Looking in the Rearview Mirror!

Well, after all the fuss and preparation, Christmas is over… well sort of. Most of us are enjoying a couple of leisurely days before we return to work. The blessings of the season are now yielding their fruit in terms of peace and a sense of satisfaction at a year well done and closed out well. People have been saved, blessed, anointed and encouraged in our church and ministry. We now have new members poised to join us January 1, and the New Year is ahead with progress promised on our building program. God is good! We may have said goodbye to one season, but we are about to say hello to a new and exciting year!

Anything worth having and doing for God will be opposed by the enemy. Jesus said the enemy comes to kill, steal and destroy, but that he had come to bring abundant and full life (John 10:10). If we are serious about mission and ministry in our church we cannot be discouraged by opposition and difficulty. Instead we must be prepared to fight for ministry, in order to obey and glorify God (cf. Eph. 6:1-18).