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Your Bag Of Miracles…

A farmer has a bag of seeds filled with things such as the promise of life and fruitfulness. If the farmer doesn’t put the seed into the soil, it remains like a promise unfulfilled.

The Bible is a bag of many seeds. Every seed or word is filled with life and promise; a potential forest of fruitfulness, victory, love, joy, promises of God, miracles, and abundant life. It’s all there, but it’s only unlocked when you take the seed out of the bag.

Take the word, the verse, the truth or the promise out of the bag; water it with faith, and apply it to your life. Take it with you into the dirt, the muck, the messiness of real life; your work life, home life, emotional life, your daily life, your thought life. Let it get inside of you.

The one who hears the Word and takes it to heart is the good soil who will bear much fruit. Do you have a bag full of promises, blessings, power, and life? It’s all waiting to touch your life. Take it out, apply it to your life and you’ll be blessed 100-fold with blessings of power and life.

As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. Isaiah 55:10-11

Take a word from the word of God – a seed. Apply it throughout the day to the soil of your life.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

Your Choice – Your Shannah

The word in Hebrew for year is Shannah. But the word Shannah comes from the Hebrew for the number two. And the word year in Hebrew means “the second time, the repetition, the repeat” – for each year is like a repeat of the year before.

We often live our lives just this way; we continue to do the same things: the same mistakes, the same stumblings, the same fears. It’s just a Shannah – a repetition of what went before. But the word Shannah also means “new, the second, the second chance.”

So each Shannah, each year, is given to give us a chance for newness in our life. A new beginning to do the things we never do but should, to make the changes we know we should. It’s up to you to choose which one it will be.

In the power of God, He wants this Shannah to be something new and different, for “brand new” things, for overcoming and for victory. For in the new birth, all things will become new for you – but you need courage to break out of the repetition and into the newness of life.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 2 Corinthians 5:17

Do something new today – take a new course – a new action – step out in faith – break the routine – do something unexpected of the old you – but part of the new you God has called you to become.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

The Gate Of The Year…

‘God Knows’

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
“Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown”.
And he replied:
“Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way”.
So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night.
And He led me towards the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East.

So heart be still:
What need our little life
Our human life to know,
If God hath comprehension?
In all the dizzy strife
Of things both high and low,
God hideth His intention.

God knows. His will
Is best. The stretch of years
Which wind ahead, so dim
To our imperfect vision,
Are clear to God. Our fears
Are premature; In Him,
All time hath full provision.

Then rest: until
God moves to lift the veil
From our impatient eyes,
When, as the sweeter features
Of Life’s stern face we hail,
Fair beyond all surmise
God’s thought around His creatures
Our mind shall fill.

Minnie Louise Haskins 1908

Happy New Year 2023…

In September 1939, Great Britain allied with France and several other alarmed countries in declaring war on Hitler’s Germany, which had invaded Poland in its intended march toward global domination. By the end of the year, anxieties throughout England remained on high alert; everyone was fearful of bombing and invasion.

When King George VI sat down before two large microphones to make his Christmas Day speech to the nation, he was dressed in his official uniform as Admiral of the Fleet. With so many parts of the world facing an uncertain future, his goal was to reassure the people that their nation was prepared and able and their cause right and just.

“A new year is at hand,” the king said. “We cannot tell what it will bring. If it brings peace, how thankful we shall all be. If it brings us continued struggle, we shall remain undaunted.”

Then, turning to some lines of poetry his wife had recently shared with him, he concluded his speech with these words, which are a fitting close to our year together. They offer a word of encouragement that—we hope—will settle your hearts amid the troubles of our own era in history. These lines are from “The Gate of the Year,” a poem written in 1908 by Minnie Louise Haskins:

I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”

And he replied, “Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way!”

Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe. Proverbs 29:25

As you make the turn to a new year, what are you facing that needs you to sink your hand more deeply into God’s hand?

Happy New Year!! May you all be blessed!!

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed