longer walk in willfulness, or out of the way of God. Therefore, I asked my Lord to help me, to make all of my crooked ways straight, and teach me to obey His statutes and walk in the ways of my God. Amen!