It is the final day of our 5th annual 12 Days of Christmas.
Oh how I have loved featuring just a few of my Proverbs 31 sisters here each day.
Even though this is the last day, remember that you can comment on all 12 posts until midnight EST Sunday. One grand prize winner will be chosen who comments on all 12 posts. (prize show below)
Up today, the fabulous Speaker Services Coordinator
Carrying a Gift to the Throne
When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
Matthew 2:10-11
Merry Christmas to all of Karen Ehman’s bloggers! I am Karen’s friend Sheila. (I adore her so! Don’t you?) I work on staff at Proverbs 31 and am blessed beyond measure.
I love Christmas. My heart is happy-happy-happy when I hear Christmas music especially songs from the “olden days” by Bing Cosby and Andy Williams. IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEARRRRRR!
The song “Mary Did You Know” brings me to tears and to my knees ever year. I savor the smell of our Christmas tree and the sound of cutting wrapping paper to wrap a gift I know will thrill the receiver’s heart! Many memories and family Christmas traditions are treasured in my heart always and forever.
My favorite Christmas memory happened during Praise and Worship at our Christmas Eve service one year. The worship leader said to our congregation, “Let’s just close our eyes, worship, and wait on God’s presence.” My husband and I stood with our two little angels (Brittany and Stevie) to do just that. Wait on God’s presence.
With my eyes closed and my heart focused on the goodness of God, we were entering worship, when I was interrupted by a tug on my shirt.
I opened one eye and looked down at one of my little angels. Stevie wanted to whisper something in my ear. I bent down to listen, as he spoke in the softest loudest whisper he could muster up, “Mom! Mom! When is God coming with all the presents?” Out of the mouth of babes! (Psalm 8:2)
My answer to my little angel that sweet Christmas Eve was that God was on His way.
God is the ultimate gift giver.
He gave His only Son that we might live.
He continues to give by answering prayers and the deepest cries of hearts exceedingly and abundantly with His grace, mercy, love, and goodness.
And what you do not see today, know God’s provision is on its way, because God is the giver of all good things. He loves and gives well.
He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all- how will he not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?
Romans 8:32
Every good and perfect gift is from above.
James 1:17
Have you ever wondered what present you could give back? This Christmas walk into the throne room of God’s presence and gift him with the gift of loving others well.
Love Anyway.
Give Big.
Forgive.
Give Grace.
Give Time.
Give Words of Life!
When you love His children, you gift Him. Just wrap a note in a beautifully wrapped box gifting God that you will love others well this year.
Will you do that? Oh, how His heart will be thrilled! O Come Let Us Adore Him!
Blessings and Loveeeee to you all and Merry, Merry Christmas from Proverbs 31,
Sheila
P.S Oh, and as for my little Stevie, he opened a few presents the next morning that thrilled his heart! I thank God for that provision and the privilege to love him.
Love Big!
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Now for Sheila’s giveaway: Comment what you are going to “gift” Jesus this Christmas and qualify to win the giveaway of both books by Elevation Church’s Pastor Steven Furtick Greater and Sun Stand Still and a bouquet of Candy Canes!
Remember, you have until Sunday midnight EST December 16th to comment on all the posts. One grand prize winner will be chosen from among the gals who post on all 12 days! The grand prize is:
A unique advent candle display depicting Bethlehem, Mary and Jesus, with votive holders and candles nestled inside. A $50 retail value. And, along with it, a copy of my new book LET. IT. GO. How to Stop Running the Show & Start Walking in Faith.
I want to be more consistent with spending time with Him. I start out the year doing pretty well but as time goes on I allow life to get in the way.
I’ll be giving more of time this year to being a better servant for His Kingdom.
I’m going to gift God with me this year, with my family and my everything. I will put Him Front and center of my life!!!
Time
Focusing on personal worship.
My gift to Jesus this Christmas and into 2013 will be the gift of prayer.
Have a very Merry Christmas everyone
My gift to Jesus to to give him the power over my family. I like to try to control everything within my power and sometime you just have to say ok Jesus you have this one. So my gift this year is to trust always.
Trust. Believe
Excellent She -She!! I love your ideas for Christmas gifts… “Love anyway…” so beautiful. Thank you for sharing your amazing heart!
Loveeeeeeeeeeeee you!
Boldness in my witness and increased time spent in personal study.
Spend more time with Him thru study, devotions & prayer.
Quiet time!!
