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A NEW SEASON IS COMING!

Pastor Bill Marks, Christian Fellowship, Potchefstroom, (018) 293 1608 or 082 260 5965
W hile spending some quiet time in the bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf
Presence of the Lord, I heard Him also shall not wither; and whatsoever he
speak a prophetic word to me for doeth shall prosper".
2006: "A New Season is coming!" I also There is a divine flow of God's communica-
received an SMS on 21 November: "Don't let tion. From the Father to the Son, to the Holy
one SEASON'S pain destroy the joy of the Spirit. To us. John 5:19 - "The Son can do
rest. Don't judge life by a difficult season. nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the
Persist through difficult patches and better Father do." John 16:15 - "All things that the
times are sure to come." Eccl. 3:1 - "To Father hath are Mine: Therefore said I that
everything there is a SEASON and a time to He shall take of Mine and show it unto you."
every purpose under the heaven". God speaks to us because He created us to have
We constantly need the ongoing, immediate a relationship with Him and communication is
Rhema Word of God to regularly operate an essential part of any relationship. GOD IS A
through us. Isaiah 50:4 says: "The Lord God GOD WHO SPEAKS!
hath given me the tongue of the learned that I Hearing God's Voice will allow you to live and
should know how to speak a word in SEASON walk in His will for your life (2 Timothy 1:9).
to him that is weary". I was invited to minister at a Men's Camp.
Towards the end of a World Evangelism When I was driving home, I saw a man walking
Minister's Meeting, the ministers sensed the along the road, waving for me to stop the car. I
Presence of God and one of the men shouted - chatted to him for a while and then left. Two
"YES!" That was the only word he said, but it weeks ago I met this man again and he said to
ran like an electric current through the room. me, "Do you remember what you said to me?" I
Can God do everything? YES! Can your said, "No." He said, "You spoke these words to
unsaved children be saved? YES! Can God me: 'There is a NEW SEASON coming for
perform the impossible? YES! Man says it you'." At the time I had spoken these words to
can't be done, God says it can be done. YES! him, he was still employed in the secular world.
Does Jesus still heal people today? YES! Is Praise God! He is now in full-time ministry!
Jesus Christ the same - yesterday, today and Song of Solomon 2:10-13 says: "My beloved
tomorrow? YES! The Holy Spirit was saying to spoke, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my
them - I CAN DO IT! The Lord is saying that fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is
He has prepared you for a New Season. You past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers
need to daily read and meditate on God's Word, appear on the earth; the time of the singing of
over and over again in your mind and spirit. birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is
Ps. 1:2-3 - "Blessed is the man that walketh heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth
not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor her green figs, and the vines with the tender
standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my
the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in fair one, and come away". It is time to worship
the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he God and hear His voice. Enjoy the NEW
meditate day and night. And he shall be like a SEASON of God's LOVE, JOY and PEACE!
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YOUNG ENGLISH WOMAN married He was utterly at a loss to account for this, and looked, until it seemed to
a man in the Government service. and said to her: "I don't know how this him as if it were Christ Himself
AHer husband was a light-hearted happened but to make up for it, you may hanging on that Cross, and
young man, who smoked, drank and ask what you like, and I will give it to you.” saying: "I died for you."
gambled like the other young men of his She quietly and earnestly said: "Come "For me, Lord?" and there, in
set. As the years went on, he was with me to the Church service tonight. soul agony, he called on the
promoted in service, had large responsi- That will be my present." Saviour to save him and to put
bilities, but he became a hardened "Oh, no," he said, "I cannot do that; come away from him forever the
gambler and the leader of a circle who on, ask for some present." But she stood desire for all sin.
boasted that they could individually drink firm, and reminded him that he had Like the "chief of sinners he fell
a bottle of whiskey and be nothing the promised. When the time came for his wife to the earth" (Acts 9:4) and
worse for it. to go to the service, he overheard the upon his knees in his own
As the husband went deeper into sin, his children say to her: "Do you think father house, with no one near but
wife, through anxiety on his account, will go with us?" God, he acknowledged his
became deeply worried about her soul, "Yes," she said, "your father has never "manifold transgressions"
and as a lost, guilty sinner (Rom. 3:9-19), broken a promise to me." (Amos 5:12), and accepted the
cast herself and all her burdens on the He had no choice! Later that evening, after Lord Jesus Christ as his own
Saviour, and became a new creature in they had returned from the service, one of and only Saviour. He believed
Christ, with one burning desire, to bring the pictures in the hallway caught his eye. on Him "Who was delivered for
her husband to Christ as well. For thirteen It was a picture of Christ on the Cross of our offences, and was raised
years she prayed with never-failing faith Calvary. He never liked the picture, but again for our justification"
that the Lord would convert her husband. tonight it smote him to the heart. Words he (Rom. 4:25), and rose from his
Every Sunday she would ask him to had long forgotten came to mind: "He was knees, a free man, with Christ
accompany her to church and he as often despised and rejected of men; a Man of as his Saviour and almighty
refused. He would say: "If you will go with Sorrows, and acquainted with grief...He Deliverer!
me and my friends once, I will go forty was wounded for our transgressions, He That very night he went to his
times to church with you." She refused. was bruised for our iniquities...the old companions and told them
One Christmas Eve the husband went to chastisement of our peace was upon Him; what the Lord Jesus had done for him. At first they
dinner with his friends before going home and with His stripes we are healed" (Isaiah thought he was joking, and laughed at him, but
to his wife and children with his usual 53:3-5). eventually they had to admit that if God can save a
Christmas presents. He was in good His wasted past and the prospect of an drinking, gambling, swearing sinner of the deepest
spirits and laughingly distributed the gifts. awful Eternity rolled in like billows over his dye, and make him a new creature in Christ, He can
To his horror he found that he had for the soul. He realised that his only hope for save anyone! HE IS ALSO BOTH ABLE AND
first time since he was married, forgotten peace was in this One, Who was despised, WILLING TO SAVE YOU!
to buy his wife a present. rejected, wounded and bruised. He looked [From: The Railway Messenger, December 1996].