Jesus Held His Peace

Merry Christmas! No matter what your going through today whether it's joyous or not, remember to keep the peace and march on! Jesus, the Savior of the World has been born and He is your answer and He is your Prince of peace.

God Bless.

Jesus held His peace. – Matt 26:63

The striking thing about the trial of Jesus was that His enemies could find nothing against Him. It is worth our while, too, to notice how Jesus answered the calumnies and false witnessings – He was silent to all the charges. It is well we should remember how our Master bore Himself when He was wronged. We should not vex ourselves over unkind treatment from others. It is a great lesson, to learn to be silent under injury. We talk altogether too much. Yet there come times when we must speak, when it would be treason to truth to remain silent. Jesus answered not a word before His accusers, until the high priest adjured Him to say whether He was the Messiah or not. At once He broke silence. We must never be silent when the interests of right and truth demand that we speak.

The saddest thing in all that night to Jesus was the denial by His greatest apostle. We give Him joy by being faithful and true to Him; we grieve Him by every act or word or thought of disloyalty.

Derek Prince Ministries

Advent: How Do We Live This Out

With the end of the advent season upon us and Christmas is tomorrow, this question seems to be a very valid question and my hope is this little devotional will help not only with the Christmas story and advent, but also in your life, your home, the rest of the year but mostly in the year to come.

God Bless and Merry Christmas!

How Do We Live This Out?

Our capacity to love is fully and completely dependent on the grace of God, which fortunately for us, is constant and far bigger than human capability or understanding. We must be careful not to define love solely on our ability to choose it or decide upon it, while this is an important aspect for us, as believers, to live a life of love. However, this would, in fact, leave love at the mercy of our ability, which is not love in the fullest degree of it’s existence. So we must first depend on God’s grace, we must love God through our faith and trust in Him. And then we must abide in His love daily, as to not forget it or be deceived by those that oppose it.

Jesus tells us that after an experience of His love, we are to love others. As believers, this love unifies us, His church, as we build one another up to love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:23-25). To those far from God, our love for one another marks us and sets us apart (John 13:34-35). God displays His love for the world through us, us loving others as He loved us. It is no surprise that this is what Christ calls us to, given the stark difference between His love, void of self motivation and desires, and the love the world knows, which can often be merely a fleeting emotion perpetuated by a desire to be loved in return.

"The love of God is not God’s making much of us, but God’s saving us from self-centeredness so that we can enjoy making much of Him forever. And our love to others is not our making much of them, but helping them to find satisfaction in making much of God. True love aims as satisfying people in the glory of God. Any love that terminates on man is eventually destructive. It does not lead people to the only lasting joy, namely, God. Love must be God-centered, or it is not true love; it leaves people without their final hope of joy.” John Piper

How can we give the love of Christ away? How can we display it to others?

Families With Young Children

Read Luke 15:11-31. KIDS, God’s love is so different from our love. We do not always feel love or express love towards others. God always loves us, unconditionally! In the Bible story, why did the young son come home? (he had spent all his money and he thought he could work for his father) Did the young son think that his father would forgive him? (no) What did his father do? (he welcomed him home and threw him a party) Why did the father welcome his young son? (he loved him, just as God loves us)

Name ways you show the love of Christ to others? Christmas is in two days and God showed us His love by giving us the best gift of all. What was that gift?(Jesus)

Pray and ask God to show you how to love others. Pray for those that need to feel love. Thank God that Jesus is the reason for this Christmas season. Thank God for giving you a family to love and that loves you.

Waiting Expectantly

I find this little devotional perfect for this day. One it's Christmas Eve and we have been patiently waiting and two, tomorrow is suppose to be the most wonderful day of the year.

So, I wanted to share this along with my wishes for a Merry Christmas to all!

God Bless.

Waiting Expectantly

Have you been praying about a situation in your life and found yourself waiting for a breakthrough? Are you wondering why the answer hasn't come yet? Do you feel as though victory is passing you by?

