Where Did I Go?

I was at the American Christian Fiction Writer's conference. This year it was held at the Hyatt by the Arch.

What a wonderful conference it was. Nothing like getting together with 700 other writers. The place filled with the Holy Spirit. Everyone looking to help each other. Truly a great experience.

SO I am back now and ready to write the words the Lord has for me. He is the author and finisher of our faith and I am honored and grateful that He has chosen me to write His Words of encouragement and hope to a world that is lost and dark with despair.

I ask that you would pray for Christian writers. That they would be inspired by the Lord and write. That stories of hope would go throughout the world.

Psalm 26:7

⁷That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.

Shine on, Christians!

Standing out. Shining in the darkness.

The economy is in free fall, the misery index climbing to summer temperature heights, and it's stinking hot.

The world is slipping into chaos, earthquakes shake the foundations, and drought consumes the food supply.

But we Christians are a different people, our eye look to the skies in anticipation of His return. We are not bound to this earth, Heaven is our home.

Around us people are frantic.

Now is the time for us to shine. Let the world see His light of hope in us. Demonstrating His Peace beyond understanding in a world full of turmoil.

Now is the time to cling to the Lord, rejoice that He is, and let His light shine through you.

The world needs us to be different. To be peculiar. To be a light shining in the darkness to lead them to Jesus.

Deuteronomy 14:2
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

1 Peter 2:9
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

Matthew 5:14
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

DAY 168

Hope!

How many times have you heard or said - "Don't get your hopes up."

Yet, that is exactly where they are supposed to be. If our hope is in God, then I think that is pretty up there.

To lower our hope is fear that God is not good or worthy of our trust.

Psalm 71:14
But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.

Psalm 31:24
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

Set your hope high. For we serve a living loving God. He will not harm us. Although His answer may be no, we can trust Him.

Hope big, hope high, hope for the impossible. For with God, nothing is impossible.