Sharing the true meaning of Christmas with my three kids. I want them to understand that this time is not about what I get…It is about what I can give…
My gift is letting go and trusting him in all the areas of my life, abandoning fear and worry and breaking free of all those things that are keeping me in bondage!
Even if I’m not chosen, could you tell me where to get that advent wreath? that’s amazing!
I am going to gift him more of my attention that he so deserves. I can not think of a better gift to the both of us
Merry CHRISTmas!
Time willing to spend with others, praying with them, helping them through their struggles!!
I am going to give God more of my time this year.
More of my time.
MYSELF AND TRUSTING HIM MORE. MORE PRAISE HAVE A BLESSED DAY
Devotion time
More of my time and more of my contentment in His plan.
I am going to give my full attention. God should not be an afterthought, but the center of my life, and I want to get much better about that.
I’m going to gift God more of me, in HIS word, HIS service and witnessing to the wonderful gift of HIS son.
God Bless you and have a Merry CHRISTmas!
I’m going to gift him “the gift of gratefulness”.
More time in prayer and being more loving and giving and walking the way He wants me to!
I mean “Him”.
I am going to ‘gift’ Jesus by being more consistent in my time spent in the Word. Not just reading it, but studying and finding its application for my life.
Prayer.
Trust and believe even when His timing is not mine. I know He makes no mistakes!!
MY TIME!!! I let so many other things and people crwod out my tiem with God, it is just plain crazy! I would not be anything without HIM!
forgiveness…to my self and to others.
Truting Him more and to let Him control my life and not me control it.
praise
More focusing on Him.
Trusting Him. Always. Even when I don’t see Him working. I know in my head and heart that He IS always working, I’ve just been having a hard time living that out.
ask for grace and strength to be more like Him…provide sacrificial, grace-giving real love to others! xoxo
I plan to “gift” more praise to Him and a better attitude in general. I wish to seek out opportunities to perform random acts of kindness and compliment more.
Forgiveness from the past and myself.
My gift is having Faith. I want to Trust in the Lord with all my heart. Let go and let him direct my parth.
More of myself.
Patience and kindness and love for others (especially those under my own roof). I also want to give myself completely to what He’s calling me to do and to step out of my comfort zone to do what it is that I believe He’s tugging at my heart to do!!
My time and my self
My gift to Him will be time. Time in His word and in conversation with Him,
I will be more content and thankful. I will be more gracefilled and accept others where they are and stop trying to change them and let the Almighty King work His glorious wonders.
This year we are being very intentional in teaching our littlest the true meaning of Christmas (or oldest at 7 will already write you a dissertation) and showing kindness to our neighbors.
My time
More time spent with him this coming year and trying to remove the distractions in my life.
A thankful heart in difficult circumstances as well as good days.
I will give Him my time!
Obedience.
Time!
Forgiveness – that’s my gift
Time – time for Him and time for the precious children He has gifted to me.
I want to gift God with my “to-do” list. Having a controlling personality, I like to do things my way and in my time. I want to turn my to do list over to God and let him decide what I need to get done with. And throughout this process, I will be praying for Him to grant me peace that I’m doing His will, so I won’t be so uptight about not checking off everything on my to do list.
try to be more like him….
I have a hard time at christmas when people say “Happy Holidays” or write {“x-mas on things) That is totally taking Christ out of Christmas…Yesterday I was at Walmart and they were extremely busy and carts were running into carts, well I decided to smile and say Merry Christmas to everyone who passed me or ran into my cart. I had very mixed reactions, some looked and then kept on going, some didnt look and when I said it,and some even guys looked at with a blank look and said Merry Christmas,,,,. We need to shout “Joy to the World the Lord has come let earth recieve her King” God Bless you all!!!
More time…
I am gifting Jesus my temper.
More time in prayer.
Praying more regularly with my kids, for their needs and what is on their hearts… We do this already, but I would like this to be done more often, before there is big events or issues… More quiet time for myself with Jesus.
My gift is to come and lay my addiction down and look to him to fulfill my needs and not food. I’ve finally realized food is a gift from God and not to be idolized as I have done it in the past. When I’m happy, sad, any emotion it was time to eat but now it is time to spend with Him in his word and feed my spirit so that I never have to hunger again. Hope all of you have a wonderful Christmas!
I am going to gift back my time. I don’t spend enough intamite time with the Lord. I get so caught up in my daily agenda that I don’t make time for Him.
I am going to do just what you said and Gift to God love for others, even the ones that seem unlovable at times.
