Hello, or better, let me say Merry Christmas!
Since this episode of Faith to Live Bible first post on Christmas Day 2024, I'm Pam
Christian, the host of this weekly podcast, where I seek to help us make sense out of
current events from a biblical and prophetic perspective, and with the way things have
been going since the November United States presidential election, we have a great deal
to consider and be in serious prayer about as God continues to direct world affairs.
I think this Christmas 2024 is going to prove to be a most unique Christmas, not necessarily
on December 25th, but the time around this special holiday.
Because of what God has been revealing since early 2020, because of the revelations of
evil and corruption the people of the world have come to realize they've been subjected
to.
And because of all God provided on that first Christmas, over 2024 years ago, I think Christmas
this year is uniquely charged by God.
God has been warning us for some time now that the enemy is still planning efforts to
seek global power and control.
The Bible is clear, the enemy seeks to change times and seasons, so why wouldn't the enemy
plan his attack during the Christmas holiday, when people are celebrating Jesus, the very
one the enemy opposes?
I am pre-recording this episode on December 15th, 10 days before Christmas.
It's possible that the global event, very onech spoke of as my guest recently, may have
already begun by the time this posts.
Additionally, previous guest, Pastor David Scarlett, has said he believed the United
States would experience a near-death event, which could mean we will be without both power
and communication.
However, God has prophesied to us to know when the time of darkness comes that it is
He who is at work in our behalf.
I'll look back in history and we'll find God does some of His greatest work in the midst
of darkness.
If you think about it, the point of Christ's conception in the womb of Virgin Mary took
place in darkness, consummating the greatest gift God could ever give mankind, the offer
of redemption, the hope of being restored into a right relationship with God the Father,
through faith in Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit for all eternity.
Based on that, let me ask you, with God having gone to such great lengths to secure our eternal
future, do you really fear?
Will He fail to secure our temporal realities?
How is it that we are able to trust God for our eternal future, but have fear and doubt
for our present-day circumstances?
Amanda Grace is my guest today, and we will actually talk about several different matters,
but the common theme in all is God's faithfulness that is best experienced by His faithful children.
It's true when God intervenes in the affairs of humanity the whole world including unbelievers
benefit, but those who benefit the most are those who have chosen to place themselves
in willing submission to God.
When you know God is love and ever faithful, is immutable and only in ever wanting what
is best for His children, it is easy to choose to willingly submit to Him.
And specific to this Christmas, I am confident in my spirit that God wants to bless His children
with Christmas miracles, miracles in world events, and personal miracles of various types
in individual lives.
I have shared that my husband and I are personally enduring one of the greatest tasks of faith
ever, with our grown daughter being in ICU on advanced life support since December 2.
We are drawing on every ounce of faith, standing on the promises of God written in the Bible,
and the promises that have been prophetically spoken over us, for our daughter's miraculous
healing and deliverance.
Because the enemy of God has been forced to realize he is losing his power and control
in the world, he is desperately trying everything he can to keep from losing.
For this reason, I suspect many of you listening to this podcast are personally enduring something
horrendous in addition to all that's going on in the world.
I am imploring you not to give in.
Give up or doubt.
This is a time to take your stand with God for what looks impossible to us, with faith
knowing with God nothing is impossible.
A long time ago I heard myself say, any time we give up on anything, we are giving up on
God.
People have quoted me on that, putting a greater demand on me to practice what I preach, which
is actually a good thing.
I've held out, believing God for miracles in the past, and God has not let me down.
The life of our son at birth is one such example, yet I have many others.
My guest today, Amanda Grace, is herself a walking miracle, as is her husband, Chris.
Amanda was wheelchair bound when her husband, Chris, cared for her until she was miraculously
healed.
Following, Chris experienced a traumatic brain injury and Amanda now cares for him.
Chris has miraculously recovered far beyond what the doctors expected and we continue
to believe for his full recovery.
As you listen to our conversation, keep in mind the faithfulness of God and lift up to
the Lord the different areas in your life and in the world where you would like to see
God's miraculous intervention.
