This is my very first Christmas alone for all of my 57 years. It's humbling, to say the least. Yes, I know I'm not 'truly alone' for Jesus is always with me but my human eyes don't see Him, my human ears cannot hear Him and my mortal arms cannot surround Him here in my lonely, empty home. But if I close my eyes and I concentrate on God's amazing Love and His grace for me, I can begin to feel His eyes on me, I can begin to feel His presence and His arms surrounding me as I keep my mind focused on HIM. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lucado and your family. Thank you for your gift this morning.
Yes, A lot of people facing so many difficulties and severe hardships. My dear, this world is only temporary and we will be gone very soon to meet our Jesus. Keep your eyes on the eternity of Heaven. Set your mind on things that are above where Christ is seated in heaven and not on this earth.
Ellen, We are here for a very short time. I have been extremely alone to the point of unbearable crying in my home years ago. I went through losses, was homeless for days and slept in different homes so I do not have to sleep in my car.. These troubles feel long a very long time when we are in the midst of deep suffering and loss. I tell myself this is only TEMPORARY and Jesus will return to take us home or we take our last breaths before we die and be with Jesus in Heaven forever and ever!!
It's ok to cry. I am sorry for your pain. Soon you will be with family for all eternity!! What a glorious day. Look for the little treasures from God that will give you strength and sustain you through this time. He will send them! Be strengthened! Merry Christmas dear one!
Please pray for my depression and that God will bring the truth to light in a certain situation im facing. I need a miracle i guess at this point. What's impossible for men is possible for God. The weapon may be formed but it wont prosper. Prayers for all the heavy hearts and minds today
H.R.M. Anderson, I pray in Jesus Name for the depression to be gone. Jesus is able & willing to heal every problem that you’re facing; there’s Nothing too hard for Him! Keep praying, reading your Bible & believing that Jesus is right there with you & He loves you dearly. Give it all to Him & let go of it knowing that you’re putting it all in very capable hands. If you rearrange the letters in depression, you get the words: I pressed on!! That’s what we all have to do; we must press on because we know this life is as a flower, a vapor, a blink, & then Eternity with our Savior where we’ll have no more pain, sorrow or sadness. Keep the faith no matter what sister, in Jesus Holy Name. Love & Prayers, Sister Pat 👏🙌❤️
God bless you beloved. I don't know you in person but God knows you well God reveal a revelation to me when i was going through your profile to observe things about your spiritual life. While i was meditating, i saw a divine breakthrough in your life and i saw evil attacks of the enemies manipulating on seizing your favour and to come against your hand work for you to be confuse and lost hope in life. As i was praying the lord reveal to me and Instruct you to sow a seed into the life of a baby suffering from leukemia in St Paul orphanage home located in USA before the end of tomorrow and let me know so I can join you in prayers deeply because he want to manifest his promises in your life and that of your family, Nobody should know about the seed is between you and your God, you will testify to the Glory of God after you have done it if only you believe in him and do what he says Proverb (3:27;21:26;22:9;Deu28:1-5). Contact the MD of the orphanage home on whatsapp on +19142062589 and send your donation to them
Hostage!...is correct....our elderly has no place or value in our time, society....where is OUR future!?...with killing the unborn, the elderly are next!....humans of ANY age are viable.....Almighty God have MERCY
I also have a 91 year old mother in an assisted living facility. We have not been able to go in and she cannot leave, but it's not a hostage situation. The staff are desperately trying to keep Covid out and keep the residents alive. But the isolation has weighed down on mom and her mental faculties are declining. I will pray for the staff at your mother's facility and for your mother. May God's peace and protection cover her and you!
The Holy Spirit: God in Us John 16:7-15 God’s presence with mankind has become more intimate-from a cloud of glory in the temple, to the incarnate Son of God living with men, to the indwelling presence of His Spirit. In other words, God the Holy Spirit actually takes up residence within each believer! That’s why Jesus said it was better for Him to go away, because then the Helper could come. While on earth, the Christ could be in only one place at a time. But after His ascension, the Holy Spirit came to impart divine wisdom, insight, and power. If you want to see the difference this made, compare the disciples’ lives before and after Pentecost. They were transformed from timid men to bold preachers ready to suffer for the gospel. The Lord wants to accomplish His will through us. But without His supernatural indwelling presence, we can’t become the people He wants us to be. Through His Spirit, Jesus Christ lives His life in us, empowering His work. If we really believed this, we would live like the victorious children of God that we are. If you are a believer, think about the amazing blessing that is yours: Even when you feel inadequate, God’s power resides within you. No challenge is insurmountable, because the Holy Spirit is greater than any obstacle you’ll ever face.
Thank you Ranch girl for this reminder. 2020 has been a hard & 💔 year for me & many, & in our pain & humanity we forget WHO we belong to & his ♡ for us. I am in Laura Dickerson's shoes, my husband & 3 out of 4 daughters are out of church, fellowship, & the Bible & choosing to live in this world. It's very discouraging as I see no hope of change, & they continue to walk in the dark. I'm so thankful for Max's teaching & loving encouragement to the believers & those God is drawing to himself. 🎄🧔😌
Reading this 2 days later. We had a tough Christmas. My mother had a stroke the weekend before and had to go into rehab. It was not a bad stroke but enough that we could not care for her. It was the first Christmas we have had without her in over 30 years. She is 93. On top of that, our oldest son, who is autistic, went into a manic crisis faise and would not go back to his apartment. He is having ideation that we can't discern if it's hallucinations or some kind of autistic thing. He needs care from people who understand autism. Most just consider him a psychiatric case and throw medicine at it. He is 36. My husband, my brother, and myself need God's wisdom and peace to be able to handle this. It is a burden that I don't feel I can bear. Thank you, to anyone who pays for us. I deeply appreciate it!