I am going to gift my best to the least of these- though it could never come close to what He {and they} deserve…He can take my mite and bring abundance…Merry Christmas and thank you!!
Ladies, I have so enjoyed The Twelve Days of Christmas. What fun to open my email each day, read some awesome words from one of the P31 Ladies, and reply on Karen’s blog. Thank-you for allowing me to be a part of this. I hope that this year I can focus on Jesus more than I usually do. I am away from home and the only Christmas decoration is a box of kleenex. While I will make it home right before Christmas, this time is allowing me the opportunity to focus on the birth of Jesus rather than the baking, the parties, and the decorations. May God bless you all!
Scripture memorization
more time alone with Him!
Definitely more time in His word.
Merry Christmas!!
Our family is going to go caroling this year (an event my 12 yr old planned & put together) with lots of members from our church (this number continues to grow & grow). We are going to bless our neighbors with the spirit of Christmas & then our family is blessing the people that go caroling with us by having goodies afterwards & starting a new tradition. There has been so many families/people that has told us how they’ve wanted to go caroling & how this event being scheduled has been a blessing. We’ve had so many respond to wanting to join in on the fun! It warms my heart to know my 12 yr old daughter had a part in this…I just pray it will be a blessing to other as it’s been to me!
Serving others
More time.
I want to give Him more of my time. He seems to be the most patient and quiet and everybody else is loud and demanding…and unfortunately it is Him that gets left out. ;(
I *love* Sheila’s words of “he gift of loving others well. ~ Love Anyway ~ Give Big ~ Forgive ~ Give Grace” This is my prayer, that the Lord would make me more mindful of these things over the next year ~ loving others well. I don’t think I show that like I should, it’s more of an inward thing for me, but I am praying the Lord would show me “outward” ways to demonstrate His love through me for others!
I keep coming back and reading todays post. Thank you! It has touched my heart in an amazing way.
Waking up and thanking God for each day is how I want to honor Him. Thinking of God first before I even step out of my bed will help me to focus on what truly matters for that day.
I am giving Jesus my life to do whatever He wants to do with me!! I have already accepted Him as my Savior when I was 7 and He has never let me down yet!!!! He truly is the reason for the season.
I am going to “gift” giving. I would like to help out more wherever I can; time, money, a listening ear, etc. 2013 is going to be my year of giving!
Time – praying and devotions.
I’m hoping to better instill service and giving to others within my child’s heart this year. WE might just start with him choosing one of his gifts to give to another child this year.
Reading His word more.
monk5 at charter dot net
thanking Him for His gifts
I’m going to gift Jesus with a little more of my time…just Him and me! Sounds so meager, but I know this brings our God joy.
Lovely post, Sheila. I remember weeping when I first heard “Mary Did You Know.” Here’s my favorite Christmas memory http://www.circlesoffaith.org/blogs/2012/12/11/the-surprise-of-the-simply-sacred-at-christmas.html.
Blessings!
These last few weeks, the Lord has been saying, “Follow me!” My gift back to Him is to follow wherever He may lead knowing that He is always the God who answers, who sees, who saves. He will never leave me or forsake me and will walk with me wherever He leads me or sends me.
My gift to Jesus, is to spend more time with Him in His Word. To help others more and be open to hear and see needs of others.
I am going to give God my family and watch Him work in their lives according to His plan for each of them. I try too hard to figure out what is best for them and steer them in that direction. I know that I can’t see the big picture and don’t want to interfere with all the blessings He has in store for us, if we will only trust and wait on his timing.
I am going to gift Jesus with more time in prayer and being a better witness and always having a grateful heart for all he has done in my life.
my time and my complete devotion
This year we are going to “gift” a meal to our new principal, and our DCE, and I think our computer teacher and music director. All are single and we want to give them a night with a family and a home cooked meal.
I also now find myself gifting love and grace to a friend who just lost (Jesus called him home yesterday) the man she left her husband for. While I don’t agree with her choices, she is a child of God and is hurting. I know many who have walked away from her before his death. I pray that they may be there to comfort her. It’s a sad situation all around. I pray for God’s healing hand in the midst!
My gift to Jesus is my time. That not only during this busy time of year where it seems there’s just not enough hours in the day, but all year round I will make Him a priority in my day!!!
My gift to Jesus would be more time spent with Him. I tend to be very selfish with my time and i need to do much better sharing my time with Jesus after all were it not for Him i wouldn’t have any time at all. It’s time to stop being so selfish.
