What a year 2010 has been. God has done so
many things – Las & Lila have been
married, baby's have
been born, baptisms have happened, people
have committed their lives to Jesus. Marriage
seminars have taken place, there have been men and
women's mentoring and the cells have been active in
serving the community through the Besom project
among other things, as well as strengthening and caring
for each other. There have also been Kenya missions, Birmingham youth missions and youth
outreach evenings. There have been parenting courses
and marriage weekends away. There has been
Coffee shop revive and the parent and toddlers
group. Jason & Joelle have planted into
Normandy and
Christian & Kara are about to get
equipped in South Africa.
All these things are a part of walking in
our inheritance, which has been our theme in 2010. It takes courage and
obedience to God to walk in the things he has asked us to do. It also takes a
relationship with God - being willing to spend time with Him. Let's never
forget that immediately after the 10 commandments (Deut 5: 6 - 22) comes the
command to love the Lord our God with all our heart (Deut 6: 4 - 6). We can
only do God's will when we love him and we can only love him when we know he
loves us (1 John 4: 19). This is eternal life to know the only true God and
Jesus Christ who He has sent (John 17: 3). It's about relationship. We know
this eternal life is the key blessing of our New Covenant inheritance. But
along with that comes Kingdom family, a kingdom purpose – bringing heaven to
earth and eventually a new heaven and earth with the reward of an eternity with
Jesus. So as we enjoy Christmas with friends and family and then begin 2011,
let's take time to seek God and hear His voice telling us He loves us, that
we're worth it (He must think that as he died for us) and He has a purpose for
our lives.
Then as we enter 2011 we will enter with
that sense of being people in the purpose of God and we will be ready to move
into the mission, discipleship and power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus served the
mission of His Father out of relationship with His Father and was therefore
able to disciple others out of deep love and in the power of the Holy Spirit.
As we move forward let’s remember that God does not want us to walk alone - we
do all this as a team and kingdom family - reaching generations.
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