God Is Our Strength
I hope that you all had a Merry Christmas!
And I pray that the Lord continues to speak to you as He has been so clearly speaking during our Journey to Bethlehem series.
Click here to watch The Journey of Mary and Joseph - Part 1 -Pastor Dave Lippman -12-21-2025
As we move toward the end of the year, I want to encourage you to reflect on two scriptures.
There’s a tension in the Bible of seeing the gritty reality of our hearts and world…
And also hoping, with a God-sized world changing hope, that all things can be restored and will be restored.
Here are two verses to restfully listen to and talk with the Lord about:
“Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls…
“Yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places” Habakkuk 3:17-19.
AND
“You, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God….
“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen” Ephesians 3:16-21.
Remember, Jesus both enters and holds our most personal pains and struggles…
And also offers transforming power that works in and through those very issues.
What is it that you’re facing that is a gritty reality like the Habakkuk verse?
And what would it be to trust Jesus to fill you with strength so God can do more than you even ask or imagine?
Take a moment to pray and share your heart with the Lord.
Hoping you had the Merriest Christmas and have a wonderful New Year!
Pastor Dave