Here's my conversation with Amanda Grace.
Amanda Grace, what a very special time of year to have you on this program at Christmas
and New Year.
I'm just so grateful that you're available and that you will help me with my audience
close out 2025 with our focus on Jesus Christ.
Welcome, welcome back.
Thank you, thank you, glad to be here.
Yeah, around this time of year, it's wonderful.
Absolutely.
Now, let's talk about this time of year, Christmas.
We know Jesus wasn't born on Christmas.
We have a lot of people who have been giving you a bad time, apparently, for a Christmas
tree that you have, which is in the frame of your pictures whenever you're doing your
videos.
And that is just not what we want, is it?
We don't want to go down this road of legalism.
Let's talk about that a little bit.
That's interesting because the tree I have in my office, it doesn't even have ornaments
on it, and it's up till March.
So I don't put trees up just for, I keep them up all winter because that is the only
blessed green thing outside of my home in New York, and I'm being very serious about
that.
So I decorate for the season.
So what's outside?
I bring inside.
And the light on the trees adds light into the home.
I like light.
I don't like darkness, especially in the winter when it gets dark at 4.30 here in New
York.
So we like to bring that in.
And I'll tell people this.
Jeremiah 10 is not about a Christmas tree.
I have heard this argument many times.
Jeremiah 10 is about a carved wooden idol of Baal Mollach or the other false gods they
used to worship that is cast then in gold or silver, put in their homes or on a high
place and prayed to and sacrificed to.
That's what Jeremiah is speaking about.
You know, when I tell people, you complain about Christmas trees, but the origin of the
birthday cake came from Greece where they would make a cake, put candles and it prayed
to the gods on Mount Olympus to give that person a favorable year, blow out the candles.
Now that's what we do today, but that's the origins of the birthday cake, as well as,
you know, people don't have an issue using microwaves and Levi's jeans, but they're
nowhere in scripture either.
So you know, we have to use wisdom and discernment, how we approach these things.
You can't yell about a tree, but then you're okay with everything like Valentine's Day
and all these other things that go on.
So we have to understand that and we have to understand that we should be celebrating
Jesus's birth every day and his death and resurrection for what he did because it was
the most enormous gift humanity could ever receive.
And we know he was either born around the time of Passover, around the time of Rosh Hashanah,
and by the time the wise men got to him, he was about two years old.
So he wasn't a little, he wasn't a newborn by the time the wise men got to him.
That's why Herod said, everybody to and under the males I want to kill because that gives
you the context of the timeframe.
But this is a time of year two where people are just very giving and generous, right?
And you can feel it.
You know, people just want to be generous and be a blessing.
And yes, yes, you know, of course, corporate America has over commercialized it and done
all these things to it.
But that doesn't mean we have to, you know, I understand Black Friday and Cyber Monday
deals are amazing.
Don't get me wrong.
You know, but, and they're wonderful.
But you know, the context of it too is to be a cheerful giver and really shine the light
of God into those dark places.
And I think, Amanda, this particular year, Christmas of 2024, given everything the world
has experienced over the past four plus years, the amount of corruption and evil that has
surfaced, that God has revealed because God wants to deal with it.
He wants us to see him deal with it.
When people having hope restored this year, unlike years past, I think there's a lot more
generosity, a lot more deeper contemplations about Jesus and God and what this season really
means, don't you?
Yes.
I truly believe that, you know, and especially with what just happened in the nation, you
know, we should be praising God for this enormous early Christmas present that we have
gotten in this nation with this incredibly biblical election that has just happened.
We should be praising the Lord for that right now during this time of year.
Absolutely.
Now, speaking of the election, there's been a lot of activity for President Trump-elect
with all that he's doing before he's ever been inaugurated, before it's ever been certified.
I don't remember ever seeing this kind of activity from a president yet to be inaugurated.
What do you make of all of this?
I mean, I've got some opinions, but I'm not on the inner circle.
I don't really know.
What do you make of it from a spiritual perspective?
