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February 17th Friday

Greetings to you in the name of the designer and completer of our faith, Jesus Christ – THE Risen Saviour! What a beautiful morning in the Kingdom…and the promise of grand weather for the weekend. I trust that you have had a good week…in spite of the challenges and unplanned adventures that came your way. Are you looking forward to gathering with your church family for worship and fellowship? Are you expecting to experience God’s presence in tangible ways? Are you believing for a ‘breakthroughs’…also called – a ‘suddenly’? Today I will be praying for you, asking Father to touch your life today in a way that will leave His fingerprints.

Have you ever noticed how your attention can be drawn to something or someone that you were previously unaware of. You know, a friend tells you they bought another car…a bright yellow one and for several days you see 110 yellow – bright yellow cars driving around. Someone else says that they are going on a diet…and sure enough  7 out of 10 of the people you meet say…”I’m on a diet.”  Or you buy a new book or cd or…something – and it seems like everyone did the same thing.

Well – I have three words that I have adopted as part of a New Year’s commitment – adventure, abandonment, and surrender. It may just be me, but I am finding those words in most of the books, articles, devotions, song lyrics, and even dialogues in movies and television shows.This week, well it actually started at a spiritual retreat last week, these words have become friends with another significant word – brokenness. There is the adventure of and in of brokenness…and the surrender to the process and necessity of being broken…and the abandonment that brokenness brings. This past week at Monday prayer the theme of brokenness as it relates to spiritual renewal and revival and restoration was a predominant theme.

Now this morning three different devotionals have arrived in my ‘Inbox’ and the theme is – BROKENNESS. I well know the quotes of A.W. Tozer and T.J. Jakes and others: It is doubtful whether God can bless a man [woman] greatly until He has hurt [broken] him [her] deeply … or – You can’t be blessed until you have been broken. So, I am believing that God wants me to pay attention to this principle…in fact, I think He wants to remind all of us…Genesis 32:22-32 – Jacob wrestling with God…I won’t let go until you bless me…Jacob received a blessing and his hip was broken. 

Here is this morning’s quote: Brokenness: there is a holy purpose in breaking things and being broken. Our loving Father uses the breaking process and what is broken to transform, strengthen, and bless.

Something to ponder…have a great weekend and be blessed!