Friends, welcome back, a very Merry Christmas tide to you all.

Wherever you are this week, whatever you're doing,

whenever it is you pick up this podcast,

John Eldridge here.

And we have a special podcast for you this week.

We felt that in this crazy busy time of year with so much going

on and so much coming at you, what we really wanted to do was to pray for you and speak a blessing over your life this

week. So what we've done is invited a number of the staff in, not the whole staff, but a number of the staff in,

to share either a prayer or a blessing with you this week.

And so I think you are really going to enjoy this.

Sit back and receive it and take it in.

Hi everyone, Merry Christmas. This is Jamie Gowdy. For those of you who may not

know me, I am John and Stacy's assistant. Thank you for journeying with

Ransom Heart through the podcast in all the many various ways you may journey with us.

This is my Christmas blessing for you.

May the season hold a deepening hope of the return of Jesus. May you find strength in the

waiting and may your heart be stirred to cry out in earnest for his return.

Merry Christmas, everyone. Hello, this is Bart Hanson, and my blessing to you comes from a Christmas Carol that was written some 230 years ago in New

England by Lowell Mason.

But the music inspiration came years before from the German composer George Frederick Heindel.

So let's saturate our hearts again with these familiar words

and that at the end of this I'll have a little surprise for you as I drug my

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