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Is it just me, or did you also feel that 2024 just swooshed by in the blink of an eye? Come to think of it, doesn’t it seem as though the velocity of time has been accelerating every year, like the end of a toilet roll that spins more swiftly as it nears the end? And...

This dazzling display of celebratory glory saturated the skies and ignited the Star of Bethlehem which began to glow in the East, alerting the wise men who had been studying the stars and waiting for this particular sign a long while.

God knew Hagar by name. It didn’t matter that she didn’t know Him or care about Him. He knew her- and He had devised a wonderful plan to bless her and her progeny.

The focal point in God’s temple should be God Himself, most times visually aided by some form of symbolic or prophetic art. But what is the focal point in today’s church? It’s Us! There we loom on larger- than- life screens, with every knee drop and contorted facial expression captured in living color.

One might push back and say that in the culture of the world, civility is often sacrificed on the altar of pragmatic busyness. So much work needs to be done that there really isn’t much time left to engage in vapid pleasantries. And as long as everyone is at their work stations performing with a spirit of excellence, that’s all that really matters, isn’t it?

This strategic collaboration between the prophetess and the head-basher is a foreshadow, I believe, of the types of women God is raising and training for war in the Last Days: women who receive strategies from heaven, and women who implement those strategies with fierce bravery.

Lament redirects God’s gaze towards a broken and contrite heart, causing Him to take pause and to listen with compassion. Lament is not accusation, and it is certainly not an expression of faithless frustration with God’s methods and motives. It actually forms a deeper bond of intimacy between the lamenter and the Listener.