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From Pastor Sheli's Weekly 'Prayer & Praise' email

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Good Afternoon Church Family! God is able and faithful! As the week nears the end, I just feel so grateful looking back over all God has done! We have been blessed with beautiful weather in our area and everything is blooming! God is bringing forth life even when everything looked brown, dried up and dead. All throughout winter, trees have had no proof of life on the outside. They are just brown branches. Flowers are not even visible in winter. Then as if by miraculous cue, we see small green signs of life on trees. Green shoots spring up all around our flower beds reminding us that they are still there. Life begins to unfold before our very eyes! One day, you drive the same way you driven for the past 4 months but you are caught off guard by how almost overnight signs of life are everywhere! Spring is a testiment to the power of God in our lives and the reason why faith isn't motivated by sight. If we just took everything at face value, it would appear that there is no hope and that there is no life. We know that simply isn't true. Just because I can't see life in the brown branches of our backyard tree doesn't mean it isn't there. And just because there are not flowers in my flower bed doesn't mean that the seed of those flowers isn't still under ground. I know it's there even when I can't see it and I know life will spring forth because it always does! God is so faithful in all He has created and the steps and process He has set in motion to bring life back every Spring. This is the tangible evidence that we can look to in the moments when we don't see our answers coming or we can't see life in our situations. We can rest assured that God is doing things even when we don't see it! He has timing, plans and processes and when we trust in Him, as if by mirculous cue, we will begin to see signs of life all around us!
The substance of faith in knowing God never changes. You know that your tree will sprout new leaves, flowers and even branches because that is how God set it in motion. It happens every year and you can count on it. Now it doesn't happen the same time every year but it happens in the same season. When God gives you a promise in His Word, you can be just a certain as you are about your promise as you are your tree. Life will spring forth! The Word says, God is faithful to ALL His promises! (Psalm 145:13) That means He will do what He has said. In Genesis 8:22, God promises "While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." And Spring is a testament that seedtime is still happening. God is still being faithful to a promise He made in Genesis! He is showing us that He is a truly faithful Father and that He can bring life to any situation that we are facing.
As you look outside, or go on a walk, or drive in your car, take a moment to look at the life that is springing up all around you. Be reminded of how faithful Your God is. Be reminded to not just go by what you see... go by the faith you have inside of you that has been tested and proven true by the God you serve. Be reminded that no matter how dead your circumstances, finances, situations, health or relationships look, with God there is ALWAYS the promise of life. So praise the Lord today as you see the beauty of Spring and praise Him for the "Spring" that is happening in whaterver you are facing today! Have a blessed rest of your week, Church Family and let's be people who just know the potential for life is always there! Happy Spring! Blessings, Pastors Sheli and Steve

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