Luke 2:11,12
“Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
Father,
My faithful one, I love you -you are Mine. Come, I have a word for you today.
I love you too Father. What word do you have for me today Lord?
That I love you and I am always faithful to my word. You are Mine and I will take great care of you.
Father, I believe you and I trust you that you are always faithful to your word and that you are taking great care of me. I’m resting in you about this. Thank-you for being so near to me.
Reflection:
Wow, today’s Christmas Eve.. where does the time go? I don’t have a lot of time to write today because I need to make cinnamon buns or white sugar cookies and wrap a few more gifts before heading out to our church service. The kids normally unwrap one gift the night before Christmas so we’ll be doing that tonight. I woke up early in the night last night with the words, “countries of food,” like we’d say “plates of food” except it was countries of food. I don’t know what the Lord means by that and will need to pursue him for the meaning. I also woke up at 5:17 and had heard something like a poem that had two sentences. I got up right away to write it down but even then I couldn’t remember the first part of it, but the second part was, “…remember that if something is never covered, it will always be exposed.” Again, I don’t know the exact meaning and I’m leaning into the Lord about it. In the dream I got last night I was sitting in a chair in the front row with a small group of people. One of my main pastors was standing in the front and had my Ipad, and was looking at it. I don’t remember if he was holding it or if it was resting on something like a pulpit. He was looking at one of my journal entries. Then there must have been a play “arrow” button because one of my recordings started to play. I was still sitting, enjoying his presentation when all of a sudden I realized that what everyone was listening to was me, and so I felt like I needed to help him if he didn’t understand something (because he was using my ipad). So I quickly got up and walked the few steps to where he was standing and I looked at my ipad and saw that he had Scrivener open, where I do all my writing before posting it onto my website. I saw that he had a date opened with the writing of that day displayed, which took up most of the screen space, and saw on the right side all the other days of that month there too, like it normally is when I write. I also saw at the bottom somewhere an arrow button that was the play button, to play one of my recordings. In waking life Scrivener doesn’t have this option. Then I thought that he’s fine, he knows what he’s doing and didn’t need my help, and I walked back to my seat and sat down. Then I was watching him again and saw that as he was reading or talking about what I had written, I noticed his eyes, that he was looking quickly at the side where I had more things written, to see if anything else stood out that the Lord wanted him to see. I thought to myself that I totally don’t mind if he would have my iPad so he could read whatever he’d like so that together we could discern what the Lord wanted for us to see and talk about -to be led by God together. In waking life I’m always trying to discern what the Lord is saying to me through my dreams and through spending time in the Bible and as I listen to his voice. Merry Christmas!!!