It is Christmas time again -- one of my favorite holidays!  We went to a local tree farm yesterday to get the annual tree.  The weather couldn't have been better -- warm, about 65 degrees and sunny.  The sky was so blue.  The farm was filled with people:  families with children, young and old alike, many with the family dog, tromping through the fields of perfect Frazier firs, looking for THE perfect tree.  Our daughter and her husband went with us, with their dog, Luci.  It didn't take long to find two beautiful, fragrant trees and head home to decorate.  Christmas is the time for family and friends to gather, for exchanging gifts, for eating turkey, and riding through neighborhoods to look at dazzling Christmas lights.  It is a wonderful time of year.  But as we embrace the coming season, let's always remember why we celebrate Christmas.  "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever should believe on Him would not perish, but have everlasting life."  Jesus is the Gift the Father gave to ransom mankind back to Himself.  The value of anything is the price paid for it.  He paid for you with His life.  What great value you have to the Father!   

How BIG is your God?  Our God is G R E A T!  It is so exciting to hear the testimonies from those in our fellowship who are being JESUS in this world!  People are testifying every week of laying hands on the sick and seeing them healed! They are sharing the goodness of God with friends and family and those in the marketplace.   We are seeing people healed each week in our services and they are testifying how great it is to be pain free - GLORY TO GOD!  We've heard testimonies from our people who have asked God for jobs and are receiving them.  Several have new jobs and one lady received notice she didn't get the job she applied for, but the company is CREATING a job JUST FOR HER!  It is SO WONDERFUL to serve the living God.  Truly our God is an AWESOME God!   We have SO MUCH to be thankful for!  Bless the Lord O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy Name!  For He is great and greatly to be praised!  Happy Thanksgiving!   

Found this picture on facebook and had to post it -- this is God's heart for all children.

We serve a mighty, powerful, awesome God!  Every week we are getting reports of the wonderful works of our wonderful Father.  Houses sold, employment opportunities, bodies once wracked with pain, now pain free, lost pets returned -- there is no END to HOW GOOD OUR GOD IS!  As we embrace His Word as Truth and put that Word in our mouths, causing us to come into agreement with Him, there is NO SITUATION, NO CIRCUMSTANCE, NO POWER IN HEAVEN OR EARTH that can stand against us.  "IF GOD BE FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US? -- He who spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him freely give us ALL THINGS?" (Romans 8:38)  God's hands are open to you -- He is not withholding ANY GOOD THING!  It is His good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.  Truly, WITH GOD, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.  Are all things possible to everyone?  No.  They are only possible to "him who believes".  So we have a choice to make -- are we going to live in doubt and unbelief?  Or are we going to make a quality decision to believe that whatever God said in the Bible is the truth?  "For we walk by FAITH and not by SIGHT" -- when we walk by sight, judging our situation based on what we feel or see, we are not walking by faith.  And "without faith, it is impossible to please God -- for those who come to Him must BELIEVE that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him" (Heb 11:6).  I'm a believer, how about you?