Jeden Tag und für immer
besteht deine Liebe
Die Hoffnung vergeht nie
Halleluja!
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My German took a break for about a month. My browser wouldn't update so I wasn't able to continue my online program, much to my chagrin. I had been studying hardcore and God was equipping. My German is now better than my Chinese. How does that work? I have no idea...The only thing I can say is that I have a people to go to now. He's given me a people. He has a people. One nation, many faces, many languages, but still one nation. And I get a people! One of many to come, but I'm so excited.
As I continue to prepare for our Sunday departure from this 'home' in China one last time, I take a moment and listen to testimonies of what God is doing in Germany already. People are being healed physically, emotionally, and spiritually. A country is being re-claimed for His kingdom. A people is being called out. Those from 153 other countries partaking in the awakening are going back to their churches and sharing Jesus and the gospel with their local body. Thousands being empowered with the Word of God. This is really happening!
Tears. Tears of joy, tears of hope, tears of amazement. Tears.
I open my German program online and (as my browser finally updated) I begin to study again. As I study, I have my German music playlist on in the background (Full immersion). Du Machst Alles Neu plays. It means, "You Make All Things New".
Tears.
Promises. Pasts. Redemption. Israel. Judah. Prophets. Promises. Fear broken. Droughts over. Fields ripe with harvest. Promises. Flowers bloom. Heavens open and a holy rain pours down onto a parched and barren land.
I've been reading through Joel, Haggai, and Zechariah and have seen so many promises from the Lord Almighty to His people… If they would turn to the Lord and acknowledge Him as Lord and King, He would be merciful and gracious to them, for He is a merciful and gracious God. He said that if they would weep and fast over the people, He would turn His ear to them. If they would 'rend your hearts and not your garments', and return to the Lord, He would relent and leave a blessing. They did as the Lord Almighty required and He was gracious and slow to anger with them, He blessed them and their harvest was plentiful, their land prospered and they were in fellowship with the One God.
Die Hoffnung vergeht nie
The hope never goes away.
Has your hope gone from you? One of the speakers at the recent #AwakeningEurope conference in Europe spoke to the Germans and said that they no longer had shame of a past regime. They had a new inheritance. Their Father had placed a ring on their finger to symbolize the Power of God, a robe on their backs to symbolize the Royalty of our King, and sandals on their feet because they were made for purity.
Christian in America, have you lost hope for your country or government? Are you ashamed of what your country has become? Stop.
Your Father has come to greet you and place a ring on your finger, robe on your back, and sandals on your feet. You are pure. You are royal. You have power. You have a Father who loves you and is proud of you, so it doesn't matter what any other person in your life says to you, because this is your identity, a Child of the King.
Find hope in Hope Himself. Find love in Love Himself!
Ich will Dich loben, ich will Dich loben, ich will Dich loben, Du bist mein Gott.
