Faith-filled sms

Have you ever received numerous sms from your boss just in a day or two? I had (or we had - the staff). Our Senior Pastor Guna Raman (and our boss) send us these sms on Crossover night and on the first day of the new year. These sms are not messages of 'To Do' List, but they are faith-filled words that inspired us, challenged us, encouraged us and aligned us back to God - Ready to face 2010.

Sharing these sms here, trusting that it will encourage many, and those in need of a faith word will be inspired to press on.

1) 'Until someone gets out of spotlight and plays 2nd fiddle, there will be no harmony.' Today I honour each of you who has done so much behind the scenes while I stood up there to preach. Without all the work on the background, the right environment would not be there for the Word to be received. Thank you for serving the Lord with such a servant heart in 2009.

2) Because you are God's treasure, you can be sure that He will not allow anyone to mess with His treasure. "Thus says the LORD, he who touches you touches the apple of my eye." (Zechariah 2:8). Put absolute confidence in God in 2010.

3) God's promise on the first day of 2010 for us, "I crown the year with My goodness, and My paths drip with abundance." (Psalm 65:11)

4) Let others breathe the polluted air of anxiety if they must in 2010, but not us. Let's be numbered among those who hear a different voice...God's. And march in confidence to the command of that Voice.

5) Oswald Chambers wrote: Leave the broken, irreversible past in God's hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.

6) If you hear a voice within you say, "You cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." Vincent Van Gogh. Make 2010 a year where you dare to go against the voice of the flesh because you want your confidence to be in God.

7) Eph 2:10, "We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, to do good works prepared for us in advance." Note 'in advance'. What an awesome thought. God is already in your future. He is setting you up. He is preparing the way. You can have confidence in Him for 2010. Let's walk into the New Year with holy anticipation.