Warm hellos once again friends, brethren, fellow laborers, spiritual family, and scattered children of God from here on the Gulf Coast of lower Alabama. My wife and I pray and hope this finds you doing well, and that again your week has been blessed.

It’s been three weeks since my last letter, and with the daily details and observance of the Feast in Orange Beach, it sort of feels like several months have passed.

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 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 y’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’s 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 His Word, the Holy Bible.

We observed God’s Feast 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 and in truth!

Yet, around us the world remains 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.

Back in 2020, 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.

We have become so accustomed to stories like this from our news media that well, if we are not careful it’s just another day, and many say “That’s just the world we live in”. Sadly, I’m hearing this more and more by those called out of this world by God. Until it hits us personally right in the gut as they say, we go on about our daily lives.

Here in the U.S. I am always amazed at how most of our “news” still 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 or leader will solve any nation’s problems.

I believe we will soon see similar things happening here even in this country as we do across the globe. Human beings simply 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, the constant Middle East conflict, riots increasing here in the U.S. and many others, when will it end?

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

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 in 2020, we must be living for that Kingdom and “Keep our Focus on the Kingdom of God!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPTlq7BfMNk We must maintain the momentum we experienced during the Feast of Tabernacles.

Arms up friends! Our sincere prayers and thoughts are with you daily. Thanks in advance for your heartfelt prayers for us.