January Newsletter 2002

Christian Education Pre-K-12
Richmond Academy

Living Word Christian Fellowship

“That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving...” Psalm 26:7

Vol. 11, No. 1 January 2002

Dear Family of God:

As things continue to progress in this New Year, we will have many blessings as well as disappointments. How you handle the disappointments will determine your next blessing. As long as we continue to look through natural eyes, we will not see beyond ourselves into the realm of glory that is all about us.

Since the Lord has not come back yet, we are still being fine turned and prepared for a greater blessing than the world has ever witnessed. It will be the Church triumphant and victorious, without spot or wrinkle. All that we fought to hold on to will be as rubble in the sight of God’s glory and splendor. It is really the only thing that is worth continuing the fight for. I want more than ever before to be seen in the Lord, nothing else. I don’t want to be seen or known for what I do, but for what He is in me.

Because we are in war, we have certain expectations of deliverance. We must maintain those expectations in the Lord or we will be frustrated over and over again. Things are not as they seem. The spirit realm is becoming more of a reality than ever before. The change we have been in is becoming abundantly clear. It is up to us to embrace it and live in it. We are becoming spiritual beings in the earth. The glory is increasing in the midst of darkness.

Let us live in the blessings. Let go of disappointments. They will always be a part of life. But the blessings make it wonderful to behold the glory.

Pr. Steve

January 1

On this, the first day of a new year,
I commit to Thee, my God,
The total new creation
That Thou has made
In this the body of my former Self.

Already I have left my sin and shame
At the foot of Thy saving Cross
And now, I arise renewed,
Knowing that in the shedding of Thy Blood
There were drops enough to cleanse forevermore,
Or for as long as I will lift my prayers to Thee.
And I will lift my prayers, my God,
For all the days Thou gives me breath.

Take all that I am and have
And use them for Thy work here in this place,
Or in whatever place Thou sends me
In this Thy new-born year.

Ruth French
01/01/1971

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