Merry Christmas Max & family! My son, who needs to find Jesus, is experiencing terrifying anxiety. Please lift him up in prayer as he works through this really hard time in life. Thank you! 🙏❤
The human mind can’t even begin to comprehend how this agape love was displayed & given to us all when the King of the universe(s) took off His Heavenly robes, came to earth as a newborn, took all our sin upon Himself, dying for the first time ever completely separated from the Father just so we could some day return Home as He did! That is the purest, most sincere love ever created. Sacrificial unconditional love!
God, it's a time of sifting in the families, but I pray that those who walk with you would have peace and love regardless of others. I pray for Divine strength for the faithful. Thank you Jesus for what you will do.
Amen! Would you please pray for the beggars of India? We are here to represent the love of Jesus to them. Please pray for India to come to Christ. May the Lord demonstrate His power through miracles, signs and wonders, that the Name of Jesus will be lifted up in this land! ua-cam.com/video/ZQqgNrrwEiM/v-deo.html
I have been so touched by your messages this year and I thank you and praise God for the gift of a kind and gentle pastor. May God Bless the Lucado family. Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas!! Please send prayers out to my grandma who is in her 70’s, she is dealing with covid an pneumonia and just a few months ago, she lost her husband. Thank you sm,have a wonderful day❤️
Dear God, help her to get through today! Let her feel your presence. You promise to never leave us or forsake us. Give her great peace Lord. Thank you for what you will do!! Love you Lord!
Please pray for my son in law Tyrone heart trouble, blood clots, his wife my daughter with bad diabetes weight problems among other health issues, but mostly for salvation for my whole family. I am alone on this earth accept for God and I want my family saved also.
Max, you have been such a blessing to me. I have learned so much from you! I cannot thank you enough for your priceless teachings. Blessings to you and your family. Max, I pray that my daughter have God's gift of health and longevity on Earth. Abundant health and joy! May her lungs be full of God's breath and may she never need to be hospitalized again. May deep blessings shower her. May the Lord protect her from illness and disease. And, for a debt free life and true healing and restoration in my broken marriage. For my family...God bless you and your family, Max!
Merry Christmas!!! Praise Jesus for answered prayer for Glenn’s job!!! 🙏 And thanks for all prayers especially Eric & Ranchgirl!! ♥️ And still praying for you Eric for a job!!
God I pray that you would give Mary special Divine strength in her situation. I pray for her peace and joy to be protected. Thank you Jesus for what you will do!
Please pray for a friends father who is fighting covid19 and soubl pneumonia. Merry Christmas to everyone. Have a blessed new year. Thank you for prayers.
Blessings on each and every brother and sister in CHRIST! Emmanuel - GOD with us! Joy to each of you as we realize GOD's great love for us! Prayer that we all sense HIS HOLY SPIRIT through these times, may we celebrate JESUS' birth, knowing next time we see HIM it will be as our KING and SAVIOR! To GOD be the glory...
Amen! God bless you too!! Would you please pray for the beggars of India? We are here to represent the love of Jesus to them. Please pray for India to come to Christ. May the Lord demonstrate His power through miracles, signs and wonders, that the Name of Jesus will be lifted up in this land! ua-cam.com/video/ZQqgNrrwEiM/v-deo.html
Beloved, “a Savior has been born to you” (Luke 2:11). No matter what else Christmas 2020 holds-we are held by Jesus, and he will hold us fast. In Jesus, we have “righteousness, holiness, and redemption” (1 Cor. 1:30). By Jesus, we are fully known and totally loved. Hallelujah!
On my knees, praying now & throughout the day for you Dear Friend. May God bless & keep you ♥️ I have called you back from the ends of the earth, saying, ‘You are my servant.’ For I have chosen you and will not throw you away. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand. “See, all your angry enemies lie there, confused and humiliated. Anyone who opposes you will die and come to nothing. You will look in vain for those who tried to conquer you. Those who attack you will come to nothing. For I hold you by your right hand- I, the Lord your God. And I say to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I am here to help you. Isaiah 41:9-13 NLT bible.com/bible/116/isa.41.9-13.NLT
Find a verse that addresses your problem and pray it out loud. I know that everything you see and feel is opposite! But this is the process of living by faith. It's because we have no evidence of it, we believe. Read Luke 1. Note the difference between Zacharias' response and Marys. Both situations were completely impossible. Our response is key. Hebrews 10 and 11. Also there are so many verses in the psalms. The miracles of Jesus rested on their faith. I noticed that He said... according to your faith ... many times. But the problem is our reality...it is depressing!🥴 So we quote the verse that will become our anchor. And we say to ourselves.... regardless of how I feel, I believe. And thank Him for the verse that gives hope. If you study hope, it is very interesting. Now it is true that we will not see every need here fulfilled. We are not alone. Read Hebrews 11. Half of them got their prayers answered and half didn't. BUT, notice God's thoughts... "The world wasn't even worthy of them!" Wow! Did you ever think God could say that about us!?! All because of faith. Also remember the guys in Daniel who went through the fire. This message is key. They knew God could deliver them but they said they would not give in regardless. This needs to be our example. So say to yourself, regardless of what happens....I will praise God... Notice that God didn't deliver, but went through the fire with them. Notice how it says that they didn't smell like smoke. God showed me that this is like bitterness, anger and resentment etc. When we have Jesus with us, we don't have these things so tightly attached to us. It's because we are joyful that He either delivered us or strengthened us beyond our ability to handle it. He wants to grow our faith in these times because so much is at stake. The key to the whole thing is thanking Him regardless of what happens to us. I can't explain it fully, but that is our biggest, most effective tool to fight the terrible enemy that is trying to take us out. Remember that Satan comes to kill, steel and destroy. He wants our peace, faith and joy. The battle rages on. Fight. We must be overcomers! God bless you richly!!! Merry Christmas, And I am sorry for your pain. Hopefully soon it will be over!!
