This blog post is Part 3 in the series Christmas 2010 on our Christmas experience.
Overall, the experience of giving prophetic words to my family for Christmas went very well I think. The night before we gave each other gifts I was in a discussion with my brother, sister, and her husband. As we were talking about what was going on in our lives and what was coming next I started to get excited about what I was hearing. The very things that we were talking about were the very things that I had gotten prophetically for each of them. As I started to ask more pointed questions my sister remembered that I had told her about my gift idea a while ago and she was very anxious to hear hers. Since this seemed like the perfect time to go over some things in a much smaller setting, I decided I would give my sister and her husband, and my brother their gift that night.
Giving a few people their words before everyone else really gave me a confidence boost. When I was able to share what I had received it really touch my brother, he said that as I read the word to him he could feel the anointing on it! Then my sister and her husband both said that specific things I had said ministered to them directly! It was really awesome hearing them say that the words I had gotten for them were accurate AND meaningful to them! This gave me a lot of confidence going into the next day, to share with the rest of my family who didn't know what was going to happen.
After getting all the kids into bed and reading the background of what I wanted to do (along with scripture verses to go along with it) I was ready to read the rest of the family their prophetic words. Before I started reading their word out loud, I gave everyone the opportunity to have theirs read privately instead. As I re-read the 3 from the night before, I could feel the anointing on the words again as well. However, after the first 3 I was so focused on reading correctly (and in an hurried manor so I could finish before the kids woke up) I became less sensitive to what I was reading. This went on for the next several people. However, when I came to the last person, the last prophetic word to read out loud, I stopped and told everyone that the word that I was going to read for my dad was possibly one of the most powerful (even though it was the shortest in length).
What happened next was difficult to explain, as well as completely unexpected! As I read the first paragraph of my dad's word it was similar to the first three that I read. I could feel the anointing, but it wasn't overwhelming. The next paragraph I read was overwhelming! I couldn't even get half way through the paragraph without welling up inside with emotion. I could really feel God's heart for my dad as I read his prophecy to him! The more I read the more overwhelming it became, to the point were I had to stop reading completely because I couldn't get through it. I was balling my eyes out and couldn't help it. As I would attempt to look at a word and start to read the emotions would completely overcome me again. Every time I tried to read I was overcome. Finally as I was able to put myself together a little bit, I was able to read quickly through the rest of the second paragraph before losing it again. Eventually I was able to make it through the third paragraph as well.
Of course the entire time I was reading my dad's prophecy to him I was stammering on about how 'I never do this', 'I don't know what's happening' and so forth. However, when I got to the end I said, 'WOW, that was really powerful!' and my dad said, 'It was powerful.'.
Overall this Christmas was really powerful. In addition to the prophecies, we gave my parents paper's that said how we loved them, what we would give them if we had 1 million dollars, or memories that we had of them. After we gathered up all the papers we put them in a binder in clear plastic protectors. Christmas this year was so powerful, and not focused on consumerism and the like, that I don't think it's a Christmas that anyone can ever forget. I know I won't.
To read more about our Christmas 2010 experience, click on: Part 4 – The Drive
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