What an amazing year this has been and despite what we hear on the news, my experience is that The Kingdom of Heaven is still advancing (Matt 11:12 ). But there is much work to do, so we keep advancing and ""bringing life", and we will do so not with fear, but with confidence, ("I am convinced of this, that the one who began a good action among you will bring it to completion by the Day of the Messiah Jesus."  Php 1:6 ISV).

  Over the last several years, the media has often asked the question regarding the on going wars in the Middle East, what is our ultimate goal, what's the end of these wars look like? Military men have stated that a war is unjust if there is no ultimate good end in mind. Well, in our ongoing spiritual war, we don't have to ask that question. God's purpose and end are clear, that "..the whole  earth be filled with His Glory." No matter how bleak it looks day to day, we will never give up, never stop moving forward. The church must confidently pull together in unity like never before, praying as never before, training ministers, making disciples, sending out missionaries and supporting them as never before. ("The harvest is vast, but the workers are few. So ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest." (Mat 9:37 -38 ). I know that these are difficult times financially for many, but now is not the time to pull back. Now is the time to "double down". The victory is ours if we stay faithful. "Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor's crown," ( Rev 2:10b).