Merry Christmas to your family pastor Max. I remember him always he came and die for us. We are here for Christmas remember Jesus was born on Christmas Day
My Mothers name was Thelma. I love when I hear someone by that name! I ask for prayer for my sister/cousin about 3 days ago, with a possible stroke. I just heard she is going home from hospital today. She is 700 miles from me so we don't see each other that much. Thanks for your prayers and for continued prayers. James 5:16. Also asking for prayers for my friend Donia who is in a lot of pain and for continued prayers. James 5:16 Thank you so much.
Merry Christmas! Please pray for un upcoming CT scan to find out what a nodule on my lung is about. Also please pray for my friends and family to accept the gift of salvation.
Merry christmas and thank you for your talks each day. They are so uplifting and insightful. Please pray for my family. I'm a senior living with my youngest son. Other sons moved in including my eldest who is now in detox for at least a month. Everyone out of work.
Brother, it’s been a very difficult week; a very hard year. I would really appreciate your prayers; God knows every situation & I am praying for a mighty touch from my Savior, Jesus Christ. I know nothing is too hard for Him to handle. God bless you & Merry Christmas & in Jesus Name, a blessed New Year for us all !! 👏🙌
Merry Christmas and God bless your day and ministry. Were praising God this morning for His many gifts. But we're also having a difficult day filled with pain, sickness, fear of future, and sadness. Please pray for us. Thank you.
Merry Christmas 🎄💗 Please pray for the world now as it is in such troubled times. Pray that more will turn to Jesus Christ as a result 💗 Pray for the unbelievers that their hearts will be opened to Christ at this time. God bless you 💗
God bless you in the Philippines. I had a social media friend there but had to quit the app. Wishing I could reach out to her now. Merry Christmas Blake my friend. Merry Christmas to you Mayalita!
For my daughter who just ignores me. It really hurts. I have a broken heart. She has not contacted me for Christmas. If only I knew what the problem is. She is not born again. I pray for salvation.
I cant tell you how your books have challenged me. They have freed me and have shown how to be a better Christian. The Angel's were Silent and He still moves stones are my all time favorites. Keep on keeping on, as God has blessed your ministry!!! I thank Him for you and the others who have helped shape my life!Thank you! For you who are in struggles...God is ever near, He knows your name and loves you. Hang on tight and never let him go. You will come out on the other side!
I pray for a way when there is no way, hope when there is no hope. You are the Lord who sustains. God have mercy. God is our provider. God is our protection. We thank you for what you will do!
@@randydowell3902 , God I pray for Randy's son, that you would grow his faith and turn this out for good. I pray that you would make a way. I pray that we would see God move in his life and bring peace and strength. I pray that this would be used to build his faith on the rock. I pray that God would bless him richly. I pray that he would seek first the kingdom and you would add all these things unto him. I pray that he would learn deeper to thank you in the storm and find your rich treasure. Merry Christmas, may God sustain your family!
Thank you for your time, encouragement, wonderful words and blessings of your books so lovingly written. Giving Jesus to all and making spirits bright. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Thank you for your messages, prayers and faithfulness in the service of our Lord. Merry Christmas. I pray the Lord shower you with joy this day and that He fill you with His presence and continue to direct you in the coming year.
My wife and I are getting ready to open up a chiropractic business. Please pray that God will be with us, and He will open the doors... Thank you for this incredible video!
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Merry Christmas! this video is beautiful! what a blessing to know and have a relationship with Jesus! 🙏❤ I pray that we all hold tight to this word now and in 2021!
God bless! I soooo appreciate the Word you share. Pray-work at hand Insight Wisdom to travel or not My friend to have a job My prayer warrior/shut-ins to have visitors Coworkers immense blessings, clarity, peace, wisdom, energy Family health America see Savior
I have been enjoying your presentations every morning. Your story The Crippled Lamb touched my heart. I want to share it with my great grand daughters. Please pray for me to accept the changes in my life. Merry Christmas.
Yes he can, and he will!! Your faith in his healing will grant you your wish for a complete, and total recovery for him! Just sent a prayer your way. God Bless🙏
Oh, dear God, I pray that you will touch this boy with your healing hand. I pray that he would have peace and hope in the middle of his trial. Strengthen him greatly!!! Have mercy on him. Thank you for what you will do!
Max, Thank you for all of your messages during this past year. They have been hopeful, instructive, & inspiring. May God continue to bless you and your family. I was privileged to meet you years ago when I was a student & you were a student at ACU. I look forward to heavens fellowship some day soon with God my Savior, friends, family, & saints. God bless! Glenn
Kindly pray for us. We are in hopeless state. We came from generations of non christian background. But God saved us .but now we are in tough times bacause of family . I cant share many things and how tough life is until God sets us free. But the greatest trouble is we dont have personal relationship with god to comfort , guide and lead us. Kindly pray for us to experience God and also God to show up in our situation. Pray for us nirmal, jesy, bena , saina, rashmi. Looking forward to share our testimony once God sets us free. Thank you your messages helped a lot.
@@elizaj5758 Sure. Trough the really bad times now I know that I can be comforted and find the peace and love that only comes from Jesus. We can always find hope in Him. God bless you and give you everything that you need to get through in faith in Him. He loves you so much.
