January 1, 2020
“I know that you can do all things and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted” – Job 42:1.
Happy New Year everybody!
Thank you for your prayers. Here is what I pray – every day: “Please bless those who pray for us and hear the prayers of those who pray for us”.
The year 2020 is here and we might think of 20/20 vision when it comes to the future. Wisdom is getting God’s opinion and results in 20/20 foresight vision. God has an opinion on everything! The issue is: do we really want His opinion? He will almost always give us His opinion if we truly seek it. We all have 20/20 hindsight wisdom! We later see clearly what we should have said – or done. I can guarantee: if we get God’s opinion – and embrace it, we will have 20/20 foresight wisdom. It will spare us of so much regret! The reward is incalculable (Prov.4: 5-9).
Louise and I will return in February to Kensington Temple, London, for our seventh six-month visit. Pastor Colin Dye and Amanda have been such a blessing to us.
God has given us good health. I watch my weight; walk briskly on the treadmill; do 21 pushups daily (perhaps not up to Olympic standard!). A cardiologist who examined my last echocardiogram recently said to me: “You will live until you are 100”. I don’t believe that of course, but I must tell you we are so thankful for God’s goodness. I still get invitations from many places – Korea, China, South Africa, the Middle East – and the USA! TR travels with me to most of these places. January 2020 will without question be the hardest of my entire life; kindly see my web site itinerary.
Books out in 2020: For an Audience of One and Chances are, You are a Pharisee if . . .
As Louise and I talk about our sixty-one years of marriage, we marvel how God has planned our lives and has been with us unmistakably every step of the way. When I think of the smallest details of His guidance it boggles my mind.
He will do that for you too. Reason: no purpose of His can be [ultimately] thwarted. This refers to those who love God and are called according to His purpose; for them “all things work together for good” (Rom. 8:28 – KJV). That is the bottom line of the book of Job; it is what Job – who loved God – learned for himself after His ordeal.
God is not only absolutely sovereign but absolutely loving and all-powerful. Let Job 42:1 be a word you to embrace for 2020.
God bless you all. Much love and gratitude to God and to you,
R T, Louise, T R, Annette, Toby, Timothy, Tyndale, Melissa and Rex – Romans 8:28.