Forgiveness that can only take place without God’s help
Each year we place two special gifts under our tree. The first box contains the story of Christ’s birth from Luke – God’s gift to us. The second box contains a mirror – our gift to God (ourselves). Christmas morning we open the first box and read the Christmas story. Then we open the second box and discuss what God wants – US! This year I bought my son and I “the Story”, a 31 week study through the Bible that we will start after Christmas. My focus this season is to give God more time. As a single mom, time gets away from me quickly so giving more time to God is my small gift back to Jesus this year.
My gift To Jesus will be to pray for clear understanding of my next step in faith as my family moves across the country this coming year. What will I do to serve him in our new home town? And to make sure my family is also lifted in prayer every day.
my faith in Him
My thoughts this Christmas have been a little less embracing of the holiday season. I think I’m frustrated with the idea that “Jesus is the reason for the season”. He is the reason for life! We shouldn’t be focusing on Jesus’ birth only at Christmas. We need to live in grateful response to what He has done for us all year long. My gift to Him this Christmas is remembering to celebrate Him all year long.
I’m going to gift my time! Very excited!!
worship and prayer
forgiveness of my past and control of the present… I have to give more of me to HIM in order to give the gift of love to others. I have to learn to trust HIM and give all to HIM… which means the gift of my time would me necessary as well! I have a big CHRISTMAS list this year!!!
My gift to Jesus this year is myself. I don’t have much $$ and my talents are already being used!
God has been working on me to forgive my ex-husband……I have carried the resentment for so long I don’t know life without that feeling. So my gift to Jesus this year will be to FORGIVE. I’ve had a hard time understanding forgiving without the person asking to be forgiven……so could I ask everyone to pray for me to be able to forgive. It is time……and it’s hard, it’s very, very hard.
I am praying for you Barb! I had to finally decide to forgive my abusive father, and you know what?? After I forgave, it was like a HUGE LOAD was lifted off my shoulders! The feeling was fantastic!
Love anyway…especially with some of the class we teach on Wed pm!
Precious time!
i want to be more consistent with quiet times.
More of my time.
What am I going to “gift” Jesus this year? Hmmm, what shall I choose? I think I will give him my TRUST, every day in every way. I worry way too much, and know that that is an indication that I don’t trust Jesus to take care of my needs. So I am promising him that I will trust him.
Trust….that He can work thru some difficult circumstance.
My faith and time in studying his words and living them. Showing his love and grace to not only my girls but to those around me.
I will love others well in the comng year, love them anyway.
I am letting it go. I have taken the challenge and I am letting others make all the decisions. This is quite the feat because I am a control freak. It is okay if things are not like I would do them. I am going to just enjoy this Christmas and not stress!
Trust I “know” He has and always will provide & that He has a plan for my life & truly wants what is best for me. However, I still try to figuer out everything on my own, & worry over things I have no control over.
To rest more in trust and faith in Jesus.
Love Jesus by loving on people.
To give Him more of my time through studying scripture and prayer.
I’d like to give Him my time for worship and to draw on His strength to love on my family.
more of HIm!
I am going to gift him with reading his word on a daily basis and reading through the bible this next year.
More time with Him.
Service!
I’m trying to focus more on Him and Love others! Trying to be careful of my attitudes during this busy time.
More time.
Contentment with what He has provided.
Definitely more time in prayer and adoration to Him.
I am going to gift Jesus by extending grace to all.
FORgiveness. I will forgive quickly as Christ forgave me. And to be a whole-hearted follower.
The promise of more time for Him.
Let God do HIS job.
My gift to God will be more of myself. I know that He adores me just the way I am, but I keep trying to make myself a “little better”, as if that would help!
devotion time and better obedience
Gift to God…faith and my life..Gift to others for God…time and love
To listen and obey.
I’m going to gift my time and listening ears to his Word so that I may know His plan for me.
Letting His Peace rule our house, instead of MY schedule and MY checklist!
Love others well this year and speak encouraging words to others.
Time.
To be more consistent in putting Him first in everything I do so I know I am making the right decision that will please Him. I need to look for His direction in all my decisions and not make any of them on my own. God wants to be a part of our life every minute of everyday because He loves us. I also want to spend more time in prayer and reading my Bible faithfully everyday.
Praise for all He has done.
trust
God has everything…what could he possibly want or need????
ME AND YOU!!! It has taken years for me to understand that God really just wants me. He wants my attention, my worship, my praise. If I give him ME then I will be in tune with whatever his spirit is directing me to do next.
