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January 2010                                                   

Dear Friends in Christ:

Happy New Year to all of you. It’s always an exciting time to look ahead to a new year with plans and goals for increase and success. I pray that 2010 will bring you many blessings.

I want to share a message with you that I believe will set a good foundation for you as you begin this new year. I believe the word of the Lord for us is to “Go again in 2010”. Let me explain.

Elijah the prophet was instructed by the Lord to approach Ahab king of Israel with a message that rain was on the way (1 Kings 18:1). This was good news since at that time there had been no rain for 3 years and 6 months (James 5:17). In verse 43 of 1 Kings 18 Elijah then instructs his servant to go look toward the sea for a sign of the promised rain but the servant returns and says, “There is nothing”.

Have you ever been there? Maybe you’re there right now? You’ve been believing for something but there is no sign of any change. You’ve prayed and sought the Lord and done your best to stay in faith but all you see is the same thing as Elijah’s servant; nothing. It can be easy to get discouraged and give up hope but let’s read the rest of the verse. Elijah responds to the servant’s report with two simple words; go again.

The Scripture says this didn’t happen once or twice, or even three or four times, but six times the servant looked for the promised rain and returned with the same answer, “There is nothing”. But once again, the seventh time, Elijah said, “Go again”. 1 Kings 18:44 says that the seventh time the servant saw a little cloud about the size of a man’s hand and soon after the rain came.

I don’t think there is something magical about the number seven but we can learn from this story. Elijah kept expecting the word of the Lord to come to pass. How long have you been waiting for your miracle? How many times have you tried to find a job, start a business, lose that weight, conquer that habit, pay off that debt? How many times have you prayed for your family to get saved or for that almost forgotten dream to be fulfilled?

Let this be the year when you choose to “Go Again”. Keep expecting, keep believing, keep trusting in the word of the Lord. Pick up those discarded dreams and aspirations and choose to “Go Again”. Repent for losing heart and get back to trusting the Lord to bring His promise to pass.

Psalm 105:19 reveals something to us of Joseph. Sold into slavery by his own family, falsely accused and imprisoned, forgotten by those who promised to help him, things couldn’t have looked good for him. But verse 19 says, “until the time that his word came to pass; the word of the Lord tested him”. I don’t think God was testing him but instead he was tested everyday whether to keep believing the dreams God gave him or to give up hope and forget about it. Waiting for the fulfillment of God’s promise tested his resolve to either hold fast to his faith and “go again” or to lose heart and let go of his dreams.

We know how the story ends; Joseph saw his dreams fulfilled and his destiny accomplished but only because he chose to “go again”. Let’s do the same. Let’s “Go Again” in 2010.

For His Name,

John Merola



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