A NEW THING

A NEW THING!

Isaiah 43:18-19  NIV

¹⁸ “Forget the former things;
    do not dwell on the past.
¹⁹ See, I am doing a new thing!
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland.

Trust God to do what you cannot do. He is able.

Embark upon a new year with gratitude and expectation.

Be grateful for 2018 and its experience.  Be watchful for what’s about to come in 2019.

God is doing a new thing, raising up new leaders,

moving you into new networks, placing the right people in your path, bringing forth  better ideas,

making you stronger in your faith and elevating the unexpected. 

He’s making a way out of no way…making a way out of unknown ways.

He’s bringing things to past that we haven’t conceived in our thoughts, because we don’t have the capacity to do so.

All for His glory.

THE CRACKED POT

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Happy New Year 2019!

BLESSED AND HIGHLY FAVORED

HIGHLY FAVORED

By Denise Delaine

Luke 1:26-28 KJV

Being Highly Favored:  To be raised from a lowly estate to a place of honour 

In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin pledged in marriage to a man named Joseph, who was of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. The angel appeared to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”

Luke 1:26-28

Recently, while attendin worship service at Abyssinian Church in Harlem, the pastor shared the familiar story in Luke 1 regarding the angels appearing to Mary and Joseph and their subsequent marriage.  In those days,  women did not have status such as we have today nor was it acceptable as it is today to have a child out of wedlock.  Yet, God orchestrated every activity unimaginable to man to carry out His divine plan for the Son of God to be born through a young unmarried virgin.  In Luke 1, we see what was normally frowned upon as a woman, God has now established respect that women deserve. Here, we see God also setting the stage for us.

Consider how God has raised us from a lowly estate as an individual woman and as a group of women. And that we have discovered God was in the midst of it all. The songstress, Betty Wright said in a song, “Think back!” Compare your childhood, teenage, or young adult years with where you are today spiritually, mentally, physically, economically, educationally, and/or professionally. Consider major accomplishments of women in our society and the hurdles they had to overcome to get there.  Now, do you feel highly favored? If so, sing the song, or recite the lyrics, or write it in a journal, “Look where He has brought me from. He brought me out of darkness, into the marvellous light. Look where He brought me from!”

Let us first encourage ourselves and then one to another in having the favor of God in our lives. And let us remind one another, regardless of where we are or what is happening to us or around us, as the Angel said unto Mary, it also applies to us, “The LORD is with you!”

Soror Rosa Denise Delaine

AN UNSPEAKABLE GIFT

AN UNSPEAKABLE GIFT

2 Corinthians 9:15

Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift.

It's no second-guessing about what unspeakable gift this is.

God gave us His son.

If God had not given Christ, there would be no Christmas.

Oh how much we praise God for His unspeakable gift to us!.  

His gift was priceless.  

There's no gift of diamonds more precious than the gift of Christ.

There's no gift of Pandora charms more precious than Christ.

There's no gift of a car more precious than Christ.

There's no gift of designer clothing or purses more precious than the gift of Christ.

There's no gift of travel more precious than the gift of Christ.

There's NO gift more precious than the gift of Christ.

The true gift during the Christmas season is love.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son... (John 3:16 KJV)

ADVENT - A SEASON OF EXPECTANCY

A Season of Expectancy

Isaiah 11:1-3 1 A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. 2 The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him- the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the LORD- 3 and He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears;

Isaiah's  prophesy of the coming of Christ gave hope during that time for what was yet to come.
We are in the beautiful season on advent.  The commemoration of the coming of Christ.
May the spirit of the advent season be a gleam of hope in the midst of despair.
This is not a season to be lonely, depressed, hurt and sad.  Despite the world's anguish,
we can rejoice in The Lord.  We can approach this season with an expectation of
restoration and wholeness.  We can make choices.  We can choose the dwell on
all of the hurt and anguish in our lives, or we can choose to believe God for
restoration. 

We can choose to dwell on the crucifixion or rejoice over the resurrection.
We can believe and pray for a renewed peace in our hearts. 
We can believe and pray for restoration of joy. 
We can believe and pray for a stronger faith.
This is the season of advent, expectation and anticipation.
Rejoice.  We can still rejoice today.
"Keep Jesus in Your Heart."