One Christmas my husband and I were to host our Sunday School class Christmas party. We decided that since we would be giving gifts to each other, why not try to present a gift to Jesus? We began looking up scriptures to see what kind of gift He would be pleased to receive. Some of the scriptures we found included these:

One morning last week, I read that God's name means more than a mark of identification; it stands for the character and reputation of Yahweh. That thought prompted me to set aside time thinking on His Name and worshiping using the names the prophet gave Jesus in Isaiah 9-"Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

When Doris Liew from Singapore attended the Come to the Fire conference, God increased her concern for her unsaved parents. She later emailed what happened after she moved back to Singapore.

In the Hebrew there is no special term for promise. Promise is simply "word." God's word is His promise. With God no more is needed. He is so powerful and so unchangeable that a word is enough. He speaks, and it is done. Those who marched around Jericho dared, on the authority of God's Word alone, to claim a promised victory when there were no signs of this victory being accomplished. 

When Christ makes His home within us, our response is a desire for Him to use us. I read a story* from China about the magnificent stately Bamboo who longed to be used by the King. One day the King had a job that he knew the stately Bamboo could do well.

The image of a cow chewing its cud is often used to describe the practice of meditation. First the cow goes out and gets some grass and then sits down and chews it awhile and then swallows it. A little later, the cow regurgitates its cud and chews some more, then swallows again. We can visualize the cow processing and reprocessing the food until it is fully digested! 

When Audine McChesney's husband became desperately ill with encephalitis, the doctor offered no hope of recovery. Someone encouraged Audine to praise God for his healing.