Well, you know, he has hit the ground running before he's ever been inaugurated, which is
amazing.
It's a great, that's a great example, right, to the American people.
You know, I will say this from a spiritual perspective, right?
I have heard President Trump say more than once, well, people have said that my life was
spared for, you know, this purpose.
And that's all well and good, but we have to stop that at that point with all due respect.
Mr. President, God gave you the election and God spared your life.
It's not people have said.
It is the evidence of it.
And what have just happened that has to be ratified through your mouth.
So we, you know, we have to understand at some point that we have to stop with people
say, and I know God spared my life for a purpose.
I know the Lord gave me this, you know, and that's not the easiest thing for an alpha male
to do.
And God normally takes them through a process in order for them to be able to come to that
point.
So we just have to pray for him with that too, because the fear of the Lord filled him when
he hit the ground at Butler, Pennsylvania, that's what that's what filled him, which
is the beginning of wisdom.
That is what makes the room for the Raqqaqaqa desh, the Holy Spirit to come in and fill
that person at the appointed time.
God has spoken through you and other prophets about concern for some of the people who are
part of Trump's inner circle, that they may not be on the up and up, they may be ill advising
him for their own plans, evil plans.
And I've been very concerned about that.
I've asked my audience members to pray that only those proved by God will actually be
working with President Trump.
What about you?
What has the Lord said to you about some of these appointees that President Trump is
announcing?
You know, in a time of transition, right, there is a sifting and a shake up first before
transition and we're seeing that to a degree.
But I believe based on words the Lord has had me put out, right, that within the first
three months, you are going to see God sift these appointments.
And you're going to see Almighty God sift these appointments because you have some broken
people being appointed to positions who also have a dangerous combination of being intellectuals.
And broken and intellectuals can make messes very fast because they can be influenced
by the kingdom of darkness easily because intellectuals have a very hard time wrapping
their head around who God is and faith.
The evidence of things not seeing the substance of things hoped for, right?
They have a very hard time with that because they have to, you know, they are visionaries
to a degree, right?
But they have a very hard time with the concept of faith and God and who he is without over
intellectualizing him into a box.
You know, that's first of all.
And secondly, you can't appoint intellectuals when the root of the problem is spiritual
and moral.
Because what they will try to do is apply a fleshly solution to a spiritual moral problem
and that's when it spirals.
That's when it begins to grow even more like a ragweed.
That's when it begins even more to spiral out of control and become an even bigger mess
because you are literally, what they do is they feed it.
They don't kill it.
You know, they feed the root.
They don't twist and pull that root out.
And that takes the spiritual working in conjunction with that.
That takes legal spiritual laws and the covenant we have through Jesus Christ and understanding
the Word of God and understanding these spiritual laws to go after the root.
All you will do is add fertilizer to the root as an intellectual of a problem like that.
This is why, now we say, you know, nobody's perfect.
So we see it in the church too, but this is why with many of these intellectuals, you
see their life, their personal lives are an absolute train wreck.
Because there's no foundation of who created, right?
Marriage, who created morality, you know, who was the creator.
The foundation isn't there.
So their personal lives are on quicksand.
And that eventually will spill over into applying it in their jobs.
So that's where it gets difficult.
Now does God call somebody?
Yeah, Cyrus was called by God.
And I don't know if he was totally aware he was called by God.
There were others that were not believers necessarily in scripture that God used because
God can use anybody he wants.
So some of these truly may be appointed there by God and God may work on them over time.
Others, it is a perfect storm beginning to form that will cause thunderous chaos within
the administration if the Lord doesn't rectify it.
You know, Amanda, I've talked to my audience a lot about the condition the world is in
being the fault of the believers for not obeying God, not remaining close to God.
And I think that that's precisely what we see in the Old Testament again and again and
again, God's people say, oh yes, we'll serve you, Lord, and they fall away.
And then, oh yes, we'll serve you, Lord, and they fall away.
And it's the same thing that we've been living through.