Merry Christmas Pastor Max! God bless you and your loved ones. Jesus is so good. Let us all celebrate His birth and His coming to earth to save us all. Blessed be our glorious God and Savior forever and ever. Amen
you’ve been a kind and humble servant/pastor through this outreach and I have prospered in learning more of Jesus through you in the past months....thank you, Max. Thanks for inspiring us to love our soon returning King even more and more. Blessed Christmas and may your new year be filled with faith, joy, and ever increasing understanding of His Word. May you and your family be blessed with good health. Lord, thank You for pouring tenderness and grace upon this man...grant him more wisdom to live in these darkening days.
Merry Christmas Max! Hope you and your family had a wonderful celebration of our Savior’s birth! I’ve enjoyed listening to your msgs and words of encouragement over the past few months. Thanks for that.
Dear God I pray that you would make a way where there is no way. God I pray that you would provide. God I pray that we would seek first the kingdom of God and you would add all these things to us. God I pray that you would protect his peace and his faith would increase. I pray we would have joy as we see you move in our lives. God sustain him. Thank you for what you will do!!! Merry Christmas brother!
A happy and holy Christmas to you Pastor Max and to your family and church. Thank you for your amazing Christmas message reminding us that our God came to us in a humble and unassuming package! Thank God for His priceless gift of love to us so simply given.
Bless you & your family 🎄🙏🏻🌟🕯❤️ Merry Christmas 🎁 Pray for my health that it would get strong so I can get back to my mission work for those in need 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Please pray for the families of two of my dear friends Joe and Jolynn Reynolds who died within 10 days of each other. I also ask that you pray for another long time friend who’s health is failing and is hospitalized but cannot be visited by family or friends. Her name is Sharon Rhoads. I further ask that you pray for our country and it’s leaders that we can all find a way to resolve our differences and rise above the insanity that plagues our country and the world.
This is my very first Christmas alone for all of my 57 years. It's humbling, to say the least. Yes, I know I'm not 'truly alone' for Jesus is always with me but my human eyes don't see Him, my human ears cannot hear Him and my mortal arms cannot surround Him here in my lonely, empty home. But if I close my eyes and I concentrate on God's amazing Love and His grace for me, I can begin to feel His eyes on me, I can begin to feel His presence and His arms surrounding me as I keep my mind focused on HIM. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lucado and your family. Thank you for your gift this morning.
Merry Christmas.
Yes, A lot of people facing so many difficulties and severe hardships. My dear, this world is only temporary and we will be gone very soon to meet our Jesus.
Keep your eyes on the eternity of Heaven.
Set your mind on things that are above where Christ is seated in heaven and not on this earth.
Ellen,
We are here for a very short time.
I have been extremely alone to the point of unbearable crying in my home years ago.
I went through losses, was homeless for days and slept in different homes so I do not have to sleep in my car..
These troubles feel long a very long time when we are in the midst of deep suffering and loss.
I tell myself this is only TEMPORARY and Jesus will return to take us home or we take our last breaths before we die and be with Jesus in Heaven forever and ever!!
It's ok to cry.
I am sorry for your pain.
Soon you will be with family for all eternity!!
What a glorious day.
Look for the little treasures from God that will give you strength and sustain you through this time.
He will send them!
Be strengthened!
Merry Christmas dear one!
I am too alone here on earth this Christmas day but Jesus is holding my hand. Happy Birthday Savior!!
Please pray for our nation and breakthrough. We are called to pray for our father to intervene. This nation was created through him.
Please pray for my depression and that God will bring the truth to light in a certain situation im facing. I need a miracle i guess at this point. What's impossible for men is possible for God. The weapon may be formed but it wont prosper.
Prayers for all the heavy hearts and minds today
Praying for Thr Lord lift you up
H.R.M. Anderson, I pray in Jesus Name for the depression to be gone. Jesus is able & willing to heal every problem that you’re facing; there’s Nothing too hard for Him! Keep praying, reading your Bible & believing that Jesus is right there with you & He loves you dearly. Give it all to Him & let go of it knowing that you’re putting it all in very capable hands. If you rearrange the letters in depression, you get the words: I pressed on!! That’s what we all have to do; we must press on because we know this life is as a flower, a vapor, a blink, & then Eternity with our Savior where we’ll have no more pain, sorrow or sadness. Keep the faith no matter what sister, in Jesus Holy Name. Love & Prayers, Sister Pat 👏🙌❤️
God bless you beloved.
I don't know you in person but God knows you well
God reveal a revelation to me when i was going through your profile
to observe things about your spiritual life. While i was meditating,
i saw a divine breakthrough in your life and i saw evil attacks of
the enemies manipulating on seizing
your favour and to come against your hand work for you to be confuse and lost hope in life. As i was praying the lord reveal to me and Instruct you to sow a seed into the life of a baby suffering from leukemia in St Paul orphanage home located in USA before the end of tomorrow and let me know so I can join you in prayers deeply because he want to manifest his promises in your life and that of your family, Nobody should know about the seed is between you and your God, you will testify to the Glory of God after you have done it if only you believe in him and do what he says Proverb (3:27;21:26;22:9;Deu28:1-5). Contact
the MD of the orphanage home on whatsapp on +19142062589 and send your donation to them
Praying for you to sense GOD's presence and power in your life. May the peace that passes all understanding bless your heart and mind.
Please pray for my 90 year old mother who has been held hostage in her nursing home since COVID. Lord, take her to her eternal home with you.
May lord set her free in the earth and so in heaven too.
Prayers sent...
Dear God I pray for this lady to have peace and strength that can only come from you! Have mercy God. I thank you for what you will do!
Hostage!...is correct....our elderly has no place or value in our time, society....where is OUR future!?...with killing the unborn, the elderly are next!....humans of ANY age are viable.....Almighty God have MERCY
I also have a 91 year old mother in an assisted living facility. We have not been able to go in and she cannot leave, but it's not a hostage situation. The staff are desperately trying to keep Covid out and keep the residents alive. But the isolation has weighed down on mom and her mental faculties are declining. I will pray for the staff at your mother's facility and for your mother. May God's peace and protection cover her and you!
