HELEN REDMAN, DIRECTOR
NEWSLETTER
January 2002
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Today we stand at the gate of a fresh new year. Stretching before us are 365 unlived days, bursting with potential. Many will make a list of New Year's resolutions but at the end of the year will be unable to cross them off as being fulfilled. The goals ignore the greatest resource of power for change in our lives; God's presence. They focus on us instead of our response to Him, and dwell on external results rather than drawing from internal strength. No wonder we are not making much progress. In II Cor. 3:18, Paul says, "We are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." I like the version in the Living Bible; and Barclay, author of the book, Letters to the Corinthians, states: just possibly what Paul means is that as we gaze at Christ, we in the end reflect Him. His image, His reflection, appear in our lives. It is a law of life that we become like the people we gaze at. People hero-worship someone and begin to reflect the ways of that person. If we fasten our eyes upon Him, it is the glory of the Christian life that in the end we become to reflect Him. There are only two categories of people; the losers and the choosers, the whiners and the shiners, those who reject ability and those who respond to ability, the doers and the non-doers, the believers and the nonbelievers. Our first choice is before us. We stand at the gate of a new year. God opens the gate; we choose to walk through. He shows us the way; we choose to follow. Together we take the first step into the new year. With God walking with us, we can choose to live above the level of mediocrity. Isaac D. Israeli says it so beautifully...It is a wretched fate to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. We have reached the point in God's economy where we cannot afford to be ordinary. Mediocre for God's people is a disaster. In this army that marches in the end time, mediocrity will have no place. We will be called upon to challenge the impossible, tread the unknown, believe and hope against hope, and GOD WILL HELP US TO DO IT.
DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY FOR 2002
We have rescheduled the 2001 seminar that had to be postponed because of the
uprising. We will be working with Bill & Mariene Burch of Faith in Action.
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