And I think for that reason, the Lord wrote in the Bible, 1 Peter 4, 17, judgment begins
with the house of the Lord.
I mean, we're talking about these people who are appointed by Trump that need to be sifted
out, but it doesn't start there.
It starts with the church.
Let's start with the church.
God is very clear about that.
If we want God to judge nations and our enemies and enemies of America, then judgment first
begins in the house of God.
So what you see right now is you see a parallel happening.
What is happening in the political is happening in the church.
What is happening in the church is happening in the political.
They're running parallel.
We just watched this, this Saul David, right, parallel play out in the political and it
literally went right into the church without missing out a beat because it's running parallel
right now.
And we have to recognize that as the church and vice versa, what happens in the church,
you're going to see similar scandals break out in the political because at the root,
it's the same issue.
You see, God is dealing with the same root that has offshoots, right, into the political
and into the church, but it's the same root.
So he's going after truly the root of the issue, which truly is the same for these two
areas and that's why they're running parallel.
Amanda, I know you've had several, at least two prayer meetings for the Trump family and
the extended people around them.
Do you also have their ear in any way directly?
I mean, I have where I can message their assistance.
We have mutual friends in common with some of us.
I can always, if I had to, I guess use that avenue to get a message, you know, so I can
do it that way.
I am praying and just kind of trying to submit to the Lord in that into where he may want
me in all of that because God makes a way.
So, you know, and we've done the three nights of prayer for them and it has been amazing
and Eric Trump has been a part of that.
Eric Trump has also been a part of some of the nights of prayer.
Alina Habba has been a part of some of the nights of prayer.
We've had other amazing people, you know, on in ministry and in the political, you know,
Roger Stone is another one that's been a part of it.
The Dr. Lance Wall now has been a part of it as well.
And so we've had, you know, quite a few amazing people, you know, Robin Bullock also has been
a part of it.
So we, you know, come together and there you go.
There's the parallel again, the church and the political coming together.
And for that, why?
Because at the root, it's the same.
God is dealing with the same issue.
So I'm praying about that and I'm trusting the Lord that if the Lord wants me there,
you know, now is God opening certain doors?
Well, yes, he is because let me see.
Friday, I want to give you the appropriate date.
Today is Thursday, right?
So Friday, December 6th, I was invited to go down to the UN by the Israeli ambassador.
And I've been given permission to talk about this publicly, otherwise I would never.
By the Israeli ambassador to the UN, Danny Dannen and his advisor, Aviv Ayesh, invited
me because he was appointed to the UN again to come down and have a meeting and to be
shown the inner workings of the UN.
So I went, I anointed my feet and I anointed my hands because I said, everywhere I walk
in that place, Lord is going to be anointed.
And I, and you know, the Lord made it clear for me to do that.
So we went down, me and Chris, and we had the meeting and he wants to get me involved
with certain things with the UN.
And I thought, well, guess what?
Someone's got to go be a light in a dark place there because when you walk in, your
spirit goes, yuck!
Like that's what your spirit does when you walk into the UN, you know, you're seriously
sensitive, you're like, ooh!
You know?
So, but they're lovely.
Danny Dannen and Aviv and Eden who came out and got us, even their lovely people.
And so we had a very nice meeting and we talked about my involvement and we're going to be
going down there for certain things when called upon because the disciples went into the highways
and the byways and areas that were not favorable.
Right.
You see, somehow in the Western church, we've gotten the idea that we are only supposed to
go into areas that are favorable.
And if you look at scripture, Daniel, Esther, Joseph, look at the positions they were placed
in and areas that were not favorable to Jews.
So God will send us into those areas because when we're sent in, it begins to affect change
in the realm of the spirit, which brings forth change in the natural.
So we have to understand as believers in this time, God is going to send us into areas that,
you know, the church may see as not favorable, that people that have a very superficial mindset
will be, you know, why are they even going to that?
You know, that's not godly or that's not, no, because God has to send us in there on
assignment to affect change.
And we have to understand that this is the season to do this.
