Make Your List .... Check it Twice

This is the time of year when children write their letters to Santa of what they want for Christmas. They write those letters expecting to receive them under their Christmas tree on Christmas morning. They have an expectation and no one can tell them they won't get what they are asking for because they believe they will receive. Santa Claus is a person the world made up to replace God. He is the One who gives all gifts and He gives them freely to all who ask. If a parent knows how to give good gifts how much more is God able to give?

I challenge you today to sit down and make out a list of everything you want: things that you want physically, spiritually, financially, and personally ~ leave nothing out. When the list is complete you need to anoint it, pray over it, and then release everything on that list to the Lord. Come to Him just as your children would come to you with. When you write these things down believe that you receive them and wait expectantly for them. He will give all things to those who believe and expect them to be fulfilled.


God desires to show up, show off, and receive all of the glory! Children wake up Christmas morning, unwrap their gifts, and then brag about what they received to everyone. All of this for a person that was made up to replace our God. It is now time for God to be bragged upon, not some make believe person! He desires to do all things for each and every one of us - we just need to believe and trust in the One who is the giver of all life.