“I am the Lord; that is my name! I will not give my glory to anyone else, nor share my praise with carved idols.”                                                                         Isaiah 42:8

I’ve always loved Christmas! I love the holiday season for several reasons that I’ve posted before. While it’s easy to say that Christmas and Easter are times to celebrate Jesus birth and resurrection, the reality is that we tend to celebrate Santa, reindeer, presents, and so many other things over the month of December.

As I’ve grown as a Christian I always wondered whether I’d tell my kids one day about Santa Clause. Yesterday I listened to this message by Keith Moore concerning Christmas, Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, etc. and it answered so my questions I had. Keith goes over the history of Christmas and Easter – it’s very interesting.

My big takeaway: It’s fine to have fun with the traditions of these holidays, but when we start lying to our kids about Santa, and fail to give all of the glory to God with our hearts and lives, it is not ok.

The truth is, God should be a huge part of our lives every day of the year. Christmas and Easter are times where the whole world at least at some point, thinks about God.

As Christians, we need to make God and Jesus as big as we can during this season so instead of pointing others to gifts and tradition,  point them to the Creator of the Universe who longs to have relationship with them so much that He sent is Son to be born and die on a cross in order for us to have one.

In this season – give God all the glory He deserves and Point People to Him.

Have a great Christmas – remember why we celebrate!

If you know me, you know that I love Keith Moore’s ministry! In fact, other than my church, he is pretty much my only source of spiritual food. Honestly, I can’t find much better in the body of Christ today. You’ll find the majority of people at my church listening to Brother Keith on a consistent basis. Keith was one of Kenneth Hagin’s right hand men for 20+ years before he launched his own ministry.

Website: www.moorelifeministries.com

Free Downloads: Keith offers ALL of his sermons online for free download…Unbelievable!!!

Here are some of my favorite series that I recommend listening to… You can also browse the thousands of other sermons available.

• Faith and Patience (Soooo good!)
• The Truth about Temptation
• The Place of Prosperity
• Diligence
• Keeping the Love Command
• Without a Doubt
• Wisdom
• Free from All Fears
• Qualifying for God’s Best
• The Significance of Saying
• In Your Control
• Rules of Reaping
• Thanksgiving Victory

I hope that once you start listening to some of these messages that it will skyrocket your growth spiritually and you’ll find yourself in an entirely new place in a few months and years! Enjoy!

O man! Imparation was amazing! Every year our church has an Impartation conference. The guest speakers this year were Duane Sheriff, Doug Jones, and Keith Moore. All three speakers give away all of their messages for free on their website, and Duane and Keith give away free CD’s for all of their messages. I highly recommend you take advantage of those resources. To hear the messages from the Impartation Conference – Click here.

Usually I’d just go over the highlights of my notes with you, but I don’t have them on me right now, and I’d rather just share the things that stuck with me in my heart. So here you go:

• “If you never have abundance, how can God use you?” – Keith Moore

• “It’s not what you have, it’s how you got it.” -Keith Moore

• “Your prosperity will stop where your preparation ends.” – Keith Moore

• “Where knowledge stops, faith stops.” – Doug Jones

• “Once our beliefs are obtained, they must be maintained.” – Doug Jones

• “Faith comes by hearing and accepting what you hear as truth.” -Doug Jones

• “If a subject is difficult, you’re not close enough to the truth.” – Doug Jones

Those were some of the highlight statements… I guess if I had to say what I took away and that I’ll apply from the conference it’d be this:

I need to have scriptures for everything I’m believing God for and the more scriptures I have, the better. I need to make my own confessions based on the truths that God has established in MY heart.

God wants me to increase and have abundance so I can be a blessing to everyone around me. It’s God’s will that not one person in our church should lack! Dream big, believe big, sow big, reap big. I need to get used to having an abundance and give all the glory to God.

It was an amazing conference… It would take me all day to write everything that I learned and want to apply… You need to go and listen to the podcasts right now!