8/16/2016

Dear friends,

I was so moved today to share this word and to encourage you that if you are not already, to use every opportunity to share your testimony. Ask the Lord who He has placed in your life that you can speak words of Truth, encouragement, challenge – all by just sharing the Testimony He has given you.

Are you waiting on the Lord for His promises to you to come true? Then you know how active this waiting process is and how difficult the battles, how sick the heart can become when hope is deferred and yet how beautiful the journey can be.  Have you been given a Word that you are actively walking out? Then you know how intense the battles, how wearying the walk, how exhausting the trek through enemy camps, through wilderness routes, through deep valleys and yet how incredible His strategies, His army, His right hand which holds you and guides you and leads you forth are and the beauty of the mountain tops.

There is tremendous joy that is birthed in and through us when we surrender and learn and choose each day to depend upon Him, to actively wait upon Him, to put on our spiritual armor and be willing to actively engage in His battles. This Joy, this Hope of Christ within us that is birthed through so many hard and heartbreaking circumstances we have and are even now enduring, is a powerful testimony that we need to be sharing.

May He show you and grant you the openings to share and may His words flow through you to speak melodies of His love, His strength, His Joy, His Peace, His Hope to each individual who is in such need of knowing the truth of who our God is and what He has done and is now doing – in you, in us, in our world.

Thanks be to God for His work in and through us!