New Beginnings

As the entire world watched as 2009 ushered in...hope, joy, optimism filled hearts everywhere. As I reflect on day one of the first day...It dawned on me that we get new beginnings with God everyday. We get a new year everyday...the promise of a day with Him, serving Him, fellowshiping with Him, learning about Him. A day of hope that no matter what comes, we're not alone. The promises of a new year...hope, joy, prosperity, love, health are available to us who believe in God's amazing grace and live by faith--EVERYDAY. This is plenty reason for me to praise God everyday for bringing newness, a fresh start with Him every dawn when I wake up to a bran new day. Hallelujah!

Lord I than you for my devotional piece and promise this morning. I know in my heart and believe that this is the year of favor, a great harvest, of celebration and rejoicing in your Blessings in my life.

Joel 2: 18-27

The Lord's Answer

"Then the Lord will be jealous for His land,
and take pity on His people.

The Lord will reply to them:
"I am sending you grain, new wine and oil,
enough to satisfy you fully;
never again will I make you
an object of scorn among nations.

I will drive the northern army far from you,
pushing it into a parched and barren land,
with its front columns going into the eastern sea
and those in the rear into the western sea.
And its stench will go up;
its smell will rise."

Surely He has done great things.
Be not afraid, O land;
be glad and rejoice.
Surely the Lord has done great things.
Be not afraid, O wild animals,
for the open pastures are becoming green.
The trees are bearing their fruit;
the fig tree and the vine yield their riches.

Be glad, O people of Zion,
rejoice in the Lord your God,
for He has given you
the autumn rains in righteousness.
He sends you abundant showers,
both autumn and spring rains, as before.
The threshing floors will be filled with grain;
the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

"I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten-
the great locust and the young locust,
the other locusts and the locust swarms-
my great army that I sent among you.
You will have plenty to eat, until you are full,
and you will praise the name of the Lord your God,
who has worked wonders for you;
never again will my people be shamed.
Then you will know that I am in Israel,
that I am the Lord your God,
and that there is no other;
never again will my people be shamed.