Sometimes when we pray long and hard about a situation in our life without receiving any answers, we just learn to live with it. We go on about our business, wondering if or when God will send the answer. But God does hear those prayers, and He's working out the answers even though we may not know all the details. Our situation can change suddenly, quickly, without warning!

Until then we can either wait passively or expectantly. A passive person gives up, but the expectant person, on the other hand, is hopeful, believing the answer is just around the corner, due to arrive any minute. His belief is not a passive thing. His heart is full of hope, expecting his problem to be solved at any moment. He wakes up every morning expecting to find his answer. He may wait and wait, but he'll keep asking until suddenly, God turns everything around.

Prayer Starter: God, I want to wait expectantly, not passively. I'll keep asking You for my breakthrough, knowing full well that You'll bring it at the right time.

Joyce Meyer Ministries

A Calm Delight

Oh how I wish I could live everyday in joy but life gets in the way and bills still keep coming. And as this Christmas fast approaches us, along with the new year, and we don't see our situation changing anytime soon, well this little devotional can give us just the hope we need to make a change in our lives, in our hearts, and even make a difference out in the real world.

So, let's catch the joy train and get off the polar express poor me pity party train and grab ourselves some joy and then go forth and spread the wealth.

God Bless. 

A Calm Delight

by Joyce Meyer 

You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy.
—Psalm 16:11

When you consider joy, you may immediately think about one of those bubbly people you know who is “up” all of the time, and perhaps you are not like that. I’m not like that either. But for those of us who tend to be more serious, it is important that we also learn how to have fun, to cut loose, and lighten up a little.

What is joy and what is joy based on? Joy is defined as “a shout; a proclamation that can manifest in singing; a calm delight.” Your joy is not to be based on your circumstances. Happiness may be based on what is happening to you, but not joy. Joy—a fruit of the Spirit—is like a deep well on the inside of you. It is not the fruit of your circumstance. No matter what you are facing in life, you can have joy in the midst of it. Learn to abide in the midst of a calm delight.

From the book Ending Your Day Right by Joyce Meyer. Copyright © 2004 by Joyce Meyer. Published by FaithWords. All rights reserved.

Advent: Mary Was Perplexed

I don't know about you but if a man came into my room and told me I was going to be carrying a child without having sex, I would have become a Sarah and laughed in his face. In fact, I'm not to sure I wouldn't have slapped the angel silly.

But luckily God didn't choose me. He choose Mary. A woman who yes excepted the things being said to her but also was humble enough to ask questions, have a godly attitude, and a faith that would bring forth the Savior of the world. Hat's off to Mary!

God Bless and Merry Christmas!

Mary was perplexed! A strange man had just entered her room and had started to talk about things like favor and God and greetings! Who is he and what in the world is he talking about?

I can nearly hear Mary’s racing heartbeat as she attempted to process all that was happening around her this day.

As the Angel Gabriel continued to tell the message of heaven to this young girl, perhaps Mary’s fear subsided and a humble awakening began to dawn in her heart.

“Me?! God chose me?! I am the chosen one to carry God’s child? The mother of the Messiah?”

Christmas, for Mary, was about understanding that God’s ways are so much higher than our ways. Mary was learning, like all of us must, that when Divinity invades humanity ... Divinity always wins! Christmas is a reminder to me ... and to you ... and to Mary ... that His ways are always higher and better than anything that we could ever think or imagine.

Christmas has nothing to do with dancing elves, reindeer with red noses and snowmen who sing. Christmas is about an invasion! Christmas happens at the moment when heaven’s light invades the darkness of planet earth!

Christmas will always drive the worst of sinners to ponder what kind of salutation the Christmas story brings. Either Christmas is a bold-faced lie or it is ultimate truth. It can be nothing else.

Either the manger should be placed in the same category as elves, jolly old Saint Nicholas and flying reindeer ... or it is absolute, divine and eternal Truth.

