Christmas celebrates the coming of Christ. The invasion of the visible world by the invisible. “We interrupt this broadcast!” For a specific purpose, says the Bible. “I have come that they might have LIFE and have it abundantly.” (John 10:10) Think about it. Apart from this result (people born into supernatural LIFE rather than just natural life, unlimited LIFE rather than life limited by years) the coming of Christ was a colossal failure! The reason for the season is the healing of the human heart and the gift of eternal life!
So. . .on this 11th day of our prayer journey, will you pray for people to be called to Christ?
Will you pray for them to experience an insatiable hunger for eternal answers? For every Christmas carol to wake within them an awareness of their own emptiness, a determination to “follow the star” until it leads to the Savior? Will you pray for the Spirit to use every Christmas concert, every worship service, every testimony? Take time with this assignment. It is reason for the season.
Re: Verse reading – Luke 7:1-17 (day one)
Amazing grace
How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now I’m found
Was blind, but now I see
‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed
My chains are gone
I’ve been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood His mercy reigns
Unending love, amazing grace
(Chris Tomlin – Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)
Father, call the lost into this Life!! May the blind see. May we know You in ever increasing measure. Amen.