Monday, January 5, 2009

Happy New Year,
I hope you have started your New Year with renewed comittment to the Lord, 2008 is behind us, I hope it was a good year for you but for many it may have been a difficult year; But now we have a new year and it can be a new start with our lives, many have made New Year resolutions and offten we don't stick to them .I am told that offten they don't last but a few months, they say that by march the gyms are back to normal. Sadly our comittment to Christ sometimes is the same way. We have good intention , we want to stay comitted, but over a period of time it becomes easy to loose our zeal for the Lord. Offten it is not in the big things that get us but the constent drip,drip of everyday life that pulls us away from Our relationship with the Lord. Paul told Timothy in 2 Timothy 1:6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gilf of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. NIV : We are to keep faning that fire that is in us, put there by the Holy Spirit. You may ask how do we do that? by spending time with the Lord everyday in prayer, by reading his word, and by staying in fellowship with our church, and spending time with other christians. There are no Lone Rangers in our walk with the Lord. We need fellowship with other christians , we need there encouragement when we are down , we need thier prayer when we can't pray for ourselves. We need one another. THAT is why the Lord spend so much time on teaching us about love and Paul wrote in 1 Corninthians chapter 13 verse 4 Love is patient , love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. it is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not easy angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.NIV ; We need one another. This New Year gives all of us an opportunity to start our walk with the lord refreshed, revived, and excited. I believe that 2009 will be a year of great harvest. I don't know of a church that does not need excited ,comitted christian to support the ministries that go out of our churchs. THIS could be the year that we take back our community for the Lord. Remember that it is not in our we start the race but how we finish the race. Let 2009 be the year we turn the world up side down for the Lord!!! SO get involve ,Let the Holy Spirit direct you , fill you , and help keep you on the narrow way . AMEN , Keep looking up he is coming soon.