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Hello
and welcome to our new issue for 2011. We are happy you stopped by to read and
fellowship with us. We have carefully chosen articles that will help you
jumpstart your New Year and edify your Christian walk. We are excited about
adding columnists to our Christian Quarterly Magazine family; Thank you to Shanick
Moore – Shanick's Matters of the Heart; Dr. Nance MacLeod, NMD, PhD - Your Body, Your Temple; Angela Morris - Reflections
on Faith and Mark Anthony McCray – Kingdom Building and my very own daughter, Darcel Joi Jeffers - Love Life (Teens) .
I am positive that you will enjoy their articles and we thank each of them for
their obedience to this call of the Lord. I also would like to thank Carisa Sanders
and Fergus Davar, our readers who as contributing writers have submitted
articles that I am sure you will enjoy as well.
The disappointments that some of us experienced in 2010 are now in the past year. Just the fact that when we write the date and we no longer have to include the old year signifies that the New Year will somehow be different. We assess the past year and look forward to what this New Year will hold. But what does this all mean from God's perspective? Is God included in our plans for the New Year? Have we sought God's will for what He would have us to do in 2011?
One thing is for certain is that as time passes on we come closer to the coming of Christ. Are we thinking of this? I recently heard a story about a woman who picked up a hitchhiker. At first she drove right past him, but she says that the Holy Spirit prompted her to go back to pick him up. When she went back and he told her the distance in which he needed this ride, she thought to herself that he could really walk it. But she drove him anyway. As he was getting out of her car, he turned to her and said these words,"His lips are on the trumpet."
Will you be ready when He comes? Have you received Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior? Have you shared the Gospel of Christ with others? Have you entertained your angel? Have you prayed for the sinner to come to Christ and repent? The time has come for us to be kingdom minded and to know what time it is.
"After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. "The time has come," he said. "The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!" (Mark 1:14-15).
It's more than just a New Year. It's another year closer.
In closing, my brother, Ronald B. Wiggins and I would
like to dedicate this issue to the memory of our loving mother, Madeline "Cookie"
Wiggins, "Well done good and faithful servant."
The below writing was taken from my blog, Precepts by
Pamela. It is my prayer that it speaks to your spirit and wakes us up to what
time it is in God.
"The Time Has Come!"
2010 is but a distant blur and 2011 has made its full entrance, so now what? Many of us are well into our New Year's Resolutions and by this second week some have already given up on them. What is it about the New Year that makes everyone so readily embrace change? So eager to start new things and leave the old far behind? Could it be that the word "new" ignites the flame of uncharted possibilities? Does it tell us that we have the chance to do it again and maybe get it right this time?
"The Time Has Come!"
2010 is but a distant blur and 2011 has made its full entrance, so now what? Many of us are well into our New Year's Resolutions and by this second week some have already given up on them. What is it about the New Year that makes everyone so readily embrace change? So eager to start new things and leave the old far behind? Could it be that the word "new" ignites the flame of uncharted possibilities? Does it tell us that we have the chance to do it again and maybe get it right this time?
The disappointments that some of us experienced in 2010 are now in the past year. Just the fact that when we write the date and we no longer have to include the old year signifies that the New Year will somehow be different. We assess the past year and look forward to what this New Year will hold. But what does this all mean from God's perspective? Is God included in our plans for the New Year? Have we sought God's will for what He would have us to do in 2011?
One thing is for certain is that as time passes on we come closer to the coming of Christ. Are we thinking of this? I recently heard a story about a woman who picked up a hitchhiker. At first she drove right past him, but she says that the Holy Spirit prompted her to go back to pick him up. When she went back and he told her the distance in which he needed this ride, she thought to herself that he could really walk it. But she drove him anyway. As he was getting out of her car, he turned to her and said these words,"His lips are on the trumpet."
Will you be ready when He comes? Have you received Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior? Have you shared the Gospel of Christ with others? Have you entertained your angel? Have you prayed for the sinner to come to Christ and repent? The time has come for us to be kingdom minded and to know what time it is.
"After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. "The time has come," he said. "The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!" (Mark 1:14-15).
It's more than just a New Year. It's another year closer.
Pamela R. Jeffers is the CEO of her own publishing company, Harvest Time Inner-vations LLC. She is also the Editor In Chief of Christian Quarterly Magazine and the Debut Author of the new Fiction Novel, "Something Old, New, Borrowed & True". She is an educator, a writing coach, a freelance writer and entrepreneur who loves the Lord Jesus Christ and His Word.
