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Move On

  Move On You might be wondering what I have been up to during the last month and a half.   Hello everyone! How have you all been doing? My wife and I have made a huge move of over 1000 km south of where we were.   Over here it is not as cold as up North. A lot of us like our comfort zone maybe a bit too much.   So much so that when its time to move we say: “No way! I like it here”.   We might like our comfort zone so much that we might miss entirely what God has in store for us. Our comfort zone could become our danger zone very quickly. Well, all this to tell you our move was far from being easy.   We had to push through and when we had gone through one obstacle.   Boom! There came up another one unrelated.   That we are exhausted.   We are no longer spring chicken; my wife and I are in our 60s and we feel it. Along with my mental illness, we had many challenges. For my encouragement and yours perhaps! I have Psalms 42 and 43 to share and more precisely verse 5 and 11 in

Don't Lose Courage

  Don’t Lose Courage “Don’t lose courage or be afraid when rumors are heard in the land.   One rumor comes one year, another rumor comes the next year; Rumors of violence are in the land.   Rumors that one ruler will fight against another are in the land.” (Jeremiah 51:46 GWT) Even though, this word was written 620 years BC to the children of Israel while they were in Babylon captivity.   It was prophesying their deliverance from them. Don’t be discourage by what you hear in the news or watch on TV because God has better things for those who belong to him.   He is with them always. Your future on earth may not be what you have envisage it to be, but God is always on his Throne ruling the nations. For the kingdom is the Lord’s And He rules the nations. Psalm 22:28)   The word “discourage” comes from the Old French word (des) corage: It means ‘taking away courage.   In other word, refrain from having fellowship with anything that takes away your courage and you will b