Our Truest Christmas Gift: The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes, the one-of-a-kind glory, like Father, like Son, Generous inside and out, true from start to finish. John pointed him out and called, “This is the One! The One I told you was coming after me but in fact was ahead of me. He has always been ahead of me, has always had the first word. We all live off his generous abundance, gift after gift after gift. John 1:14-16

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Truest Christmas Gift – Truth

Christmas is the time of year we spend a lot of time with family, so it is good to get our hearts ready to pray for each family member, to pray up the wisdom and truth of God, the peace of God in our homes. Pray for the strength and character of God to rise up within us, the forbearance, patience, and unconditional love Jesus has with us, that we would have with our families this Christmas Season. Truth, our Truest Christmas Gift, Jesus, our Spirit of Truth was gifted to our family in that way only the Father God could do. Let’s walk in the generosity of God’s Truth this Christmas as we speak truly, live truly among our family members, being God’s light of truth to them. 

“I am your best Friend, as well as your King. Walk hand in hand with Me through your life. Together we will face whatever each day brings: pleasures, hardships, adventures, disappointments. Nothing is wasted when it is shared with Me.  I can make beauty out of the ashes of lost dreams. I can glean Joy out of sorrow, Peace out of adversity. Only a Friend, who is also the King of kings could accomplish this divine alchemy. There is no other like Me!” Sarah Young

You are always and dearly loved by God! So robe yourself with virtues of God, since you have been divinely chosen to be holy. Be merciful as you endeavor to understand others, and be compassionate, showing kindness toward all. Be gentle and humble, unoffendable in your patience with others. Tolerate the weaknesses of those in the family of faith, forgiving one another in the same way you have been graciously forgiven by Jesus Christ. If you find fault with someone, release this same gift of forgiveness to them. For love is supreme and must flow through each of these virtues. Love becomes the mark of true maturity. Let your heart be always guided by the peace of the Anointed One, who called you to peace as part of his one body. And always be thankful. Colossians 3 12-15

Gifted With Life Changing Truth

We were gifted Truth, with God’s Living Word, with our Bible, with The Holy Spirit, and in our personal relationship with God, we remain navigated by truth in our family life. (Romans 12:2) We pray today our family would stay in a personal relationship with God, an live out of truth, using this gift in our relationships with each other, in our relating to our world, community, friends, and family in our reality as we do life together. (2 Timothy 3:16-17) We pray our Truest Christmas gift, this gift of truth, be prevalent from every moment to every choice of our family. Father God, may our family live out of this generous gift of truth, (Psalms 19:7-8) gift after gift, after gift, let it be so. Let truth be contagious in our family life, may we live truly, deal truly, and love truly in our family relationships in Jesus Name we pray, Amen. 

“The Truth we must believe is that God is Sovereign. He carries out His own good purposes without ever being thwarted, and He so directs and controls all events and all actions of His creatures that they never act outside of His sovereign will. We must believe this and cling to this in the face of adversity and tragedy, if we are to glorify God by trusting Him. We honor God by choosing to trust Him when we don’t understand what He is doing, or why He has allowed some adverse circumstance to occur.”  Jerry Bridges

Truth Breaks The Grip Of Our Enemy

Paul Trip Said: “Christ broke the power of sin over us, but the presence of sin remains.” Sin is being exposed and eradicated in our lives by truth. We can’t forget how deceitful sin is and when we sin, the consequences are felt by all of our family members. We easily see the sins of the other people in our family, but very rarely see our own sin. The gift of truth, the Spirit of truth speaks to our conscious to open up blinded eyes when it comes to sin and bad behavior. This is what God’s Light does within our family relationships which are subjected to be darkened by deceit of every kind and in every form, in this world we are in but not of. We need to let God work, stay in our own lane, and let God expose and expunge the deception that affects our family life in a negative way. It seems so dark in our world and our relationships, so we let the light of truth shine in our family life. This Christmas, we pray for Jesus to guide our families to the perfect Light of truth. The Light that darkness can never extinguish, the Light of the World! Pray It Up For Your Family:

