Renewal: a season of increase and enlarging!

Hosea 8 serves as a reminder that we need renewal but also the blessings of renewal.

Within renewal there comes the realisation that God gives the increase and He is the enlarger of our influence.

“Although they have sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them together.
They will begin to waste away under the oppression of the mighty king.” (Hosea 8 v 10)

Although they have sold themselves among the nations

God does not want you to reach out for things or search for people to give you what only He can ultimately give. . He came to give you a thriving life, an abundant life.

In renewal we make room for Him.

In renewal we begin to prepare for the growth God is giving.

Can you begin to desire that what you think is unchangeable about you is changed?

God isn’t at work producing the circumstances you want; God is at work in bad circumstances producing the YOU HE wants!

You may have changed your plans for God but His plans are still the same and He is waiting. His plans contain promises. Promises not for your disaster but for your abundance. Plans and promises that bring a future and a hope.

They will begin to waste away under the oppression of the mighty king.

In renewal you realise that you have not been called to diminish.
God is an Enlarger, an Increaser, the Giver of life. With God we should expect more.

God is bigger than our imaginations. His plans are big plans. Right now across the world God is moving in great measures.

We hear of so much suffering and persecution and it is real and we need to pray and stand for justice but listen to this:

The number of Christians in Indonesia has grown from 1.3M forty years ago to over 20M today.  (Operation World).

The Jesus Film has been translated into nearly 1000 languages, 6 billion viewings and over 200 million people have indicated decisions for Christ as a result of the film (Campus Crusade).

No Christian was officially allowed to live in Nepal until 1960.  Now there is a church in every one of the 75 districts of Nepal with estimates of over half a million believers (Operation World).

Why even contemplate forsaking God who is our true source of blessing. Why reach for another? God’s people reached for Assyria and it would be that nation that caused them to waste away and they exiled God’s people in 722 BC.

Choose renewal today!