Dear Friend,

With a very grateful heart, I’m writing this letter. I appreciate the faithful friends who have stuck by me through many trials in my life. I get phone calls or emails time to time from people telling me how the Lord laid me on their heart and they began praying for me. I’m sure there are also people praying that I don’t even know about, just like I know there are people who pray for you and never tell you. The Lord is good and He is faithful, amen.

The Apostle Paul mentioned prayer a lot in his epistles. Second Timothy 1:3 is just one example. In it, Paul says: I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day. In the same way Paul prayed for his spiritual son Timothy, I ask the Lord to bless and inspire us so that we can draw closer to Him and can help Him free the oppressed and hurting people in the world.

Already I am teaching my youngest grandson Levi to pray. I hurt my back recently, and when Levi understood I was in pain, he said, “It hurt, mom.” I told him that my back would feel better if he prayed for it, so Levi stood up in his crib and put his little hand on my back and said, “Jesus, amen.”

I’m smiling because Levi is learning that Jesus is our Answer. What a treasure my grandson is—that childlike faith is wonderful. I am so blessed to have this boy in my life.

Most of my children will be here with me for Thanksgiving. We live so far apart that it will be wonderful to have them here. This is the time of year we’re reminded to be thankful for what we’ve been blessed with, and the greatest blessing of all is salvation.

I really want to encourage you to search your heart and ask the Lord to reveal to you what steps you need to take to let go of anything that could hinder your walk with Him. I started asking the Lord what He wanted me to do, and for me, it was spending more time in worship and praying in the Holy Ghost. Now we shut everything off after Levi has had his bath and we pray and worship together as a family. I’ve also asked the Lord to help me be quicker to forgive and to let go of wrongs that are done, just like Ephesians 4:31,32 says:

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

 

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

I am refusing to let Satan control or dictate to me what I do. Praise God! All of Satan’s crops will fail.

I hope you have a blessed Thanksgiving Day holiday with family and friends. Let the love of God shine so that they will all want what you have—which is Jesus!

In His love,

Donner Roberson