“Everything can’t be perfect all the time and everything isn’t horrible all the time. Feeling like a terrible human being over one innocent mistake is a way of thinking known as “polarizing” and it leads to frustration and negativity. To stay upbeat about life, accept that you won’t be perfect all the time, and neither will the people or things around you. Why not give people a break and stop demanding something from them that they have no ability to produce? This type of “unrealistic expectation” not only meets with a great deal of disappointment when our expectations are not met, but it also places unbearable pressure on people we care about and can eventually destroy relationships.”Joyce Meyer

Speak Only Wholly-Holy Truth

To each family member, and to each friend, if I could speak to each of them without distraction, one on one, I would make a godly appeal, I would ask for forgiveness for not being perfect throughout my relationship with them.  (2 Corinthians 12:9) Because I know God is perfect and I am not. I would asked to be loved unconditionally, and I would ask that they take every assumption that they have about me and file it in file 13, aka the garbage,  as I will do the same. I would ask them to get to know me,  know me personally, the who of Whose I am.  The Truest Christmas gift, is a good one for our family, it is Truth. More than anything this is what we need in our family life at Christmas. Jesus is the Spirit of Truth. We should love each other that way, with truth, no assumptions, no speculation, no presuppositions, no rationalization, no presumptions, none of these should be a part of our relationship, only truth and love, unconditional love.  Let’s pray that every family can walk in the reality of truth with each other, forgive the imperfections of the past and live in the now.  (Colossians 3:14) 

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”Don’t hit back; discover beauty in everyone. If you’ve got it in you, get along with everybody. Don’t insist on getting even; that’s not for you to do. “I’ll do the judging,” says God. “I’ll take care of it.” Our Scriptures tell us that if you see your enemy hungry, go buy that person lunch, or if he’s thirsty, get him a drink. Your generosity will surprise him with goodness. Don’t let evil get the best of you; get the best of evil by doing good.“ Romans 12:17-21 MSG

Truth! This Is What Jesus Did

In Christ Jesus, because of what He did, because He came here to us, death becomes a lie. The thing most human beings fear (F.alse E.vidence A.ppearing R.eal) Jesus defeated death, He died our death so we could live His life. That is what Jesus did. (Psalm 138:8) It was God’s grand gesture of love to send His Son Jesus here to us and it was Jesus’ choice to come to us. (2 Samuel 22:33) It was personal, this grand gesture of love, so very personal… God in the flesh. I hope our family never gets over this truth and it will always reign prevalent in our homes through our actions toward each other and all the words spoken.  (Psalms 18:32)

Never again will death have the last word. When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us. From now on, think of it this way: Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word. You are dead to sin and alive to God. That’s what Jesus did. That means you must not give sin a vote in the way you conduct your lives. Don’t give it the time of day. Don’t even run little errands that are connected with that old way of life. Throw yourselves wholeheartedly and full-time—remember, you’ve been raised from the dead!—into God’s way of doing things. Sin can’t tell you how to live. After all, you’re not living under that old tyranny any longer. You’re living in the freedom of God. Romans 6 MSG

Truth: Bad Behavior Is Not Loved ~ But People Are

The reality of truth for our family is that God may not have loved our behavior, He may have hated it, but He loved us. He loved us unconditionally with a Grand Gesture Of Love on Christmas.  Jesus came here to us, into our lives, into our now, He made a divine appearance, a huge gesture of unconditional love. We did not deserve it, yet He STILL came. Jesus came to our family with the Truest Christmas Gift, a gift of mercy. God’s grace, (Gods Riches At Christ’s Expense) sent Mercy in the flesh and just as if we never sinned, God left His mark on this earth, a purity of righteousness came here, a right living was modeled to us. A  humility, so pure that its essence of meekness was more powerful than any human being had ever before encountered. This is Christmas. Grace extended – Mercy gifted and unconditional love received.  This is what we pray for and hope for our family life, that we will act and love like this and do everything possible to keep peace and be ruled by peace in our family relationships. Listen Up to this 1 Minute encouragement video

