Dear Friend,
As we cross over from 2014 into 2015, I was stirred in my heart that 2015 would be a year of re-positioning and re-direction for some of you who will be reading this letter.
2014 would have been a great year for many but for some of you, you feel as though 2014 was a trying time, that it was like you just found yourself going around in circles. Your internal GPS is messed up and for every decision you make, you find yourself back in the exact same place you were before you acted on that decision. I can even see you now just sitting there wringing your hands and wondering "Just how can I get out of this?"
It may not even be on a personal basis. Some of you may be running a business, pastoring a church or even be in itinerant ministry and still be experiencing the above. Doors that you thought were opened seems to have closed on you. Depression's sinking in and you see no way out.
THIS is what God has promised concerning you in 2015:
Isaiah 48:17 (NKJV)
17 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you in the way that you should go.
He's identified Himself as your Redeemer, and your God.
You HAVE been redeemed or bought back by Him! You belong to Him because He paid an exceedingly high price for you: His only Son.
Colossians 1:13-14 (AMP)
13 [The Father] has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
14 In Whom we have our redemption through His blood, [which means] the forgiveness of our sins.
The word 'has' in English is what we would call a 'present perfect progressive tense'. It's a mouthful, but what it means is this: that it describes a past action that's still continuing into the foreseeable future.
Never question the truth that you've not only been redeemed by God, you're still redeemed and you'll still be redeemed tomorrow and the days after; because you are THAT valuable to Him!
That just thrills me, knowing that I have a God who's FOR me, not against me! AND He's for you too! This is what He's saying concerning you right now:
Isaiah 41:10 (AMP)
10 Fear not [there is nothing to fear], for I am with you; do not look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen and harden you to difficulties, yes, I will help you; yes, I will hold you up and retain you with My [victorious] right hand of rightness and justice.
If you've been in a state of fear and depression because of your situation, then don't fear. There IS a way out! God HAS promised that! He's even gone before you to prepare the way as He did for Israel of old:
Deuteronomy 1:33
33 who [being God] went in the way before you to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.
He said He went before Israel to show them where to go. If that worked for them in the Old Testament, where they were under bondage to an Old Covenant; how much more would He show us where we should go; being His Children under a New and better Covenant!
Our God is omnipresent. He lives outside of time. Not only has He gone before you to prepare the way, He's WITH you, keeping His Promise that He'll NEVER leave you or forsake you! (Hebrews 13:8)
Your steps are ordered by God, and He delights in your ways!
Psalms 37:23 (NKJV)
23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, And He delights in his way.
The word 'ordered' in Hebrew means to be established, confirm, be fixed, perfect, prepared.
God has more than just ordered your steps, He's established them by fixing them into place, preparing and perfecting them just for you!
So as we enter 2015 together, begin to boldly declare this; that the good work started in you by Him will come to full completion before Jesus comes back (Philippians 1:6), that He WILL perfect that which concerns you (Psalms 138:8)
I call you blessed!
Ken