Pray for me as I am in pain(Arthritis)Thank you everyone for your prayers. James 5:16The prayers of a believing person avails much.
Praying for The Lord eases your pain
Please pray for my little sister and my children that the spirit of our lord will fill their hearts they are lost
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Please pray for restoration in my family. Desperately need God to intervene!
Praying for reconciliation of you and your family.
The Holy Spirit: God in Us
John 16:7-15
God’s presence with mankind has become more intimate-from a cloud of glory in the temple, to the incarnate Son of God living with men, to the indwelling presence of His Spirit. In other words, God the Holy Spirit actually takes up residence within each believer! That’s why Jesus said it was better for Him to go away, because then the Helper could come.
While on earth, the Christ could be in only one place at a time. But after His ascension, the Holy Spirit came to impart divine wisdom, insight, and power. If you want to see the difference this made, compare the disciples’ lives before and after Pentecost. They were transformed from timid men to bold preachers ready to suffer for the gospel.
The Lord wants to accomplish His will through us. But without His supernatural indwelling presence, we can’t become the people He wants us to be. Through His Spirit, Jesus Christ lives His life in us, empowering His work. If we really believed this, we would live like the victorious children of God that we are.
If you are a believer, think about the amazing blessing that is yours: Even when you feel inadequate, God’s power resides within you. No challenge is insurmountable, because the Holy Spirit is greater than any obstacle you’ll ever face.
Thank you Ranch girl for this reminder. 2020 has been a hard & 💔 year for me & many, & in our pain & humanity we forget WHO we belong to & his ♡ for us. I am in Laura Dickerson's shoes, my husband & 3 out of 4 daughters are out of church, fellowship, & the Bible & choosing to live in this world. It's very discouraging as I see no hope of change, & they continue to walk in the dark. I'm so thankful for Max's teaching & loving encouragement to the believers & those God is drawing to himself. 🎄🧔😌
Reading this 2 days later. We had a tough Christmas. My mother had a stroke the weekend before and had to go into
rehab. It was not a bad stroke but enough that we could not care for her. It was the first Christmas we have had without her in over 30 years. She is 93.
On top of that, our oldest son, who is autistic, went into a manic crisis faise and would not go back to his apartment. He is having ideation that we can't discern if it's hallucinations or some kind of autistic thing. He needs care from people who understand autism. Most just consider him a psychiatric case and throw medicine at it. He is 36.
My husband, my brother, and myself need God's wisdom and peace to be able to handle this. It is a burden that I don't feel I can bear. Thank you, to anyone who pays for us. I deeply appreciate it!
Praying for all your family. Hang in there.
GOD is with you. I pray you sense HIS presence. Trust HIM. It is not your job to fix things, GOD's got this...
Merry Christmas Max & family! My son, who needs to find Jesus, is experiencing terrifying anxiety. Please lift him up in prayer as he works through this really hard time in life. Thank you! 🙏❤
Praying for your son
The human mind can’t even begin to comprehend how this agape love was displayed & given to us all when the King of the universe(s) took off His Heavenly robes, came to earth as a newborn, took all our sin upon Himself, dying for the first time ever completely separated from the Father just so we could some day return Home as He did! That is the purest, most sincere love ever created. Sacrificial unconditional love!
God to show me purpose at current time and His provision for a job and victory in Him !
Amen!
Please pray for our family relationships. Thank you for all your encouragement, Max. I was given one of your books for Christmas.
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God, it's a time of sifting in the families, but I pray that those who walk with you would have peace and love regardless of others. I pray for Divine strength for the faithful. Thank you Jesus for what you will do.
I just finished his " Never alone " book... was amazing. highly recommend. 🙏
Praise Him for His birth,death and resurrection. I live because He lives. Merry Christmas to all.
Amen! Would you please pray for the beggars of India? We are here to represent the love of Jesus to them. Please pray for India to come to Christ. May the Lord demonstrate His power through miracles, signs and wonders, that the Name of Jesus will be lifted up in this land! ua-cam.com/video/ZQqgNrrwEiM/v-deo.html
Please pray for my marriage, healing of my husband's PTSD and for completion of work God is doing in me.
Praying for you both Gods will and plan for your future.
I have been so touched by your messages this year and I thank you and praise God for the gift of a kind and gentle pastor. May God Bless the Lucado family. Merry Christmas
God bless us every one.
Merry Christmas!! Please send prayers out to my grandma who is in her 70’s, she is dealing with covid an pneumonia and just a few months ago, she lost her husband. Thank you sm,have a wonderful day❤️
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Prayed
Dear God, help her to get through today!
Let her feel your presence. You promise to never leave us or forsake us. Give her great peace Lord. Thank you for what you will do!! Love you Lord!
Praying for you Gran may her health improve quickly and she find peace this season
I am praying for your grandma, that Jesus touches her with healing power! Bless you for reaching out for prayers on behalf of your grandma!
Merry Christmas from Brazil. A blessed day for you all 🙏🏼💖
Merry Christmas from America!
Please pray for my son in law Tyrone heart trouble, blood clots, his wife my daughter with bad diabetes weight problems among other health issues, but mostly for salvation for my whole family. I am alone on this earth accept for God and I want my family saved also.
Praying for all family
Max, you have been such a blessing to me. I have learned so much from you! I cannot thank you enough for your priceless teachings. Blessings to you and your family. Max, I pray that my daughter have God's gift of health and longevity on Earth. Abundant health and joy! May her lungs be full of God's breath and may she never need to be hospitalized again. May deep blessings shower her. May the Lord protect her from illness and disease. And, for a debt free life and true healing and restoration in my broken marriage. For my family...God bless you and your family, Max!