Christmas is not about the holiday spirit that rushes toward us the day after Thanksgiving and compels us to shop, spend, and eat. Christmas is about the Holy Spirit bringing peace and joy through a Baby Boy to the mess that we have made of planet earth. It is about the power of heaven’s reality invading one life. Christmas commences the moment a person realizes the longing that has always existed to be overshadowed by all that He is and all that He does!

It happened for Mary ... and it can happen for you! Perhaps an appropriate prayer to pray this Christmas would be, “Holy Spirit! Overshadow me! Overshadow my dreams, my preferences and opinions! Birth something new and something grand in me! Create something in me that will change this generation for the Kingdom of Christ!”

-Author Unknown

Advent: The Choices We Make

This advent devotional is with deep depth and puts you in a thinking mode.

What better way than to celebrate the birth of Christ than by thinking about the choices we made and how we can improve on them while leaving the choices that have been a mistake behind us!

Isn't that the reason why Jesus was born? To wipe away our bad choices and make all things new? I believe so and that can be life changing if you let it.

God Bless and Merry Christmas.

The Choices We Make

I have chosen the way of truth; Your judgments I have laid before me. - Psalm 119:30, NKJV

From the time we make the choice to open our eyes and get out of bed in the morning until we make the choice to go back to bed and close our eyes in the evening, our days are filled with a series of choices. We choose

where we go,

what we do,

what we believe,

and how we behave.

Our own lives, reputations, relationships, careers, health, future, and values are shaped by the choices we make. The choice

to lie or to tell the truth,

to seek vengeance or to forgive,

to ignore God or to acknowledge God,

determines the type of person we are. Without question, the most important choice you will ever make involves your attitude toward God and your relationship with Him.

From God's Story
Anne Graham Lotz 

For As He Thinks In His Heart So Is He

This is some great advice we can find in this devotional for not only in this season but for the coming year.

Let's face it, anxiety is a killer. It can kill your faith, kill your marriage, steal your joy, wreck a home, and everything in between. 

Anxiety is something we all must deal with and the faster we get it conquered the better off our lives will be. Not saying it will ever truly be gone from our lives but we do have a weapon we can use against it and win in the end.

God Bless.


“For as he thinks in his heart so is he..” Proverbs 23:7

As anxiety creeps up and fears come to my mind and heart, God gently nudges me and asks, “What are you focusing on? Are you focusing on the problem or Me?”

Proverbs 23:7 tells us, “For as he thinks in his heart so is he.” As I read this Scripture, conviction fell heavy on my heart. I was thinking negative thoughts of worry and fear. It is no wonder I was feeling so anxious, I took my eyes away from God. This scripture shows us how powerful our thought life can be. As our mind is thinking of worry, we are giving the enemy a foot hold in our lives.

If you are struggling in a particular area of your life, take notice of what kind of thoughts you are entertaining and receiving. Are you entertaining anxious thoughts? Or are you standing firm on God’s word and rebuking the thoughts of worry and fear? God’s word is our weapon, but it is our responsibility to use it to battle the enemy. Today I pray we focus on taking hold of every thought (see 2 Corinthians 10:5)!

Declare this today from your heart:

For as I think so I will be! I will think on thoughts of the Kingdom today. Father, I invite you into my thought life. Jesus, be Lord of my mind. Forgive me for meditating on thoughts of worry and fear. I rebuke the enemy and every worrying thought he brings to my mind. I choose to ponder no longer on his ideas. I focus on what is true. Your word is true. I plead the blood of Jesus over my mind, and every thought that I have. I am made pure by His blood. May His blood wash over my mind and purify it. Lord, empower me to take every thought captive. As lies come up, help me to be aware. As negative thoughts creep in, help me to take notice. When I get distracted, nudge my heart to focus back on you. I am a child of the living God, and I will walk in my renewed mind! I will meditate on your word and focus on your promise. For you God are life everlasting, the answer to every prayer, and my strength to help me overcome today! In Jesus Name, Amen

 Derek Prince Ministries