Christmas Eve Cup for you and yours!

Hi Dewey,

What I initially heard the Lord say to me concerning you and your ministry a few days ago was very simple, you’re going to find yourself in very high demand in 2014.  I would like to expand on that some more.  The Lord has given me a prophetic gift which a lot of Christians can be very skeptical about.  However, the prophetic is nothing to be nervous or skeptical about.  It’s not weird, it’s not mystical, it’s simply God speaking through one person to another.  Sometimes our own minds can get clouded and we don’t hear God clearly and it takes God speaking through someone else.  Sometimes we hear perfectly clear but we need confirmation and affirmation and God sometimes uses others by speaking a word through them for someone else.

As I was in prayer tonight this is what the Lord shared with me concerning you and FGGAM. “The Lord says 2014 is going to be a year of high demand.  I’m going to pull you out from behind the curtain and expose you to a world that needs Me.  I am in search of men and women of God who will be witnesses for me.  Who will preach the love and grace of God.  I need ministries that will reach out to a hurting and dying world.  So I am removing the curtain that has kept you hidden in certain parts of this nation and this world.  Your territory is going to expand. You’re going to find more and more people coming in contact with this ministry.  Some people will reach out because they are hurting, some will reach out because they want to connect their ministry with yours.  The Lord says I’m going to use your ministry as a networking hub where other ministries can connect and as they do it will connect their ministries to other parts of the world.  I’m going to use you to father many for there are many hurting that need a spiritual dad and I have called you to be that dad.  You ask, “Why did you choose me, Lord?”  I chose you because your heart is and has always been to do nothing but My will.  Now, 2014 is time to start reaping the rewards of your obedience, integrity, and hard work.  Just as you will become in high demand to others I also am going to ask more of you.  What you are stepping into is going to require you to spend more time with me.  You need to seek my face like never before.  As you seek my face I will release strategy for your ministry, I will release strength and power and peace like you’ve never experienced.  Set aside the month of January as a time to seek my face and hear the strategy I have for you and your ministry.  You have sowed and sowed and sowed and now it’s time to reap, reap, reap.  2014 is your year to become noticed.  By the end of the year For God’s Glory Alone Ministries will be a ministry known across this nation, says the Lord.”

Steve

The True Story of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

A man named Bob May, depressed and brokenhearted, stared out
his drafty apartment window into the chilling December
night. His 4-year-old daughter Barbara sat on his lap
quietly sobbing. Bob’s wife, Evelyn, was dying of cancer.
Little Barbara couldn’t understand why her mommy could never
come home. Barbara looked up into her dad’s eyes and asked,
“Why isn’t Mommy just like everybody else’s Mommy?” Bob’s
jaw tightened and his eyes welled with tears. Her question
brought waves of grief, but also of anger. It had been the
story of Bob’s life. Life always had to be different for Bob.
Small when he was a kid, Bob was often bullied
by other boys. He was too little at the time to compete in
sports. He was often called names he’d rather not remember.
From childhood, Bob was different and never seemed to fit
in. Bob did complete college, married his loving wife and
was grateful to get his job as a copywriter at Montgomery
Ward during the Great Depression. Then he was blessed with
his little girl. But it was all short-lived. Evelyn’s bout
with cancer stripped them of all their savings and now Bob
and his daughter were forced to live in a two-room apartment
in the Chicago slums. Evelyn died just days before Christmas
in 1938.
Bob struggled to give hope to his child, for
whom he couldn’t even afford to buy a Christmas gift. But if
he couldn’t buy a gift, he was determined to make one – a
storybook! Bob had created an animal character in his own
mind and told the animal’s story to little Barbara to give
her comfort and hope. Again and again Bob told the story,
embellishing it more with each telling. Who was the
character? What was the story all about? The story Bob May
created was his own autobiography in fable form. The
character he created was a misfit outcast like he was. The
name of the character? A little reindeer named Rudolph, with
a big shiny nose. Bob finished the book just in time to give
it to his little girl on Christmas Day. But the story
doesn’t end there.
The general manager of Montgomery Ward caught wind of the
little storybook and offered Bob May a nominal fee to purchase
the rights to print the book. Wards went on to
print, “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and
distribute it to children visiting Santa Claus in their
stores. By 1946 Wards had printed and distributed more than
six million copies of Rudolph. That same year, a major
publisher wanted to purchase the rights from Wards to print
an updated version of the book.
In an unprecedented gesture of kindness, the CEO of Wards
returned all rights back to Bob May. The book became a best
seller. Many toy and marketing deals followed and Bob May, now
remarried with a growing family, became wealthy from the story
he created to comfort his grieving daughter. But the story doesn’t
end there either.
Bob’s brother-in-law, Johnny Marks, made a song adaptation to Rudolph.
Though the song was turned down by such popular
vocalists as Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore , it was recorded by
the singing cowboy, Gene Autry. “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed
Reindeer” was released in 1949 and became a phenomenal
success, selling more records than any other Christmas song,
with the exception of “White Christmas.”
The gift of love that Bob May created for his daughter so long ago
kept on returning back to bless him again and again. And Bob
May learned the lesson, just like his dear friend Rudolph, that
being different isn’t so bad. In fact, being different can be a blessing.
MERRY CHRISTMAS