Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room Quotes

“Waiting patiently for God to fulfill his promises is what it means to have faith. Putting faith in God’s promises is not something a person does only one time on the day he or she becomes a Christian. The essence of being a Christian is placing all our hope in God, knowing we can trust him to fulfill all his promises—even the ones that haven’t been fulfilled yet. We are willing to wait, trusting that “God’s way is perfect. All the LORD’s promises prove true” (Psalm 18:30).”
― Nancy Guthrie, Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room: Daily Family Devotions for Advent

“Sometimes we wonder why we aren’t happy, why we make sinful choices, why we feel distant from God. Often it’s because we have small thoughts about God and magnified thoughts of ourselves, our wants, our rights, our accomplishments.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room: Daily Family Devotions for Advent

“Who has asked you what you want for Christmas this year? Since we are asked this question from an early age, it is easy for Christmas to become all about getting rather than giving. Wouldn’t a better question to ask each other be, “What are you giving for Christmas?”
― Nancy Guthrie, Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room: Daily Family Devotions for Advent

“God chooses to use simple, ordinary things and people so that he is the one who gets all the glory.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room: Daily Family Devotions for Advent

“We find hope in the ancestry of Jesus that no matter what we’ve done or where we come from, we too can be included in Jesus’ family. Jesus does not look for people who are perfect and have never failed or made mistakes to be in his family. Instead, he is drawn toward people who recognize their failures and see their need for him.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room: Daily Family Devotions for Advent

“God knew when the time was just right to send Jesus, the Messiah, into the world. He knew when the exact religious, cultural, and political conditions were in place. Paul wrote, “When the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman” (Galatians 4:4, emphasis added). You see, God is not making up plans as he goes. All the grand events of God’s plan for our redemption have been scheduled in advance, from Creation to the enslavement and exodus of God’s people from Egypt; to David’s taking the throne in Israel; to the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus; to the day when Jesus will return. Paul said that God “has set a day for judging the world” (Acts 17:31). The course and timing of history is not a mystery to God. Time is in his hands, and he will bring about his plans and purposes in our world and in our lives right on time.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room: Daily Family Devotions for Advent

“Though it is hard to wait on God, and though it sometimes seems to us that God is slow, God’s timing is always perfect. He is never late. He always acts at just the right time.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room: Daily Family Devotions for Advent

“Today is a good day to look back, look forward, and look inward. We want to see ourselves and our lives as Christ sees us and be willing to face hard truths about ourselves. But more important than looking inward is looking upward to Christ. Looking to Christ gives us a goal to pursue, a person to enjoy, a passion to feed. Looking to Christ orients the direction of the coming year—and of our entire lives. Prayer As we look into the coming year, we’re pressing on, Lord Jesus. We have fixed our gaze on you and we long for you to become the one thing in our lives that everything else revolves around, the one thing everything else flows from.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room: Daily Family Devotions for Advent

“What began in a cradle made of wood culminated on a cross made of wood.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room: Daily Family Devotions for Advent

“Prayer Child of Bethlehem, we are grateful to know that you came to ordinary people in an ordinary place, because we are ordinary. May your glory shine bright in this ordinary place we call home.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room: Daily Family Devotions for Advent

“God has not left us on our own. Even though we have declared war on him deep in our hearts, he has declared peace with us. This friendship is made possible not because Jesus was born, but because Jesus would die.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room: Daily Family Devotions for Advent

“By putting our focus on giving to others and meeting their very real needs, we can battle the greed in our hearts. Christmas is a season not of getting, but of giving, because at Christmas we are celebrating that God is the most generous and outrageous Giver in the universe. After all, he gave us his Son. Proverbs says, “Some people are always greedy for more, but the godly love to give!” (Proverbs 21:26). To pour ourselves into becoming outrageous givers is to pursue becoming more like God. God turns greedy, grasping, fearful hoarders into generous, honest, cheerful givers.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room: Daily Family Devotions for Advent

“As December dawns, most families are busy putting Christmas programs and parties on the calendar, making holiday travel plans, and purchasing Christmas gifts. Those are all wonderful things, but if your family is anything like mine, these good things can squeeze out the best thing—nurturing a longing in our hearts and our homes for a fresh sense of wonder that God has come to us in Jesus. If we do not set aside time to focus together on what God’s Word tells us about the promise of Christ, on Christmas morning we can find ourselves surrounded by mounds of torn gift wrap, our laps full of presents, but with hearts that are empty and unprepared.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room: Daily Family Devotions for Advent