I was in prayer looking at all of the Christmas presents Jesuswithoutthejunk was giving to the less fortunate this year and memories of the past started to flood my mind.  I paused and then looked up to God and told Him that I am a Christmas miracle. 

I recall a few short years ago living in my mother’s bedroom (at my sister’s house) and only having, in terms of worldly goods, one light green stackable storage bin, a few clothes hanging in the closet and my car.  At one time, there had even been talk of me staying at the YMCA but it never came to that.  I held firm to the belief that God had a call upon my life. 

For those of you who are truly without, I want to tell you that the Christmas story of Jesus lying in a manger in Bethlehem should not be disregarded and is not just some cuddly story to be read each year on Christmas Eve.  I want to attest to you now that YOU have a deliverer on the throne that will come to you in your greatest distress and save you.  Then IF you will be obedient, He will provide tangible things to you to help you as you continue on your journey.  We don’t serve a “name it and claim it” God…He is so much more.

I have lived on my own for almost seven years now.  I stepped out in faith to rent an apartment with $600.00 to my name that someone had given to me.  I had a broom for a sweeper, slept on a $10.00 box springs and mattress from the Goodwill, washed my clothes at the laundromat and ate more oatmeal for lunch and dinner than I care to think about with the silverware that was bought for me at The Dollar Tree by a friend.  I did this with the belief that God would somehow provide for me every step of the way if I would just do what He told me (work).  At one time, I even thought about writing a “Thank You” note to the Dollar Tree for being in existence.  Today, I have furniture, I have food to eat, and things to wear that I like.  To this day I still shop The Dollar Tree but I now have comfort in my heart where great turmoil and unrest resided for most of my life. 

It is a miracle what God has done in my life and through me so that others might have hope.  This is not a silly game or joke to God.  Heaven is willing to come to you but YOU will have to turn your heart, to not a baby in manger, but to a living Savior and YOU will have to do your part.

A Christmas miracle?  To take someone who needed so much in every way thinkable (money, home, clothes, food, emotionally, physically) and turn them into a conduit for Heaven.....what a testament to God!  God bless you wherever you are this Christmas holiday and KNOW that if God can do so many miracles (and many more I haven’t mentioned) through me, just think of what He can do for you.

May the true peace of Christ rule and reign in your hearts this year and if it doesn’t right now what in the world are you waiting on?

Love,

Molly     

I want to address something different for “Real Life.”  I believe that there comes a time in each person’s life when the Holy Spirit draws a soul to the Father, not just for salvation, but for real life help.  I see both acceptance and rejection to the answers given to people regarding various issues.  I see firsthand where God tries to help get answers to a person by sending His designated agent.  Many, I believe, have missed a great deal from heaven due to judging the individual sent to them instead of being led to the truth by their spirit.      

I have been allowed tangibly to see deaf ears turned to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.  I have also seen Satan try over and again to stop any revelation knowledge from getting to an individual.  This then causes them continued sufferings instead of them receiving the truth God tried to get them about their individual circumstances.

People are in dire need of their Savior.  EVERY answer you NEED is at the foot of the Cross, but you will have to humble yourself and go there. 

I have learned that God is so much bigger than I will ever know and I have to face the fact that I cannot place Him in a box.  There are no particular formulas and/or words spoken in order to have something come to pass in my life.  God is so much more than we all know.

God is bigger than any technological advancement that we can think of or are currently designing.  He thought of all things first and then gives them to man.  There is absolutely nothing man can think of that God did not think of first.  No one will EVER be able to outsmart, outtalk, or out give Him.  Do not think for one second that you can ever fool God either.

He is bigger that any problem you have right now…He is bigger than what you know, how you think, or what you believe.  We need to do ourselves a favor by humbling ourselves at the Cross, acknowledging this, and coming to terms that this world is His, not ours.  He is orchestrating this (our world) for His outcome alone.  You have to face the fact that there is a spiritual battle going on between God and Satan and God is going to win, whether you like it or not.

WE desperately need to mature in the body….we are still babies in Christ.  How do you mature?  The bottom line is that you need to spend time in the word, learning about your Father in heaven.  Then you need to talk to God about what you are reading in the word and wait for Him to guide you.

If you are NOT constantly learning new things about God, getting deeper revelations or advancing in your life and growing up to be the adult you need to be, then something is wrong and you need to listen and reread this, because you have a Father in heaven who is trying to get something to you……are you listening?

Molly      

Psalm 68:19   Blessed be the Lord,

                      Who daily loads us with benefits,

                      The God of our salvation!

I have been praying this prayer every day for about six years.  As I would pray this prayer, I would always focus on the word “benefits,” thinking in my heart of favor with everything I would have to encounter during my days, such as finding a decent parking space and breezing right on through without having to wait in any long lines for anything.  My thoughts were on receiving complete and divine favor with anything I set my hand or foot to.  Then over a month ago, the Holy Spirit slowed me down and had me stop and think about the benefits I was expecting every day.  I pondered over them and then a thought arose on my heart.  Why don’t I ask God for wisdom, discernment and knowledge as benefits for the day instead of tangible things?  In doing so, I might just get something from heaven that will be more beneficial….so I told God what I was thinking and from that moment on, I knew I was maturing into the deeper things of God so I could fulfill my destiny.  I want “the wisdom of all the ages” to rise up within me every day so I can accomplish God’s will for my life.  I know that I do not want to find out when I am brought home that I missed His will by only thinking in small ways and praying, well, really for silly things instead of adult things….deeper benefits of a life lived in Christ.

I believe that we, as the Body of Christ, have been caught in a trap of just thinking we can quote any scripture and a manifestation will appear if “we just believe” without knowing we have deeper benefits available to us as a child of God.  We are thinking of carnal benefits instead of having the benefit of God’s mind for our lives, which to me is worth more that “naming and claiming” a good parking space and the like.  Do you see my point?

God has more for us in the spiritual realm of possibilities but we have not realized the full scope of these things because we are not mature as the Body of Christ and He cannot loose them to us. 

It is going to be up to us to come up into the things that Christ has for us and it is way past time to be mature in the Lord.  Benefits…how do you perceive them?