God has given us a window of grace.
We're in the year 5785.
It's flanked by fives, which has to do great with grace and behold an announcement.
It's the Hebrew letter.
Hey, that's what it sounds like in Hebrew.
Hey, like, hi, behold an announcement, you know, so, but we've given a window with this
and God is going to send us into these areas.
You know, people go to the UN is evil.
Well, so was King Nebuchadnezzar's court.
So was Pharaoh's court.
So was what King Hasweras and Amen were doing all dark, but God sent his servants in to
affect change.
And so at that, I see the Lord beginning to open doors like that.
And I'm willing to, I'm willing to do it.
It's not easy, you know, but I'm like, Lord, if that's where you're going to send me, I'm
willing to go.
And that's what we have to be in this time.
Lord, if you're sending me into that, I'm willing to go.
And, you know, getting back to what we were talking with judgment beginning with the house
of the Lord, a very prudent place for every one of us, each one of us who are listening
right now is to begin with our prayers in the presence of the Lord, doors closed and
asked the Lord to examine our hearts, find out if there's any wicked way in me, let us
be repented, let us be in position that the Lord can send us at a moment's notice that
there would be nothing standing in our way of being able to say yes and being effective
for God's kingdom purposes.
Amen to that, you know, and in order for us to be effective, and I'll tell you many times
before broadcasts, before I go on interviews, not only do I take communion to get my heart
posture correct before the Lord, but I say, create me Psalm 51, created me a clean heart
of God, renew a steadfast spirit within me, cast me not away from thy presence, O Lord,
take not thy Holy Spirit from me, restore unto me the joy of your salvation and renew
a steadfast spirit within me, because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks,
we constantly have to be cleansing that and checking ourselves and asking the Lord to
examine us and what is unrighteous in us to cleanse.
Because we're fallen, we're fallen, I mean, praise God, we have a Savior, Jesus Christ
that we have a covenant with Almighty God through, because the flesh is at enmity with
God.
Absolutely, and all the more reason for us to reflect on what this Christmas season really
is about and what it really means and the gift, the extraordinary gift that God personally
gave to each and every one of us.
You kind of wrap this up, I've been looking at Christmas this year especially, as it being
very, very meaningful uniquely as it, I don't think it has been ever in my lifetime been
this way.
And it's because of the strong presence of the political, the government and the government
is on Christ's shoulders.
I mean, there's a great tension, but there's also such hope before us right now.
And I know even Kim Clement spoke of happy Christmas after a hypnotic November and a
strange July.
Well, we've certainly had those.
So I'm looking forward to a happy Christmas.
What would you like to say to encourage my listeners on this Christmas day when this
podcast first posts?
You know, be willing to serve not only around this time of year, but throughout the year.
You know, there's a lot of people, this time of year too is a very sad time of year for
them.
They don't have families or, you know, there are things going on.
You know what?
Look beyond yourself and look to go serve somebody else during this time.
You know, some, you know, whatever it is, whether you're going to a soup kitchen, whether
you want to go to, you know, a retirement home, a nursing home and be a blessing to
those individuals, whether you want to go, you know, to where orphans are, where people
in your neighborhood that are shut ins, be, you know, worry about serving that, that will
fill that void that is there.
That will begin to fill it because when we get introspective about our loneliness, that's
when the enemy really can get us about that.
And you know, you're never alone when you have Almighty God.
He's always there.
He is always there for you to talk to.
He is always there.
He takes orphans and he puts them in families.
He takes those that have been displaced and he puts them in families.
And so, you know, remember that this time of year to serve and to give and to look beyond
yourself in the midst of this, because we are called to be servants.
We are called to be salt and light.
And around this time of year right now with everything that is happening, right, in the
nation, we should, we should be steadfast in preaching the good news that Jesus Christ
was born to this earth of a virgin and that he died a Calvary and he purchased us by the
shedding of his blood.
And it was one of, it was the most immense gift humanity could ever receive, which is
the gift of eternal life.
