Dear Partner:
Welcome to 2016!
Happy New Year and thank you to all our volunteers, financial partners, and intercessors. We greatly appreciate your partnership in bringing salvation, healing, freedom, discipleship, food, and clothing to those in need in Kitchener and surrounding areas. We look forward to another year of God's favour on Fountain of Hope.
"If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up?" Genesis 4:7 (NASB)
As I was reading through the story of Cain and Abel recently, this verse stood out to me in a way I had not seen before. In Sozo ministry and in Healing Room prayer we have the privilege of seeing people's countenance change or be lifted up. What starts as a sad, burdened look often turns to a joyful smile, a laugh, and twinkling eyes. The change is profound because the God of the Universe presences Himself with us and we are freed, unburdened during prayer. I started to wonder what it means to do well.
Micah 6:8 says,
"He has told you, O man, what is good;
And what does the LORD require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness,
And to walk humbly with your God?"
As we start a new year, I encourage you to meditate on these words of God and to check your countenance often. R.T.
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