I am going to try to do more things for people in His name because He prompts me and I follow through.
My heart
I will be giving time.
Making the decision daily to be obedient and surrender my will.
i need to give more grace-filled words
Me.
I’m going to work on giving Jesus more of my time. It’s been way too easy for me to put it off until later.
I will love His children more too!
Time and love.
Time
Quiet time and following His lead for my God-sized dream!
I am giving the gift of thanks for all the amazing blessings he has bestowed upon me and my family. Thank you for all of the wonderful posts!
i’d like to gift him with obedience in whatever way He asks, even if it seems to cost more than i’d “planned”. may i be faithful. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
That is the question I am pondering….the gift I give to Him should not be decided lightly ….I am before Him to get the answer. This gift is not like a New Years resolution that we so easily break.
My gift to him will be my heart.
MY ALL!
Kindness and compassion for a few of his children I’ve been struggling to show.
Merry Christmas
My obedience to His directions.
Love & Forgiveness
I plan on giving Jesus my heart and service for orphans and widows. To care and provide for them as he leads.
Giving praise and thanksgiving to Him all that he has done for me. Sharing encouraging words to others.
Time alone with Him, and love for others, even those who are sometimes hard to love.
My gift to Jesus will be my complete self. I am going to pray that He will use me for ANYTHING!
My focus.
My contentment. . . allowing myself to be content no matter what He allows to pass my path
The gift I want to give is more of myself devoted to studying His word…daily. He is a full time God and I should be a full time child….I also will be content to be where He puts me. I will give Him more of me…
Merry Christmas!
Smiles & Blessings,
Robin
Getting into a routine with more sleep. This way I am rested for him and my family. Right now I am living on fumes and I know that is not honoring to Him.
Because of massive healthy challenges, God has used His miracles to teach me that I have much more study to do in order to teach others, The Word; Many more prayers to be uttered for others;. Time to serve others and tell them of God’s love and faithful promises.
Learning more of God’s word by reading and studying the Bible. Memorizing scriptures too
Time and an open heart to what he wants
I would like to gift him with more devotion by giving Him more time in the Word, authentic worship, and true service.
More time in prayer.
As the song which our choir will be singing goes “I’ll give him my heart”–again, and again and again.
My gift will be more focused prayer time with God!
Always, I think of really giving my heart to Him more through quiet time spent with Him…that is just a given that I just never seem to give enough of, but always worth improving. But this coming year, I really desire to serve others in His name with my children. That is something I have been praying about and looking at ways that we can serve as a family.
My gift is to spend more time with Jesus and be a better role model for my kids.
We’re taking blankets, clothing, and toys to a shelter next week.
I’d like to spend more time with my daughter sharing and studying God’s word together.
Read the Bible daily and pray for others more!!
After today’s tragedy, another big reminder for me to give words of life to my kindergarten class of children that God has placed in my care.
More time and attention
O I think day 12 is my favorite post in this series!! I’ve heard the word love on many occasions throughout the year, not fully understanding its meaning. God is so Patient and Gentle. He has given me bits and pieces of information with such awesome timing! My response or gift to Him is obedience to love anyway. I am so excited!! Thank you for this post!!
I’ll give Jesus my heart and more time spent with Him. I always enjoy spending time with my friends and Jesus is my friend who always has time for me.
Being more willing to receive his gift of grace and extending grace to others.
My gift to Jesus this year is to shine for him in my relationships with others.
Grace as big as that which has been given to me.
my gift to God this year is to be in a state of thankfulness and try to quiet my constant competing mind and stop the negative feelings of not being the best at everything and trying to love with all my heart the way my God and Saviour loves me ….
Time
Consistent quiet time
I want to give him more of my time and to show others more of his love through me.
I want to be spend more time in God’s word this coming year. And keep my focus on him and trust him!
“love anyway”
Spending more time with him in daily devotions and really work on my sharing His precious love with others.
Spending more time so His love to others.
my problems, concerns and fears – it doesn’t sound like a great gift but He asks us to cast our cares upon Him so instead of carrying them myself, I choose to give them to Him!
Have you read the Sparkle Box?!?!? I am our children’s ministries outreach coordinator and so we have been giving our hearts out since September…when I started and are able to focus on Matthew 25 and giving unto the least of these you have given unto me! We have three ministries that we have given cans of fruit to (they said they always get vegetables but not fruit!, lots of bags of pasta and rice, then all kinds of toiletries and this month boxed meals! What a joy!
