Merry Christmas and a Wonderful 2017 in advance (last daily encouragement of the year)

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord. This is the last daily encouragement for this year. We thank God for a great year so far, and for bringing us to the last month of the year. There is so much to be thankful to God for – salvation, deliverance, protection, provision, for counting as His children. We thank God for the trying of our faith that has been more precious than gold. We are also grateful to God for His Holy Spirit that has been with us thus far. As the year draws to an end, my prayer is that “…  the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people, and His incomparably great power for us who believe….” Ephesians 1v17-19 (NIV). I pray too to the Father from Ephesians 3v16-19 (NIV) that “out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,  to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.” I wish you a great Christmas and a wonderful 2017 in advance.