So you have already received the greatest gift you will ever receive in any Christmas,
in any holiday, in any time of year.
And that is the gift of salvation, right?
So that focus on that this Christmas.
I encourage the cabinet too of the Trump administration to think, to think upon that
right now in the midst of the window of grace that we've been given.
Good words, Amanda.
I want to say Merry Christmas to you and Christmas.
Everybody at Arca Grace.
Thank you.
And I look forward to talking with you more next week on New Year's Day.
Thank you, Pam.
God bless your family.
Thank you.
Amanda had told me how people have expressed upset with her having a Christmas tree in
her office.
And while what we call a Christmas tree today had its origin in pagan practices, I would
ask people to recognize the progress that Christians have made by redeeming pagan practices.
As she said, the birthday cake had pagan origin, but it's no longer being used as it once was.
The whole point of Christianity, which began with the birth of Christ, the promised Redeemer,
is to take back, is to redeem all areas the enemy of God has stolen.
Wherever there are pagan faults God's worshiped and rituals practiced, for Christians to
take it over is a good thing.
Amanda also spoke of the importance of our words.
The words we speak have the power of life and death, blessings and cursings.
Her critique of Donald Trump, who has been known to say more than once, quote, people
say God spared my life for this or that, well he needs to personalize God's redemption
of him and say, God spared my life for his purposes and in gratitude Donald Trump needs
to be willing to live his life according to God's revealed purpose.
The best way for any of us to express gratitude to God for all he's done is to live our lives
for him, to live according to his purposes.
My husband and I have several situations where we chose to be deliberate with our words so
we could be in position to receive God's miraculous intervention.
One was when the doctors diagnosed my husband with colon cancer.
We never said, quote, David has cancer, end quote.
We would say the doctors say he has cancer and we spent the time he was in treatment
and surgery proclaiming God's promises of healing, decreeing and declaring what God
says he wants for his children.
And in David's case, God sent him through surgery and the doctors found the cancer
completely encapsulated and very easily removed.
To this day, David is cancer free.
You know, when I started this podcast, it was in part out of frustration for not seeing
more miracles among the body of Christ.
Jesus said we would do greater works than he did, but in my lifetime and experience,
it seemed the church or the ecclesia was producing less and less miracles.
I know the Bible says even Jesus couldn't do miracles where he was met with unbelief.
And with the increase of evil all around the world, even including the church, I could
see why we weren't doing more miracles than Jesus.
But I didn't understand why God wasn't intervening with major outbreaks of revival to redeem
the times.
If it breaks my heart to see people suffering and not living the victorious life Christ
died to give us, imagine how it breaks God's.
Well, not only has God been intervening these past four plus years, he is cleaning up and
clearing out, calling his people to repentance so that his miracle working power is not only
evident, but not a single person will be able to take credit for what he does.
Everyone will agree it could only be God.
As Amanda said, this is a time of major transition, not only in our governments, but in the church.
There is a parallel of exposing and tearing down evil wherever it exists, in both the
church or better state of the ecclesia, and government or politics.
Not only is God exposing and clearing out evil, he is calling and positioning righteous
men and women into positions of leadership and influence.
I have many times asked you to consider what God is calling you to do.
Each of the seven mountains of influence need to have righteous men and women in place to
advance God's kingdom will.
We have already experienced what comes of a society when God is removed, and clearly
the majority of people in the world do not want our world to remain in the corrupt and
oppressive condition it is in.
Yes, God is answering our prayers, but as Amanda expressed, it is essential that God's
people serve and work consistent with God's will if we want to experience the fullness
of God's promises.
Amanda touched on the fact for many, Christmas is a difficult time of year because of various
losses, and her recommendation to get involved by serving others is excellent advice.
People who have something greater than themselves to live for are those who will always experience
joy.
While I hope each of us discover our passions and our God intended purpose in life allowing
us to identify where, what, and who we can help advance, it is my prayer that every person
who hears this podcast is aligned with the greatest purpose of all, which is the gospel
of Jesus Christ.
