Positive Daily Inspiration – December 24, 2023 – LOVE- 4th Week of Advent on our Journey Toward Christmas

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LOVE- 4th Week of Advent on our Journey Toward Christmas

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“No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.”
1 John 4:12

LOVE is a complicated word, a word that is often misused and misunderstood. In these verses we see a true picture of what love is, WHO love is, and how we should express love to others.

The Greek language has multiple words that mean “love.” Those words are specific enough to express the way you might love ice cream, the way you love your friends, or a general love for all mankind. In this Daily Inspiration, anytime you see “love” it is from the Greek “agape”. This word means an unconditional love that transcends and persists regardless of circumstance. That’s a great big love and very good news for us.

Look at how God demonstrates His love, His agape, for us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is amazing! God loved us not because of who we are, what we’ve accomplished, or what we have to offer. Quite the opposite, in fact. God loved us because LOVE is who GOD is.

John writes that because God loved us, we are to love one another. We are empowered by God Himself to live out this kind of love. His love sets us free to love others!

As we’re closing, it’s important to note one more thing (and this isn’t a small thing): this isn’t a love that comes and goes. The love that God demonstrates toward us isn’t dependent on us working to make God love us. There is nothing you can do to make God love you more than He does right now, and there is nothing you can do to make God love you less than He does right now. What an incredibly freeing thought!

This Christmas Eve let us remember and celebrate the UNCONDITIONAL LOVE of our great God.

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIGHTING THE ADVENT CANDLE:

Choose a family member or yourself to first light the first candle for Hope/Faith (purple candle) , the second candle for Peace (purple candle), the third candle for Joy (pink Candle), and the 4th candle for Love (purple candle) from the Christ Candle (white candle).

SAY:

“We light this first candle of advent representing Hope/Faith, the second candle for peace, the third candle for joy, and the fourth candle for love. Love is more than a feeling, it’s a commitment. God is LOVE. And Love has come to us and for us. This is love … not that we have loved God, but he has loved us with an everlasting love through Jesus. Love has come into my life.”

PRAYER:

I decree with undoubting faith and acceptance:

Dear God, I pray to give greater expression of Your love in all of my relationships this Christmas Eve.

Your love reveals the way for me to have harmonious relationships in my life.

I choose to be an expression of Your love to everyone I meet and base all of my words and actions, beginning today, following You, on the standard of Your love.

Dear God, I accept the gift of Your love.
May it come forth from You, through me, in an inexhaustible way.
I bathe my human mind with Your love, and I pray that my life is changed and enriched with Your love.

Through my willingness to allow it to occur, I give You my human mind, God, and I infuse my human mind with Your Divine Mind.

Flood my human mind, dear God, and every thought within it, with Your pure love.
I pray that people all around me begin to notice the changes taking place in me.
No longer are they dealing with the old me, my outer face, or my old personality.
They are attracted to me because I am God-love in manifestation. I pray that all people become my friends.

Because I am one with You, God, I am enriched by Divine love.

I am a spiritual, loving being, guided by Your CHRIST light and love.

And so, it is. In Jesus Christ’s name, Amen

HAVE A BLESSED CHRISTMAS EVE!

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Positive Daily Prayer:

SANTA’S PRAYER ON CHRISTMAS EVE by Warren D. Jennings

The sleigh was all packed, the reindeer were fed,
But Santa still knelt by the side of the bed.

“Dear God”, he prayed “Be with me tonight.
There’s much work to do and my schedule is tight.

I must jump in my sleigh and streak through the sky,
Knowing full well that reindeer can’t fly.

I will visit each household before the first light.
I’ll cover the world and all in one night.

With sleigh bells a-ringing; I’ll land on each roof,
Amid the soft clatter of each little hoof.

To get in the house is the difficult part,
So I’ll slide down the chimney of each child’s heart.

My sack will hold toys to grant all their wishes,
The supply will be endless like the loaves and the fishes.

I will fill all the stockings and not leave a track.
I’ll eat every cookie that is left for my snack.

I can do all these things Lord, only through You,
I just need your blessing, then it’s easy to do.

All this is to honor the birth of the One,
That was sent to teach us, Your most Holy Son.

So to all my friends, least your glory I rob,
Please Lord, remind me who gave me this job.

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION:

The light of God surrounds me and comes through me to touch all with the spirit of Christmas.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE:

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”
Roy L. Smith

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