All day today I have been singing this song!

You know the one?

Hope’s Anthem by William Matthews

In case you don’t know it the lyrics go like this...

He’s awakening the hope in me

By calling forth my destiny

He’s breathing life into my soul

I will thirst for Him and Him alone

He has come like the rain

That showers on the barren plain

So my heart and tongue confess

Jesus, Christ the hope of man

My hope is in you, God

I am steadfast

I will not be moved

I’m anchored, never shaken

All my hope is in you.

The last time I sang this song… like this on repeat… was when our world’s first began to change.

COVID-19 was looming but not the pandemic we all know and live with today.

I lay awake one night... ALL night long... and God just kept saying, “I am AWAKENING my people!”

God is STILL speaking.

God is STILL calling His people to AWAKEN.

Amidst it all.

God is calling His people to:

AWAKEN to HOPE.

AWAKEN to the DESIRES of our heart.

AWAKEN to DELIGHTING in HIM... in HIM alone.

AWAKEN to CONFESS Jesus Christ.

To a world that needs to know

JESUS CHRIST…

The only HOPE of man.

Imagine my surprise when this beautiful card came in the mail from @wildgypsy439 from a land far far away! A card that reminded me... on a night when we were plunging back into lockdown...to keep my eyes on our God who has come to AWAKEN us spirit, soul and body!

Imagine my surprise to discover that today is the EXACT day one year ago that I received this package! And even as I write we are once again being launched into lockdown!

God is STILL speaking to our hearts my beautiful friends!

Do not lose heart!

Do not grow weary!

God is at work…

In us

And through us

To do his good will and pleasure!

Exceedingly abundantly above and beyond anything you could ask, think or imagine!

According to HIS POWER!

TO HIM BE THE GLORY

IN THE CHURCH

IN CHRIST JESUS

THROUGHOUT ALL GENERATIONS

FOREVER AND EVER!

amen.

(Taken from Ephesians 3:20)