Praying for you, tour daughter and all tour family
Merry Christmas to all and thank you for all your prayers.
Merry Christmas!!! Praise Jesus for answered prayer for Glenn’s job!!! 🙏 And thanks for all prayers especially Eric & Ranchgirl!! ♥️ And still praying for you Eric for a job!!
amen
Praise Jesus for Glenn's Job Merry Christmas!!
@@ranchgirl5594 Praise Jesus!!! You are an awesome prayer warrior Ranch Girl!! Merry Christmas!!!🎄
You are a blessing in a very hard time!
God I pray that you would give Mary special Divine strength in her situation. I pray for her peace and joy to be protected. Thank you Jesus for what you will do!
Please pray for a friends father who is fighting covid19 and soubl pneumonia. Merry Christmas to everyone. Have a blessed new year. Thank you for prayers.
Praying for healing
Merry Christmas and bless you Max and your family. I am alone on this day from family, but NEVER ALONE wtih God everpresent.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas!
Soon we will be with a very big family and never be alone for all eternity!
Please pray for residents of an Owego, NY nursing home that had to be evacuated last night when the facility flooded.
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Blessings on each and every brother and sister in CHRIST! Emmanuel - GOD with us! Joy to each of you as we realize GOD's great love for us! Prayer that we all sense HIS HOLY SPIRIT through these times, may we celebrate JESUS' birth, knowing next time we see HIM it will be as our KING and SAVIOR! To GOD be the glory...
Amen! God bless you too!! Would you please pray for the beggars of India? We are here to represent the love of Jesus to them. Please pray for India to come to Christ. May the Lord demonstrate His power through miracles, signs and wonders, that the Name of Jesus will be lifted up in this land! ua-cam.com/video/ZQqgNrrwEiM/v-deo.html
Merry Christmas to you and all mankind! Happy birthday Jesus! Your words inspire me every day, thank you and thank Jesus 💗
Please pray that my son might return to the Lord & that his family would also know & love the Lord. Thanks 🙏
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God bless you. Our only child died and my husband works the holidays on base. I'm alone but not alone. Christ is in me
Bless you sweet child of God. May Christ continue to comfort you and fill you with joy everlasting
@@heatherdixon5724 amen
Thanks Max. Merry Christmas to all of you! I'm praying I am always reminded to be grateful. It's a difficult world to live in for so many.
pray for a Christmas miracle in my marriage
Praying for that miracle
Beloved, “a Savior has been born to you” (Luke 2:11). No matter what else Christmas 2020 holds-we are held by Jesus, and he will hold us fast. In Jesus, we have “righteousness, holiness, and redemption” (1 Cor. 1:30). By Jesus, we are fully known and totally loved. Hallelujah!
Pray for nowf to get saved because only then his kids can be raised as children of god.
Merry Christmas pray for my depression and for a financial situation.
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On my knees, praying now & throughout the day for you Dear Friend. May God bless & keep you ♥️
I have called you back from the ends of the earth, saying, ‘You are my servant.’ For I have chosen you and will not throw you away. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand. “See, all your angry enemies lie there, confused and humiliated. Anyone who opposes you will die and come to nothing. You will look in vain for those who tried to conquer you. Those who attack you will come to nothing. For I hold you by your right hand- I, the Lord your God. And I say to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I am here to help you.
Isaiah 41:9-13 NLT
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Find a verse that addresses your problem and pray it out loud.
I know that everything you see and feel is opposite!
But this is the process of living by faith. It's because we have no evidence of it, we believe.
Read Luke 1.
Note the difference between Zacharias' response and Marys.
Both situations were completely impossible.
Our response is key.
Hebrews 10 and 11. Also there are so many verses in the psalms.
The miracles of Jesus rested on their faith. I noticed that He said... according to your faith ... many times.
But the problem is our reality...it is depressing!🥴
So we quote the verse that will become our anchor. And we say to ourselves.... regardless of how I feel, I believe. And thank Him for the verse that gives hope.
If you study hope, it is very interesting.
Now it is true that we will not see every need here fulfilled. We are not alone. Read Hebrews 11. Half of them got their prayers answered and half didn't. BUT, notice God's thoughts...
"The world wasn't even worthy of them!"
Wow!
Did you ever think God could say that about us!?!
All because of faith.
Also remember the guys in Daniel who went through the fire.
This message is key. They knew God could deliver them but they said they would not give in regardless. This needs to be our example. So say to yourself, regardless of what happens....I will praise God...
Notice that God didn't deliver, but went through the fire with them. Notice how it says that they didn't smell like smoke.
God showed me that this is like bitterness, anger and resentment etc. When we have Jesus with us, we don't have these things so tightly attached to us.
It's because we are joyful that He either delivered us or strengthened us beyond our ability to handle it.
He wants to grow our faith in these times because so much is at stake.
The key to the whole thing is thanking Him regardless of what happens to us. I can't explain it fully, but that is our biggest, most effective tool to fight the terrible enemy that is trying to take us out.
Remember that Satan comes to kill, steel and destroy. He wants our peace, faith and joy.
The battle rages on.
Fight. We must be overcomers!
God bless you richly!!!
Merry Christmas,
And I am sorry for your pain. Hopefully soon it will be over!!
Will do 🙏🙏
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
PLEASE PRAY FOR MY SISTERS CHRONIC INSOMNIA, FOR IT COULD COST HER, HER VERY LIFE!! THANK YOU SO MUCH~🙏
Praying for your sister
Merry Christmas to your family pastor Max. I remember him always he came and die for us. We are here for Christmas remember Jesus was born on Christmas Day
Thank you today for this most beautiful message!
