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Our Battles Last Year

KATHY GABLER—Our Battles this last year may have been physical or financial or attacks from people or harassment in circumstances or a siege of constant pressure. Whatever the conflict, I think battle-weariness sets in at the point there seems to be no let up, no end. Changelessness is exhausting. It can make us too tired to muster hope, but like David, that’s the time to talk to God openly. In Psalm 55, David told the Lord that he just wanted some peace and quiet, a walk in the country and a cabin in the woods. He told Him his heart was desperate for change (Msg). When we come to God in exhausted desperateness, He does not meet us there as a stonewall of resistance. That place of meeting with Him is a threshold, a starting place, a second wind. Just breathe.


To Seek and to Save

As the people of God assemble today may they hope in Mighty Yahweh and His Word and His faithfulness to work that Word until His promises are fulfilled. May they take hope and encourage one another that their Lord is working in this nation and in the nations of the world and showing Himself mighty to redeem that which is lost. “for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” (Lk.19:10, Amp)