Setbacks, rough times, heartache, pain and disappointment does not pave the way for you to feel like you will have a wonderful Christmas. Those things also does not pave the way for you to even feel like wanting to be bothered and it probably does not get you in the Christmas Spirit.  When you think about it, it’s usually the problems that life throws at you that often spoils your mood, overwhelms you, and drains you of your life’s vital flow of energy. It doesn’t have to be that way. If you are sick and tired of going through the potholes that life slams at you out of now where, you probably need a change of heart. God is not only available to you to give you this change of heart, He is  also willing to refresh you, revive you and restore you with His love, His mercy, His peace and His grace. God wants to give you a heart like Jesus so that you can go on. God wants to give you a heart like Jesus so that you can learn to not sweat the small stuff and so that you will learn to bring all of your cares, your concerns and your heavy burdens and your heavy loads to God through prayer. This Christmas, God wants to do that for you, that is if you want it.

Anything is possible doing this very magical time of the year. If you’re willing to open yourself up to how God can and will work in your life, He will come right where you are and transform you and give you a heart like Jesus. An additional interesting thing about the birth of Jesus, His life, His journey, His miracles, His death, His burial and His resurrection is that Jesus learned early on to pace Himself to the rhythm of God’s flow and to have a heart for what mattered to God.  Jesus knew that because He was the son of God, He had to always be about His father’s business – Luke 2:49. Jesus knew that to be in God’s flow, He had to follow God’s agenda and not His own, because He was sent into the world for God’s purposes and not His own. You can have a heart like Jesus, if you do what Jesus did and if you surrender your life to God like Jesus did and become about God’s agenda for your life instead of your own. After all, you too were sent into the world for God’s purposes and not your own!

If what you are doing is repeatedly not working, perhaps it’s time to step outside of the box of what you are used to doing and try something different. Let God meet you right where you are and give you a change of heart that only He can give you this Christmas season. The birth of Jesus and all that He means to you as your personal Lord and Savior will come alive for you when God gives you a heart like Jesus! You will be able to sing Christmas carols with pleasure and delight rather than gloom and despair, God will renew your strength and you will run and you won’t grow weary and you will walk and you won’t faint – Isaiah 40:31

Want God to give you a heart like Jesus? Let’s pray;

Heavenly Father, I want to invite you into my situations and ask you to give me a heart like Jesus. I surrender to your agenda for my life and not my own and I ask you to transform my mind and my heart and my way of thinking so that I can get into the flow of how you wish to work in my life. I want to enjoy this wonderful Christmas celebration of Jesus birthday, and I want to do it with a heart like Jesus. I shall wait upon you with expectation dear father, knowing that you can do this for me, if only you will. In Jesus name, I ask and pray – Amen