"Exercising Your Faith with Focus at Christmas Time"

Christmas time is filled with the celebration through the regarding the birth of Jesus, baby Jesus the coming of the Messiah in the Christian faith. Exercising your Faith is active. Action is intended to describe compassion, grace, mercy and good will to mankind. The characteristics related during this season and year-round allows for recognizing the coming of the Lord and having a remembrance of what it represents.

Compassion regards the coming of a Savior. John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believes in Hid should not parish, but have everlasting life.

God offers us grace, seeing a need that we need a Savior to save us from our sin and posture of sin. In God having sent His son Jesus out of compassion, we see how His grace is at work.

Mercy is often what is needed during times like these. We arrive at the end of the year hoping our faith focus has carried us throughout the year, and yet something may create personal challenges or challenges in response to others. In response to merciful prayer, forgiveness along with thoughts of mercy, inclusive to extending forgiveness as a regard to seeing how God will allow personal response to a setting. This depends on how forgiveness is indicated. Compassion, grace and mercy is present here.

Good cheer, hopefully moves our hearts as God teaches us through caring, service, and giving to Him first and then to others. Our hope in faith focus during the coming of Jesus is to acknowledge the arrival of the Messiah and to relate our salvation experience to how He desires for us to understand His ultimate coming and sacrifice, in a personal relationship with Him. "He, a Savior is born." As you exercise your faith focus on the true meaning of what your relationship with Jesus means, consider how you view your relationship with Jesus. As you view the birth of Christ, know that He is Lord and a God that loves.

Acknowledging the time of year that the gospels in the Bible, speaks to a coming of a Savior is Good News to Christians. Take the time to enjoy the celebrations that pertain to your faith. We know our faith is daily not just this time of year, but heightening Jesus at this time of year allows us the time to refocus our faith. If events and tv programs do not assist, plan a scripture, devotion, or personal movie or film expressing God's message at this Christmas celebratory time.

As we look at the manger let us remember and assess how God wants us to draw near to Him as He draws near to us (you).

Agape love of God,

Kim Hatton @KHMInitries

December 19. 2023