It's Getting Better

A Word Of Encouragement For River Run

As for you, I'll come with healing, 
   curing the incurable ...
I'll turn things around for Jacob. 
   I'll compassionately come in and rebuild homes.
The town will be rebuilt on its old foundations; 
   the mansions will be splendid again.
Thanksgivings will pour out of the windows; 
   laughter will spill through the doors.
Things will get better and better. 
   Depression days are over.
They'll thrive, they'll flourish. 
   The days of contempt will be over.
They'll look forward to having children again, 
   to being a community in which I take pride.
          Jer. 30:17-20, The Message

I'll refresh tired bodies;
   I'll restore tired souls.


Be ready. The time's coming"—God's Decree—"when I will plant people and animals in Israel and Judah, just as a farmer plants seed. And in the same way that earlier I relentlessly pulled up and tore down, took apart and demolished, so now I am sticking with them as they start over, building and planting.
          Jer. 31:25, 27-28, The Message

My Utmost For His Highest - Oswald Chambers

December 9


Very few of us debate with the sordid and evil and wrong, but we do debate with the good. It is the good that hates the best, and the higher up you get in the scale of the natural virtues, the more intense is the opposition to Jesus Christ. "They that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh" – it is going to cost the natural in you everything, not something.

The natural life is not spiritual, and it can only be made spiritual by sacrifice. If we do not resolutely sacrifice the natural, the supernatural can never become natural in us.


December 10


Some of us are trying to offer up spiritual sacrifices to God before we have sacrificed the natural. The only way in which we can offer a spiritual sacrifice to God is by presenting our bodies a living sacrifice. Sanctification means more than deliverance from sin, it means the deliberate commitment of myself whom God has saved to God, and that I do not care what it costs.


My Utmost For His Highest