“I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you” – Psalm 32:8.
Dear friends:
When I came across Psalm 32:8 a few days ago, I was gripped with God’s infinite compassion and understanding of us. Think of these words: “I will counsel you with my eye upon you”. What a promise for 2021!
I suppose the year 2020 was by far – for many – the worst year ever. But I have to admit that I have probably reached more people in the past several months than ever before! TR turned our living room into a TV studio! Through TV interviews and zooms we have sent countless sermons all over the world. And yet Louise and I will never forget flying out of London on March 15th – this being the next to last plane allowed to land in the US. We will not be returning to London as we have done in recent years. But my thirty-minute program, “Word and Spirit”, courtesy of TBN UK, is on in the UK four times a week.
A most happy surprise in 2020 has come from Tim Dilena, the new pastor of Times Square Church in New York City. He has invited me to preach for him once a month – both to his congregation and to his large staff – from now on. Tim’s background is interesting. As told in David Wilkerson’s book, The Cross and the Switchblade, the police had stopped David from preaching on the streets of Brooklyn when police captain Paul Dilena walked up and said, “Let the man preach; let’s see what he has to say”. Sixty-three years later Paul’s son Tim became the senior pastor of Times Square Church, founded by David Wilkerson.
We are in the most perilous and uncertain times I have known in my 85 years. Covid is still here. The nation is dangerously divided between those who are thrilled with the presidential election and those who are broken-hearted. My recent book We’ve Never Been This Way Before offers hope for the present and the future. My next book, on a slightly lighter note, Chances Are You Might be a Pharisee if…comes out in a few days.
I hope you are blessed by my 60 second tweets I do daily. It was my friend J John – England’s famous evangelist – who gave me the idea. They are filmed by TR mostly from our balcony, but we are moving into a condominium shortly in the heart of Nashville. The tweets will show the Nashville skyline in the background. I would deeply appreciate your prayers that I will be led of the Holy Spirit in my books, preaching and tweets. So thank you indeed for your prayers.
And remember: Psalm 32:8 applies to you as it does to us. What a promise!
Warmest greetings.
R T, Louise, TR, Annette, Toby, Timothy, Ty, Melissa and Rex.