Join me in “spending” whatever needs to be “laid out or laid down” for God to find in me another “child of Christmas.” I want the willingness of His only begotten Son—a willing readiness to go, to love, to serve, to give and to care for human need and brokenness—to be replicated in me.
Do you feel it with me? I believe you do … and accordingly, let me urge you to join me in this prayer reflecting a childlike response to the Father’s search for those who will “spend as He spent” for Christmas:
Father, I am Your child—created by Your hand, designed for delight and desirable destiny, and immensely loved and restored through Your Son Jesus, Your first Christmas Child.
Now, dear Father, I’m asking you to make me a child after Your own heart, this Christmas and beyond it. As I bow now, with humility and gratitude, and with the joy born in me which springs from your gift to us in Jesus, I pray: Help me pay the price of becoming truly childlike at Christ-like dimensions of trust and self-giving. Help me lay down my all, Lord, that the Child of Christmas be multiplied in me … and thereby You gain a harvest of children at this Christmastime, and for seasons to come.
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Dear one, put your “Amen” on that prayer along with mine, would you? Let’s move into this season with the spirit of childlikeness, manifesting in ways that cause our Father and His Child, Jesus, to see the reward of their investment multiplied in us—the “children of Christmas.”