“Automatically blaming ourselves when something goes wrong or thinking every that goes wrong is intended against us as individuals is called” personalizing” and it makes positive thinking very difficult. Winning and losing are team efforts. When was the last time you blamed yourself for something that wasn’t your fault. View the situation in a way that does not make you the villain. Do you get your feelings hurt a lot? Could it be that you are personalizing some situations?” Joyce Meyer

Be Navigated By God’s Light Of Truth

On Christmas Day our past was reckoned with, the darkness of our hearts were shattered. (When they saw the Star they rejoiced with great joy) The Star of wonder, the star of LIGHT born to bring the death to life, to shatter the darkness of a very long night, this is the Truest Christmas Gift that we ask for for our family, that we would be guided by the Light of Jesus in our relationships, navigated by His wisdom as we grow together as a family and extended family.

Living Out Of God’s Light Of Truth

The navigation of the Holy Spirit is light to our path as we navigate family relationships. Blame is something we should never allow in our lives or in our relationships. Be Lame is just that, we are lamed by human condition at times as we act imperfectly toward on another in reaction to perspectives that we don’t agree with. We blame each other. The Light of Truth would teach us to learn to agree to disagree and stay in our own lane and let God work truth into the situation. We don’t have to be right, He is right and He is able to make crooked places in our relationship straight with His truth that stands the tests of time. Patiently endure and wait on God for truth to be revealed.  God is the Fixer, we are not the fixer.

God Is The Fixer ~ We Are Not

We will never be perfect, our family members will never be perfect.  We pray as a family member we learn to yield to God’s Sovereignty, and stay positioned underneath His Rulership of Love. We need to yield to God and stop waiting for everyone in our family to be perfect, everything to be perfect before we can love our family members. We need to pray that we stop putting conditions on our family members and love them unconditionally. Father God help us in our family life to do life together with compassion, grace, and mercy and in our relationships that have past crooked places, learning to leave the transforming to God. Help us as a family member to stay in our own lane, let God be God. God is the Savior, we are not. God is the Fixer, we are not. God is the changer, we are not.  Listen Up to this 1 Minute Encouragement Video that is spot on: 

Even though your conscious is influenced by His Spirit, it is still a human component. It’s fallible. As we’re surround on all sides by a noisy, distracting, disorienting world, being clear on what God is saying to us is rarely a simple task. Don’t casually ask God for guidance. Discernment like this takes time. And patience. Priscilla Shirer

“Without the best of truth, you’re left with the burdensome responsibility of carrying the full weight of your own “breastplate” — your own “righteousness”. Instead of God fulfilling your requirements for righteousness, you’re on the hook for it. Instead of God making you acceptable in HIs sight through the sacrifice of His Son, you’re responsible for somehow proving yourself spotless and perfect in His sight. But with God’s truth strapped around your body, you’re relived of that pressure God’s Word — truth— reveals that righteousness has been given to you through faith in Christ as a free gift, freeing you from living with the weigh of all that sin on your shoulders.” Priscilla Shirer

The best thing you can do for strife in your family relationships is to pray to the One Who can make crooked places straight. This is not just a Christmas Family prayer devotional, it can be used all throughout the year to give you the hope, guidance and healing you need. Thank you for stopping into The Family Table on at The Bridegroom’s Café we hope you take a moment to subscribe to our site. We hope this spiritual meal gave you the passion you needed to spend time in prayer for your family. We hope you enjoyed the 1 Minute Encouragement Videos today. Make sure you subscribe to the Rumble Channel: https://rumble.com/c/KimberlyMac KimberlyMac here:  So you don’t miss one of them. God bless you, KimberlyMac