Merry Christmas Jesus please pray for my health Thank You
Praying for your health
@@vandelay2112 thank you
My Mothers name was Thelma. I love when I hear someone by that name! I ask for prayer for my sister/cousin about 3 days ago, with a possible stroke. I just heard she is going home from hospital today. She is 700 miles from me so we don't see each other that much. Thanks for your prayers and for continued prayers. James 5:16. Also asking for prayers for my friend Donia who is in a lot of pain and for continued prayers. James 5:16 Thank you so much.
Merry Christmas Mr Lucado and Family ! To GOD be the glory great things he has done ! Prayers for those suffering today 🙏🏼
Amen
Merry Christmas. So glad I found your channel. It has been so inspiring. Please pray for me as I continue to struggle.
Praying for The Lord continúe to uphold you
@@vandelay2112 Thank you!
Marry CHRIST-mas Max and your staff!!Please pray that all comes to Christ Jesus! Praying for you all, please pray for my Family also ty!✝️🙏😇❤️☝️
Merry Christmas to the Lucados and to all of you who read this comment. May God bless you in all things.
Merry Christmas! Please pray for un upcoming CT scan to find out what a nodule on my lung is about. Also please pray for my friends and family to accept the gift of salvation.
Praying for tour health, your family and Friends
Merry christmas and thank you for your talks each day. They are so uplifting and insightful. Please pray for my family. I'm a senior living with my youngest son. Other sons moved in including my eldest who is now in detox for at least a month. Everyone out of work.
Praying for your family
Thank you.
Brother, it’s been a very difficult week; a very hard year. I would really appreciate your prayers; God knows every situation & I am praying for a mighty touch from my Savior, Jesus Christ. I know nothing is too hard for Him to handle. God bless you & Merry Christmas & in Jesus Name, a blessed New Year for us all !! 👏🙌
Praying for you
Please pray for my son Chris and my daughter Stephanie to believe in Jesus.
Praying for Chris and Stephanie
Thank you
Merry Christmas and God bless your day and ministry. Were praising God this morning for His many gifts. But we're also having a difficult day filled with pain, sickness, fear of future, and sadness. Please pray for us. Thank you.
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Merry Christmas 🎄💗 Please pray for the world now as it is in such troubled times. Pray that more will turn to Jesus Christ as a result 💗 Pray for the unbelievers that their hearts will be opened to Christ at this time. God bless you 💗
Amen
Prayers for my friend Monique she lost her 33 years old daughter on Christmas morning 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼, my heart goes for her and her family
Praying for Monique
Yes Jesus is God!
MERRY CHRISTMAS MAX LUCADO AND FAMILY GOD BLESS YOUR MINISTRY!!!WATCHING FROM THE PHILIPPINES
God bless you in the Philippines. I had a social media friend there but had to quit the app. Wishing I could reach out to her now. Merry Christmas Blake my friend. Merry Christmas to you Mayalita!
Merry Christmas
Welcome Friends from the Philipines Merry Christmas
For my daughter who just ignores me. It really hurts. I have a broken heart. She has not contacted me for Christmas. If only I knew what the problem is. She is not born again. I pray for salvation.
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I cant tell you how your books have challenged me. They have freed me and have shown how to be a better Christian. The Angel's were Silent and He still moves stones are my all time favorites.
Keep on keeping on, as God has blessed your ministry!!! I thank Him for you and the others who have helped shape my life!Thank you! For you who are in struggles...God is ever near, He knows your name and loves you. Hang on tight and never let him go. You will come out on the other side!
Merry, Merry Christmas!, dear gracious minister of our Great God....
Merry Christmas Max and to everyone!
Merry Christmas. Please pray for hope for my son's future. Right now it looks pretty hopeless.
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I feel the same about mine. I will pray for him now. Merry Christmas to you and may God’s peace and love fill you and keep you!
I pray for a way when there is no way, hope when there is no hope. You are the Lord who sustains. God have mercy. God is our provider. God is our protection. We thank you for what you will do!
@@randydowell3902 , God I pray for Randy's son, that you would grow his faith and turn this out for good. I pray that you would make a way. I pray that we would see God move in his life and bring peace and strength. I pray that this would be used to build his faith on the rock. I pray that God would bless him richly. I pray that he would seek first the kingdom and you would add all these things unto him.
I pray that he would learn deeper to thank you in the storm and find your rich treasure.
Merry Christmas, may God sustain your family!
@@atimetobestill1132 Amen. Thank you for that powerful prayer. God bless you richly my sibling in Christ!
Thank you for your time, encouragement, wonderful words and blessings of your books so lovingly written. Giving Jesus to all and making spirits bright. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Please pray for my finances and housing that Jesus would continue to provide. Thank you and god bless you and your ministry❤️
Praying for God's provision
Thank you for your messages, prayers and faithfulness in the service of our Lord. Merry Christmas. I pray the Lord shower you with joy this day and that He fill you with His presence and continue to direct you in the coming year.
Merry Christmas to you and your family and may you be blessed today and every day of the year
Thank you.. these devotionals are such a blessing that helps encourage and strengthen us especially during these tough times.. God bless you!
My wife and I are getting ready to open up a chiropractic business. Please pray that God will be with us, and He will open the doors... Thank you for this incredible video!
Praying for God's guidance and provisión in your bussiness
Thank you Jesus for your most
wonderful gift.
Merry Christmas to all.
Have a Blessed 2021 Everyone!
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How to Overcome Grief & Loss (Part One)
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God bless you and you're ministry max lucado.
Pray for our financial situation and for my daughter to forgive her brother.
