Warm hellos to you dear brethren, co-workers, spiritual family on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and scattered children of God, from our offices here in Spanish Fort, AL.

My wife and I pray and hope this finds you all doing well, and that again your week has been blessed.

I’ve been reflecting a good part of this week, and it is hard to envisage we have just finished this year’s Feast of Tabernacles and Eighth Day/Last Great Day. Another year on the books as we often say. We believe God answered our combined prayers and blessed His Feast!  All reports convey that you all have arrived safely back in your homes and communities.  Thanks for making the Feast a success with your part in service, cooperation and spiritual unity. I believe this was indeed one of the best Feast’s we’ve experienced yet, and am still on a high from the blessing of being with God’s children.

A short six months away from now the Spring Holy Days of the Bible will arrive: Passover, the Night to Be Much Observed, the Days of Unleavened Bread, and, as summer nears, the Feast of Pentecost.

Wait, you say, didn’t we just finish the Feast of Tabernacles?

True enough, but let’s keep looking to the future! God’s Festivals are a cycle and how best to gain momentum than to ride that cycle into and through the coming year!

That is the essence of Godly thinking. Looking to the future and the coming of God’s Kingdom on Earth is the engine of our faith and the motivation to stay close to God and His way of life outlined in the Bible.

We observed God’s Feast two weeks ago carefully with this concept of looking at the Holy Days as a lens of meaning. What incredible meaning is opened up to us by keeping the Feasts of God in sincerity!

Yet, around us the world is filled with tragedy. The unrest here in the U.S. is only a tip of the proverbial iceberg in the grand scheme of things in the world as a whole.  In an attack that sent France reeling, on Friday afternoon, October 16, in broad daylight, a French schoolteacher was beheaded on a suburban street for teaching his students a required lesson about free speech. Samuel Paty, 47, was murdered close to the school where he taught by an 18-year-old Chechen immigrant (identified only as Abdoulakh A.) who had come to France as a child refugee.

Abdoulakh then posted images of Paty’s severed head on his Twitter account along with insults aimed at French President Emmanuel Macron and French “infidels” and “dogs.” Witnesses reported hearing Abdoulakh shout “Allahu Akbar (God is Greatest)!” during the attack. Abdoulakh had been waiting for Paty before attacking him with a knife and inflicting him with multiple head wounds.

Here in the U.S. I am always amazed at how most of our “news” centers around this country…some act as if the world does not matter. Tensions build because so many simply do not understand what the good news of the future is. Polarization occurs on a grand scale when choosing which person will solve any nation’s problems.

We will soon see similar things happening here even in this country with the announcement of who has won the presidential election. Human beings don’t change without a true relationship with their Creator.

How do we stay focused on God in the face of these challenges that never seem to end? This mountain of tragedy in France, and many others, when will it end?

We must keep going! We analyze by seeing these events for what they are, the debris of the Devil Satan and his effort to dominate the world with violence. Mankind is easily swayed to follow along and do his bidding. Our own nature creates havoc even of its self.

We know that God has the final say about ruling the world and our focus on that future will help us climb over tragedies like this and unrest at every turn.  As I mentioned in my 7th day sermon message during the Feast of Tabernacles, we must be living for that Kingdom and
“Keep our Focus on the Kingdom of God!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPTlq7BfMNk .

Arms up friends! Our prayers and thoughts are with you daily. Please do pray for us as well.