Esther 3-4, Zechariah 11-12, Acts 27:27-38, Revelation 21:9-14, Psalm 147: Many of you may still be celebrating Christmas while others are turning your minds to starting a new year. You may be facing the new year looking forward to new challenges or trying new adventures. Others of you are probably just grateful that you survived 2019 and are praying for a better 2020. No matter which of these you are I truly believe God has much for us in 2020. I was praying yesterday about what word would carry me into 2020. The word that came to mind was persevering. I immediately told the Lord that was NOT the word I wanted. Persevering brings to my mind hard times and difficulties, but the Father reminded me to hold on and allow Him to show me. Persevering doesn’t always have to be through hard times. It can be shaking off the chains that have bound us for a while. It can be the running through to the end. The victory is right around the corner.
In Esther we read today of the hardships that God people had endured and in chapter 3 the edict comes down allowing the annihilation of the Jews. In chapter 4 Esther is ready to throw in the towel. Sound like anybody reading this? Then Mordecai reminds her that she may have been called to this very place for such a time as this. It is like Mordecai is telling her, “Girl it is your time to shine!” Yes it looked bleak. Yes the circumstances were difficult, but God was doing something great that would set the Jewish people free. The best truly was yet to come!!! I speak that over each of us peering into 2020. God’s best may indeed lay right inside the pages of the next 365 days. Our job is to trust God with the results and do what we are called and equipped to do.
So, if 2020 is for me to persevere on to seeing God do miraculous things, then bring it on. I long to see our greatest days ahead. I pray we will all see a great moving of God’s spirit and that we would be a catalyst He uses for revival.