I recently read a passage of Scripture that hit me hard with its implications for me (us) in these days, especially as I look down the barrel of a new year. See if it hits you the same way.
The prophet Zechariah hundreds of years before Jesus, looked ahead to a time when "many peoples will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord" and "ten men will take firm hold one Jew and say, 'Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.'"(Zech 8:20-23).
As I read that passage it was as if God was telling me that in 2012 God would like to send many individuals and families from all places and walks of life to our church to seek Him; and He wants to send some who are hungry for the living God to me and others in our church so we can show them the way to God through Jesus Christ.
Why should we not believe that is precisely what God wants to do in 2012? If that is to be the case, will we be ready? We will be if our purpose is firmly grounded in the gospel of Christ and our lives are dominated by the power of the Holy Spirit. That will be the evidence that God is with us.
I am praying that God will send spiritually hungry people to our church in the coming year and that He will use me to show them the way to Jesus. I want to be ready! How about you?
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