I am choosing to give Jesus the best me I can be, with his love wrapped around me and guiding me. I am trying to continue to be bolder in my faith and be more Christ-like. And the days where I am a complete failure.. I ask for forgiveness and a new day to do better. This site has been a blessing this Christmas season. It has brought calm, peace and a focus on God’s best for us.
Thanks Proverb’s 31 gals! So glad I found you this year. And it was all because I went to Renee Swope’s visit to Tampa. Blessings to all the women who write their replies. May we all give our best to Jesus. 
giving him my ALL….the cares of this world (which can be SO scary at times)….my praise and thanks for ALL He has done for me….more patience and tolerance for those in my sphere of influence….a newly fueled desire to change and grow and become what Christ created me to be! (I could go on, but that’s enough for now)
I want to continue to grow in listening for the quiet voice of God, and then act on what He says to me. I’m just so amazed at how God speaks to us, but we have to be listening or we don’t recognize Him.
Love anyway – loving my children even though they can really frustrate and disappoint me.
Love and share anyway – even when it hurts to tell your loved one what they need to know
Patience and thinking before I speak
Time, trust and praise
I need to pause more! I need to also be more gentle, in my words, actions, thoughts. To do both I have to be intentional.
time
I want to give the gift of love. I want to see others as Jesus sees them. Sometimes I’m quick to judge and that’s not fair. I don’t always know what others are going through or what has happened in there life so I need to stop myself before I think or say something I shouldn’t.
Trying to show more of His Love to others! More trust in Him! More Praise and Worship to Him! And growing my Faith in Him more! And especially Thankfulness for every blessing in my life!!
My gift to Him is the continued training and love I give my children. Trying my best to raise them to be his followers.
Be more thankful. I get focused on one or two negatives and forget all of the blessings God has given me.
Time in His word and in His presence.
Thankful heart
More of my time.
Gifts for the poor
I plan on giving more of my attention. I have definitely been very distracted with busyness rather than spending the time I should with God. I am also giving kindness and attention to others. So many people have come and gone in my life from family members to friends to people I know through my work. I want to share kindness and appreciation to others. I know that Jesus loves each and every one so much. I think it is best to gift him by loving others as much as I can.
deepening my prayer life
I like your advice of loving others more. That’s what I want to give Jesus because of His great love for me and everyone! With His guidance and direction, I want to couple that love with action. And I definitely want to give Him more of my time!
I am going to give more time in prayer and studying His word.
I am trying to worship and bring praise to Him all the time and in every situation.
I will give time
What an awesome devotion! I am going to share it with my Bible study class this morning.Thank you!
I’d like to give more grace to others and to spend more time with God in his word and in prayer.
My gift is acceptance and wisdom towards others especially my family.
I am giving God more time spent with my family to bring them closer to Him.
In the New Year, I want to be even more intentional about seeking His presence. So thankful for an extended Christmas break where I can make that more of a habit!
I am giving my obedience, forgiveness and time.
I want to offer jesus my heart, soul,mind and strength in increasing measure in 2013.
Mariel
I want to begin helping to disciple (discovering Christ in the Word) a younger woman….and by His grace be discipled by an older woman…to grow closer to Him!
Definitely extending more grace and loving others well.
I will give God a gift of my time. Every morning before my day gets hectic, I will seek God with in His word.
reading my Bible more
I’m going to “gift” Jesus more of my time.
We’re working on love this year.
Giving thanks for all things.
Patience, understanding, and love.
Gifting time and prayer to my church family.
To “Be Still” and listen to Him.
-Colleen G.
Focus. Focus my time and attention to Him and His Word.
Love and obedience to our Lord
Teach me patience & humility.
Time. More time just me and Him
This year i will gift Jesus to others more than ever before… because He was born in me Its my responsiblity to share that gift with everyone I meet… and thats what I am going to give Jesus …. I’m giving Him to everyone… in love, in deed, in action…. I’m excited…
I am going to gift to Jesus this Christmas the commitment to spend daily time EVERYDAY day in His word, no matter how hectic things are or what ever else is going on in the day
My gift to Jesus this year is more time with Him.
time with elderly parents
Focus on people, not things.
I want to give him my time. I know more things will fall into place if I do.
Blessings,
Janet
The gift of time !!!
I want to gift him intentional outreach to my neighbors and the boldness and confidence to be obedient.
beautiful
Love to all in my path.