Unexpected Christmas Hero - Reflections

Embrace your Destiny and walk in His Grace - He is your Strength when you are weak, He lifts you up when you can't reach.....

Hello my friends, today I want to talk about a book I read over the Christmas break: 'Unexpected Christmas Hero' by Kathi Macias - what an inspiration this was. It's a story about a woman, who looses everything, her husband to cancer, her home and riches to her husband having made mistakes in his life, the subsequent struggle, to live life out on the streets, to find shelter during the nights, to keep herself and her two children fed somehow. My heart was breaking for her.....but rejoicing for her at the end of the story. As it has been for some time now, when I read, my heart often breaks for the main characters.....often God has a special message in the books I read for me.....so, my Spirit is always awake, to hear, what the Holy Spirit wants me to hear.....sometimes he puts people on my mind, telling me, that they are going through something similar, urging me to pray for them.....sometimes he heals my heart, when parts of the story resonate with my own. This time, I couldn't tell at first, what it was, that he was trying to tell me with this story - but all of the sudden it was clear.....

.....we are all homeless, until we find our way back home, into the loving arms of our father in Heaven. We all try to find shelter and try to be able to provide food for our families......struggling often to make ends meet. Yet our father in Heaven wants to be our provider, but we have to completely trust him - often times, when our circumstances are such as in the story, that we are living out in the streets in reality, this is most evident, but we're all in the same boat - even if we live in the biggest mansion with the most prestigious job.

We are all homeless, cause this is not our home, true security doesn't come until we know, that all the money we can make in our jobs, is also a provision from God - Every good gift comes from above. He owns everything, so he ultimately provides for all our needs. Yet we relish the false sense of being capable of doing it on our own. We simply are not - we cannot even set one foot for another, wasn't it for God creating us in such a way, that our body can do that. Therefore: the Glory belongs to him always, not just when it's most evident as it is in this story.

A couple of things that surfaced over the last 10 days - I won't go deeper into the circumstances, as doing that would expose other people, and that I cannot do - have shown me this truth being relevant at all times - and I must say, that since last Tuesday morning, I have been able to taste my father's amazing providence for me on a much much more personal and tangible level.....he made me realize, that in his strength, truly I can do all things, that he indeed will provide for all my needs (maybe not all my wants) - along with the promise, that all is possible, for him, who believes.

He holds our tomorrow and he has a plan - and all we ultimately have to do, is, to reaffirm our trust in him and believe, that he will do, what he promises in his word.

I know, that I could not live any other way any more - I hope, my friends, that you will trust him with all your heart, that he will provide for your needs. Aren't you far more precious than the Lilies in the fields and the birds in the sky??? He created you and he wants to share his entire kingdom with you - don't let the enemy trick you in believing otherwise. You are an heir to the throne, and you should walk as such - it's not, that you get what you deserve......you get what you accept. I have reason to believe, that he wants to bless you beyond, what you are willing to receive.

Open your heart to the riches, he has for you - don't allow yourself to be limited by your fears, worries our doubts. He wants to set you free and give you a life, you never ever dreamt could be yours. 

He is in control, he is the one to anoint and appoint, he is the one, to cancel debt and forgive sin - let his Grace wash over you, wave after wave - his storehouses never run dry. Trust him.

In Jesus' Name - Amen