When Jesus becomes our first love, when being rightly related with God the Father through
faith in Jesus is our highest aim, when obedience to the Holy Spirit is our deepest desire,
then and only then do we live the glorious life God wants for his children.
I know what I'm talking about because I lived the first nearly 30 years of my life for myself.
Oh, I thought I was a Christian because I said the prayer for Jesus to be my forever
friend when I was a little girl.
I thought that prayer was my ticket to heaven when I died.
In reality, I lived wanting Jesus to be the savior of my eternal life while I wanted to
remain Lord of my earthly existence and that belief system produces nothing of God, nothing
of any lasting good.
It wasn't until the life I'd made came crashing down on me when I genuinely called out to God
that I found a true personal fulfillment that nothing on earth can compare or compete with.
From that moment, when I wanted God to be Lord of my life because I'd proven on my own
all I could do was make a mess of my life, I have enjoyed the greatest purpose and genuine
lasting fulfillment and there has been no desire to ever return to my former ways.
I willingly surrendered my whole life to Jesus and was joined in everlasting love with God
the Father by the power of the Holy Spirit in my living room just before Christmas in 1984.
That was the first time I'd actually experienced everything God wants for us beginning with
Christmas and into eternity.
I sincerely hope you have already received the greatest gift anyone could possibly receive
and I hope you understand the best way for you to express your gratitude is to give what
you can to others, to bless them in Jesus' name.
If however you realize you are not 100% committed to Jesus as your Savior and Lord, why not
let this Christmas be the first time you actually experience everything God wants for you.
It is as simple as speaking directly to Jesus, letting him know you don't want to be estranged
from him any longer and you want to be in the family of God, that you want to be free
from a life of sin and separation by receiving Christ's gift of redemption.
That's it and when you say words to that effect from your heart, you will be eternally transformed
with a new purpose, hope and joy in this life and for all eternity.
And with that, the only thing I have left to say is Merry Christmas.
Next week Amanda Grace will again be my guest as she shares some of what she sees in our
future with the new year 2025.
Now I ask you to please listen to my closing announcements and to take advantage of the
many goods and services I bring you in an effort to at least cover the costs of this
podcast.
It may seem far off, but most people make plans for a significant vacation about a year in
advance.
So if you haven't already expressed interest in traveling with us in October 2025, now
is the time to do so.
We want to have about 30 people total because this size group works best for the specific
tour I have in mind.
You'll be walking the footsteps of the Apostle Paul.
I'm using the time between now and February 2025 to determine if we have enough interest
and the trend indicates we definitely should.
We have just about 30 people on the list now, but I'd like to have more because when it
comes to the actual day of making a commitment, things could have changed and I want to be
able to have at least 30 actually attend the tour.
So if you think you'd like to be part of the Faith to Live by Christian tour with me in
Greece during October 2025, now is the time to get your name and number in your party
on the list.
There's no obligation at this point.
You're just expressing your interest.
While the specific details are subject to change, as it stands now, the week-long tour
will include four nights at Devani Palace Acropolis Hotel in Athens, which includes breakfast,
one night at Amelia Hotel in Delphi, which includes breakfast, one night at Grand Meteora
Hotel in Kalambaka with breakfast, two nights at Mediterranean Palace Hotel in Thessaloniki,
that includes breakfast, two dinners at local restaurants, tour guide throughout, deluxe
coach throughout, admissions to museums and sites, tips to guides, drivers and restaurants
and all local taxes.
Estimated cost per person double occupancy room is about $3,000.
Attendees need to arrange their own air travel to and from the Athens International Airport.
To get your name on the list, send an email to faithtolivby at Pamelachristianministries.com
with the word Greece in the subject line.
In the body of the email, provide your name, contact information and number of people you
expect to be in your party.
This will place your name on the interested in attending list, but does not obligate you
in any way.
It merely assures you have first right of refusal come February 2025 when down payments
are due.
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Until next week, I'm Pam Christian, asking you to remember, Christ died for us, the
least we can do is live for him.