JOEL 2 GENERATION

Actually, FAITH always trumps fear...but this is definitely something that God is underlining/highlighting right now. There has been far too much fear dominating the Body of Christ globally. The fear has taken many different forms - from the fear of a virus that 99.83% of the people who contracted it survived without treatment, to the fear produced by the global political/financial developments and uncertainties, to the fear of the so-called "vaccine" (which they are NOT) mandates.  Everything has been and is being exposed. Who actually HAD faith? What do Christians believe about God's protection and His promises of healing? What about His promises to provide for His people? Everything has been shaken. And the glorious thing is that we KNOW that the testing of our faith produces something. It produces endurance.  What does James say?  Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,   for you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.  

I don't think the Lord could have spoken a more relevant word to us, to His Church, at the beginning of Covid than the word to go and "EXTINGUISH FEAR" in the lives of the people we would interact with.  I've shared this thought before, but it was in God's infinite wisdom that instead of just giving us a task, a mandate, during Covid, He actually intended to keep us free of any and all fear.  As we now enter into our 3rd year since this thing began to infect the planet back at the start of 2020, the mandate has not changed. God's people are to always live free from fear.  As it has been said, the commandment "Do not fear" is found something like 365 times in the Bible (I don't know if that is a scientific number as I've never counted).  The only way we were able to do that was to do the things God's commanded us to be doing - to meet together IN PERSON. To minister to each and every person we can with the truth of the Gospel and God's