Praying for your financial.and familiar situation
May the blessings, joy and peace of our Lord and Savior be with you, Max.
Merry Christmas 🎁 Praise God for his perfect gift.❤️💫
Please pray for my daughter. She is being lured into witchcraft.
Have a very Merry Christmas on this blessed day.🙏🎄
Praying for the enemy to flee your daughter in the Mighty Name of JESUS
Agreeing in prayer 🙌🙏🕊
This morning my husband Bob, went to meet JESUS.
Prayers of Peace for those he has left behind. Knowing you will all be together again ! Praise GOD !
Sad, sad news for those left behind...... so sorry for your painful loss....🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️
Merry Christmas! this video is beautiful! what a blessing to know and have a relationship with Jesus! 🙏❤ I pray that we all hold tight to this word now and in 2021!
Blessings sent to the Lucado Family from Michigan on this beautiful snowy day!
Thank you Max Lucado from Berlin, Germany .
God bless! I soooo appreciate the Word you share.
Pray-work at hand
Insight
Wisdom to travel or not
My friend to have a job
My prayer warrior/shut-ins to have visitors
Coworkers immense blessings, clarity, peace, wisdom, energy
Family health
America see Savior
I have been enjoying your presentations every morning. Your story The Crippled Lamb touched my heart. I want to share it with my great grand daughters. Please pray for me to accept the changes in my life. Merry Christmas.
Please pray for my nephew he has become paralyzed and doctors say he may never walk again but I know God can change that. Merry Christmas
Yes he can, and he will!! Your faith in his healing will grant you your wish for a complete, and total recovery for him! Just sent a prayer your way.
God Bless🙏
Oh, dear God, I pray that you will touch this boy with your healing hand. I pray that he would have peace and hope in the middle of his trial. Strengthen him greatly!!!
Have mercy on him.
Thank you for what you will do!
Max, Thank you for all of your messages during this past year. They have been hopeful, instructive, & inspiring. May God continue to bless you and your family. I was privileged to meet you years ago when I was a student & you were a student at ACU. I look forward to heavens fellowship some day soon with God my Savior, friends, family, & saints. God bless! Glenn
Kindly pray for us. We are in hopeless state. We came from generations of non christian background. But God saved us .but now we are in tough times bacause of family . I cant share many things and how tough life is until God sets us free. But the greatest trouble is we dont have personal relationship with god to comfort , guide and lead us. Kindly pray for us to experience God and also God to show up in our situation. Pray for us nirmal, jesy, bena , saina, rashmi. Looking forward to share our testimony once God sets us free. Thank you your messages helped a lot.
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@@randydowell3902 Thank you
@@elizaj5758 Sure. Trough the really bad times now I know that I can be comforted and find the peace and love that only comes from Jesus. We can always find hope in Him.
God bless you and give you everything that you need to get through in faith in Him. He loves you so much.
@@randydowell3902 Thank you. May God meet you and comfort you also.
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Merry Christmas Pastor Max! God bless you and your loved ones. Jesus is so good. Let us all celebrate His birth and His coming to earth to save us all. Blessed be our glorious God and Savior forever and ever. Amen
Merry Christmas Blessings to all..thank you Pastor Max!
Thank you.🙏❤️🙏
Pray for my relationship with my son Brett and pray for supernatural finance abundance
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you’ve been a kind and humble servant/pastor through this outreach and I have prospered in learning more of Jesus through you in the past months....thank you, Max. Thanks for inspiring us to love our soon returning King even more and more. Blessed Christmas and may your new year be filled with faith, joy, and ever increasing understanding of His Word. May you and your family be blessed with good health. Lord, thank You for pouring tenderness and grace upon this man...grant him more wisdom to live in these darkening days.
Your lessons build my hope, thank you Pastor Max!!!
Bless you Pastor. Your storytelling g opens the spirit of Christ in such a special way. Truly anointed!
Merry Christmas Max! Hope you and your family had a wonderful celebration of our Savior’s birth! I’ve enjoyed listening to your msgs and words of encouragement over the past few months. Thanks for that.
Please Pray for me. I broke my left ankle last Friday on a roller skate accident. I’m having surgery to fix it on December 29.
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Praying for you
Merry Christmas. Your words are a blessing. Ty
Merry Christmas! My financial future is in jeopardy. I’m trying my best to hold everything together. Thank you for praying.
Dear God I pray that you would make a way where there is no way. God I pray that you would provide. God I pray that we would seek first the kingdom of God and you would add all these things to us. God I pray that you would protect his peace and his faith would increase. I pray we would have joy as we see you move in our lives. God sustain him. Thank you for what you will do!!!
Merry Christmas brother!
Praying for you
Merry Christmas everyone. Please help me praying for a miracle on muy Life from The Lord. I wait on Him. Blessings.
He entered His own creation as an embryo, or maybe just a fertilized egg. The Lord of Life!
Always a loving message. Thank you ❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank-You Max...!
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
A happy and holy Christmas to you Pastor Max and to your family and church. Thank you for your amazing Christmas message reminding us that our God came to us in a humble and unassuming package! Thank God for His priceless gift of love to us so simply given.
Bless you & your family 🎄🙏🏻🌟🕯❤️ Merry Christmas 🎁 Pray for my health that it would get strong so I can get back to my mission work for those in need 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Praying for you
Amen!! Merry Christmas 🎄
Please pray for the families of two of my dear friends Joe and Jolynn Reynolds who died within 10 days of each other. I also ask that you pray for another long time friend who’s health is failing and is hospitalized but cannot be visited by family or friends. Her name is Sharon Rhoads. I further ask that you pray for our country and it’s leaders that we can all find a way to resolve our differences and rise above the insanity that plagues our country and the world.
God bless you Pastor Max and yours.