Happy New Year to my Dear Friends!

Dear Friends-

I pray that your holiday has been wonderful and blessed. 2009 has been the year of completion- completion of an era or a stage of development. 2010 begins a new season of expectation, work, and return on our investments. But dear friends, please be mindful.

You can't embrace the blessings of tomorrow while holding onto baggage from the past. You can't receive when your hands are closed. Open your hands and your hearts to the opportunities that present themselves this year. Forgive the ones who let you down.

Let go of old regrets. Regret is simply disappointment because YOUR plans weren't realized. Everything that happened last year was part of God's plan for your life.

Continue to be God-filled as you experience trials and setbacks. Don't allow anyone to steal your joy. Continue to operate under the armor of God and accomplish your goals. Health, happiness, and prosperity will remain yours because you stand on His promises. Take care, God Bless, and I'll see you in 2010.

My love to you all!

K.

Psalm 21

For the choir director: A psalm of David.

¹ How the king rejoices in your strength, O Lord!
He shouts with joy because you give him victory.
² For you have given him his heart's desire;
you have withheld nothing he requested.Interlude

³ You welcomed him back with success and prosperity.
You placed a crown of finest gold on his head.
⁴ He asked you to preserve his life,
and you granted his request.
The days of his life stretch on forever.
⁵ Your victory brings him great honor,
and you have clothed him with splendor and majesty.
⁶ You have endowed him with eternal blessings
and given him the joy of your presence.
⁷ For the king trusts in the Lord.
The unfailing love of the Most High will keep him from stumbling.

⁸ You will capture all your enemies.
Your strong right hand will seize all who hate you.
⁹ You will throw them in a flaming furnace
when you appear.
The Lord will consume them in his anger;
fire will devour them.
¹⁰ You will wipe their children from the face of the earth;
they will never have descendants.
¹¹ Although they plot against you,
their evil schemes will never succeed.
¹² For they will turn and run
when they see your arrows aimed at them.
¹³ Rise up, O Lord, in all your power.
With music and singing we celebrate your mighty acts.

Praise the Lord!

Dearest Friends:

I love you and have missed you all. I hope you are all enjoying the season of our Lord's birth. Please forgive me and pray for me because it's been a struggle to deliver these messages. My new responsibilities have been overwhelming and at times, I didn't have a message to share.

I'm praying for discipline so that you will receive your messages regularly and without fail.

Whatever you stand in need of, I will be praying for you. Even when the messages stopped, my thoughts and prayers were always with you. I hope to see and speak to everyone sometime before the new year.

Stay blessed!

K.

Passage Psalm 34 (NLT):

Psalm 34

^[a]A psalm of David, regarding the time he pretended to be insane in front of Abimelech, who sent him away.

¹ I will praise the Lord at all times.
I will constantly speak his praises.
² I will boast only in the Lord;
let all who are helpless take heart.
³ Come, let us tell of the Lord’s greatness;
let us exalt his name together.

⁴ I prayed to the Lord, and he answered me.
He freed me from all my fears.
⁵ Those who look to him for help will be radiant with joy;
no shadow of shame will darken their faces.
⁶ In my desperation I prayed, and the Lord listened;
he saved me from all my troubles.
⁷ For the angel of the Lord is a guard;
he surrounds and defends all who fear him.

⁸ Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in him!
⁹ Fear the Lord, you his godly people,
for those who fear him will have all they need.
¹⁰ Even strong young lions sometimes go hungry,
but those who trust in the Lord will lack no good thing.

¹¹ Come, my children, and listen to me,
and I will teach you to fear the Lord.
¹² Does anyone want to live a life
that is long and prosperous?
¹³ Then keep your tongue from speaking evil
and your lips from telling lies!
¹⁴ Turn away from evil and do good.
Search for peace, and work to maintain it.

¹⁵ The eyes of the Lord watch over those who do right;
his ears are open to their cries for help.
¹⁶ But the Lord turns his face against those who do evil;
he will erase their memory from the earth.
¹⁷ The Lord hears his people when they call to him for help.
He rescues them from all their troubles.
¹⁸ The Lord is close to the brokenhearted;
he rescues those whose spirits are crushed.

¹⁹ The righteous person faces many troubles,
but the Lord comes to the rescue each time.
²⁰ For the Lord protects the bones of the righteous;
not one of them is broken!

²¹ Calamity will surely overtake the wicked,
and those who hate the righteous will be punished.
²² But the Lord will redeem those who serve him.
No one who takes refuge in him will be condemned.