Dear Family,

Today is Sabbath, April 15, 2023. Today is Day 7 of Week 1 in our Count to Pentecost.

If ancient Israel knew that God always finishes what He starts, would they have responded differently to the challenges that they faced in the wilderness?

Today, we can know that God always finishes what He starts! It is because what He starts is worthy to be started! It is because He is trustworthy! It is because He is faithful! It is because He keeps His Word!

He proves over and over that He completes what He starts! How many witnesses do we need? He has started a work in us that He will finish; and, He provides everything we need for life and godliness! We can trust what He promises.

2 Peter 1:3 According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

How can we become more successful in living out God’s plans for us? How can we help God, so that
He will finish what He has started in us?

• We need to buck up and throw off whatever it is that tends to make us stumble or falter.
• We need to cooperate with God; He knows what He is doing.
• We need to stay focused on God’s goal for us.
• We need to choose the inheritance God chooses for us.
• We need to avoid doing the unnecessary until we have completed the necessary.
• We need to indulge God’s pleasures before our own.
• We need to choose to please God rather than man.
• We need to listen to God; when He speaks, do it now! Not later!
• We need to be courageous!

Joshua 1:7-8 (7) Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses My servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper withersoever thou goest. (8) This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

What God starts is worthy to start. We have started out on a worthy journey; and, remember, God ALWAYS finishes what He starts! God’s intention is to bless each one of us that He can say the same about us.

Ben Faulkner, Pastor
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