Quiet Times

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Ephesians 5:2  I believe that year 2016 is a year of learning to consistently walk in the love of God.   The Hebrew word for 16 is the compound word yod-vav, a word that signifies the hand (outworking) of the nail, which joins the hearts of two people as one. Sixteen is the number of love. It was because of the love of God that Jesus was nailed to the cross for the sin of the world. The cross manifested the love of God for all mankind. This truth is explicit in John 3:16. To walk in love necessitates a willingness to lay down one’s life. It requires living out the truth of Galatians 2:20 “ I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me . It is only through dying to self that one can possibly fulfill the sixt

  “On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD's Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. Leviticus 23:6 God commanded the Israelites to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread on the 15 th day of the first Hebrew month (Nisan) which ushered Israel into a season of rest. This season of rest came after God delivered Israel out of 430 years of Egyptian captivity (Exo:12:17; 40-42). 2015 indeed was a year when God ushered me into a season of deliverance and rest. It was a year when God cancelled all our debts, and was able to live practicing the 70,20,10 principle again. It was also a year of many opportunities, travels and busyness in the Kingdom work. As I went about God's business He taught me that rest is a possibility if I will only believe  because deliverance and rest come to those who truly believe that God “exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him” (Heb.11:6). It was a season