On
behalf of Desired Life Ministries I would like to wish you a very Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year. I also have a special message for you
this Christmas that I trust will be one that God speaks through to you
in a very special way.
These past few months the Lord has been giving me an anticipation of the coming year of 2010. While the world around us is facing hard times and uncertain things - I've been feeling God speak deep within my heart that as a child of God to rest in knowing that He is in control and He does have a good plan for us - one that requires only our listening and acting upon what He guides us to do.
This year for Christmas my brother and his wife gave me an amazing framed picture with Jeremiah 29:11 on it, "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." I've often heard that verse and in Christian circles and materials. I believe the coming year of 2010 is one in which the Lord has set apart for His people to be one of blessing.
God did not lift Joseph up during an economic boom time - but lifted him up to be a blessing in a great time of need. King David and Moses and many of the people God lifted up and used were lifted up in times of need.
Many of you God has been preparing in your areas of gifting, talents and passions. I don't need to tell you this as the Lord has been at work and this message comes as an affirmation or re-affirmation of what God has already been at work in speaking into your life.
Now, as we soon enter 2010 you will be given opportunities to be a light to a world looking for hope. This will be a year that for many of the world and in the church is going to be a very hard year - but this is going to be a year in which those who are actively seeking, wanting and asking God to be used in delivering miracles are going to experience one of the best years of their lives.
As we soon enter into 2010 I invite you to join with me and the umbrella of Desired Life Ministries in anticipation of the miracles God will use us for as His people simply because we are seeking, asking, believing and stepping out in faith to be used to deliver them for the expansion of His Kingdom.
In the process of this 2010 will be a year of blessing and one of the best year's you have experienced to date. Don't make the mistake of trying to define and limit what and how that will look like, but ask God to unravel His plan for you this year as He surely will.
May the rest of your Christmas day be one of blessing with your family and loved ones.
