"Blessed Another Year"
Psalm 65:11

Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.

This year is almost at its end and we have come this far because God has
crowned us with his goodness for another year. Each child of God can cry out
to the Lord
in praise and thank him for being "blessed another year". Life is a precious
gift that God has given to each one of us and he has allowed us to live
through
this year in life, health and strength. We may not be as healthy as we would
like to be but all through this year the Lord has given to us the light of
another day for three hundred and fifty-two days. We have truly been
"blessed another year". This has been a very troublesome year for many, many
people
because of the bad economy but when you know God and he knows you, nothing
can make you become discouraged because the Lord is right there to sustain
and
to uphold you.

This nation is living in terror for the first time in its history and those
living without God in their life are living in fear of the loss of their
life
due to some type of terrorist act. We the saints of the Most High God don't
live in fear because we can say, "By this I know that thou favourest me,
because
mine enemy doth not triumph over me", (Psa 41:11). The spirit and the soul
of the saint is unconquerable and our proof of the pudding is in the fact
that
we have been "blessed another year".

God didn't bless us day after day because we were so good and righteous; the
word tells us that all of our righteousness is filthy rags. But he blesses
us because he is merciful to us and sheds his grace upon us; the child of
God is the apple of God's eye. He even sheds his grace and mercy upon the
evil
and the good; those who have not called upon him for the salvation of their
souls. I know that it is impossible but when you have a few minutes at the
end of this year recall how God has blessed you through the year and thank
him for his goodness unto you.

Psa 5:12
For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him
as [with] a shield.

Pro 14:18
The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

Hbr 2:7
Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with
glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:

Psa 25:10
All the paths of the LORD [are] mercy and truth unto such as keep his
covenant and his testimonies.

Psa 104:3
Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds
his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

Joe 2:14
Who knoweth [if] he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him;
[even] a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

Hag 2:19
Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the
pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will
I bless [you].

Mal 3:10
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine
house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not
open
you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that [there shall]
not [be room] enough [to receive it].

Psa 36:8
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou
shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

Rom 11:17
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive
tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and
fatness
of the olive tree;


A fruitful harvest requires faithful service.
 Galatians 6:9 states,
And let us not be weary in well doing:
for in due season we shall reap,
if we faint not.
YBIC, Thomas, And YSIC, Linda.
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