WEEK 6: PREPARING FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Welcome to Week 6 in our Preparing for the Holidays series. If you’d like to read the introduction to the series, read Start Here: Preparing for the Holidays. Click here for Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, and Week 5.
Each week we’ll focus on two actions to center as we pray. Throughout this series, we’ll also focus on a passage from Colossians 3:12-17. You can read it in full at the end of the post.
Love + SERVICE
We’ve spent some time “being”, so now let us begin the work of doing. This busy season may have us moving and shuffling about constantly; but, I pray that we do so with great intention. So, let us begin by coming before the Holy Spirit, asking Him to guide and lead us through this season. Again, let’s pray to be filled with love and a desire to serve. A kind word to our neighbors on the street. Helping stack chairs after a service your church puts on. Asking your kid’s teacher what help they may need. Offering to clean the dishes after a holiday meal, etc.
Here are some questions to consider:
Ask the Holy Spirit...how do you want me to serve this season?
Now wait.
And listen.
Read below or listen to this passage and meditate on it.
“Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and dearly loved, put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a grievance against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you are also to forgive. Above all, put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. And let the peace of Christ, to which you were also called in one body, rule your hearts. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”
