A 12th Month That Redeems a Year

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    Shelly Elston says:

    Dearest Beth,

    I so appreciated this devotional time with you. Your family has been in my prayers and I am wholeheartedly believing that God can redeem this year of so much heartbreak for you guys. He has done is in a mighty way for my family and, therefore, I share it every chance I get. He gets all the glory.

    The year 2010 was absolutely horrendous for my immediate and extended family. it literally started 2 days before 2010 and lasted until the very end of November. There was issue after issue and so much despair. But just when we felt our absolute lowest, God showed us just how mighty He is and a reversal occurred!

    It was the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and I was going to attend a Doctor’s appointment with my youngest brother, his wife, and their precious infant daughter who we’d been told had a malignant brain tumor with no more than 2 months left to live. My grandfather had passed away the day before. We were deep in grief. But the news we heard from the doctors that day was that there was no cancer. What had shown up on the scans and tested positive for malignancy in the OR was not found after further testing. Our little Molly had received a miracle! Our day of mourning was turned into a day of rejoicing. And Thanksgiving was celebrated that year through a veil of grateful tears.

    The year that started so horrendously and continued to supply us with one issue after another ended with a miracle just in time to celebrate Christmas. He crowned that year with His favor. And we will certainly never forget it or be the same.

    You started off our year on this blog speaking about that verse and praying that the Lord crowns our year with favor and we see His goodness. I pray that you and every one of our dear sisters closes out the year seeing His goodness and favor. The year 2010 could have been labeled the worst year of my family’s life but we now look back at it with a fresh perspective and thank God for all He taught us through those trials. Praying, and believing, you and your precious loved ones will do the same.

    So much love to you today,

    Shelly Elston

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    Missy S says:

    Beth, I am slackjawed by this post. 2013 has proved very difficult for me, too. There have been times when I sat in the floor sobbing, wondering if God had been faithful to His promise to “crown [this] year with [His] bounty.” And, in fact, I wondered it again when I read Amanda’s post about all that your family has endured this year. But God revealed the coolest thing as I pondered Amanda’s blog a few days ago. A crown is always put on last!! Ever since that day, I have been praying that God would as YET crown this year with bounty. So, today, when you showed us what the book of Esther teaches about the 12th month I could hardly believe it! How fitting that a book which has so much to say about crowns would show us how drastically God can redeem a whole year! Thank you, Siesta Mama. I am praying and believing with all my heart that He will do it for your family and my own (and for all our siestas). Love you!

    P.S. Until a few days ago, the paper crown you had us make at the beginning of the year had been stored away in a box because we moved earlier in the year. It is now displayed front and center on my kitchen counter so that I am constantly reminded to pray for God to do His thing!

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    Diana A. says:

    What a Glorious Message on a Glorious Day!

    After 2 1/2 years of struggle for our whole family to pay for our youngest son to attend schooling that was really beyond our financial means, God gave him a job today!

    Our lives had been so impacted negatively by the hit of the cost, my heart despaired to God that He may have forgotten us… to not pay bills on time, to eat poorly, to be in collections with creditors- an ugly year indeed. I was questioning why things had to get so bad, and be so very hard… then 1 interview with His Glorious Grace, the the struggle seems to have melted away, and I can say that the despair has turned to great rejoicing.

    Today the new beginning has occured, the worry is over, and God’s Goodness wins the battle. We are still in great need, but there is hope in knowing every sacrfice, hardship, and worry has been overcome by a son’s success because of his schooling.

    Blessed is the Name of Jesus Christ!!!

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    Lisa says:

    I am floored. I don’t even know what to say! The timing of this is absolutely no accident. This has been by FAR the most difficult year for my family. It began with my mother’s very unexpected, sudden death. It continued with uncertainty so great that I thought it would crush me at times. We’re still in the waiting time, but God has been leading me to very specific Scripture that ALL clearly calls for me to trust Him. I have never been more fervently in His presence than I have this year, and He is responding in ways that — although He has allowed me to lay many ebenezers along the path this year — are fresh, new, and wonderful each and every time. I will never get enough of Him.

    Here is the verse He placed on my heart just last night, and I hope another will be encouraged by it:

    She is clothed in strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future. ~ Proverbs 31:25

    Thank you. THANK YOU!

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    “We wish to make known to you the Grace of God…that in a great ordeal of affliction, their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed”… II Cor 8:1-2. This year has been full of heartache for us as well. Believing with you that God’s Grace will be all over you and Melissa and Amanda. Grace multiplied upon Grace. II Pet 1:2. I loved this video because: You are an instrument in the Hands of God for all of us. Thank you for your courage and hope in Him.

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    K. M. says:

    Beth, I have never seen one of your blog posts before, but this one had me in tears by the end. This year has been such a roller coaster for me and for my family. Four days into January, my parents lost their home of 39 years, in a fire. My mom was already off work with severe depression and for the first four months of the year, we feared for her life. My sister also had a miscarriage early this year. Those things have been turned around by God–my mom found the right dr and medication and she’s better than ever, my parents are living in their brand new home, they moved in a few weeks ago, and my sister got pregnant again and is due the end of December. I see how God has turned those things around and I’m in awe.
    In my own life, the love of my life, who I thought was an answer to my prayers, who I intended to marry, told me in September eh no longer loved me, for no reason he could tell. I have struggled so much with this. In my heart, I felt God telling me it would turn around by Christmas. I’m not sure if that was really God imparting that on my heart, or if it was my own wishful thinking. After hearing your blog, I am praying with renewed vigour that God indeed has plans to release me from this loneliness and regret, and that indeed there will be a turn around in my life in this twelve month.

    Thank you for your ministry.

    Snncerely, k.

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      Ellie says:

      Just reading through the comments on this post and wanted you to know that you are being prayed for. Praying the words of Hosea 2:15 over you and your family.(“From there I will give her her vineyards,and make the Valley of Achor (Trouble) a door of hope”) May the Lord turn your valley of trouble into a door of hope.

      • K.M. says:

        Thank you. I appreciate the prayer ๐Ÿ™‚ I find lately God is directing me to receive that he can do the impossible, and now I wait for it in anticipation. The waiting is so hard though. I have to be honest.

        Blessings to you as well ๐Ÿ™‚

        K.M.

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    Betty M says:

    Dear Beth,
    I am so sorry this has been such a tough year for you and yours and am praying that it will redeem itself yet!! Sometimes those most valued lessons in life come in those wrappings of challenges and even crises (remember the root word of crisis is opportunity)! I am reminded so much of Joseph back in Genesis when he makes the remark “you meant it for evil God meant it for good!” Some good will come of it I am positive.
    For us, our turn around came in the twelfth hebrew-ish month!!! You see our kids are all grown and gone but due in large part to the serious illnesses they each struggled through as kids and young adults, none of them have married. I have earnestly prayed for them. Scott,our youngest is a lineworker and is home most weekends and helps on our farm/ranch operation. Every year I have seen him sigh at Christmas time. He seems happy enough but I know he has felt lonely. To make a long story shorter, he met the love of his life in Mar of this year! His life and so did ours, turn around!! His fiancee’s name is… you guessed it Beth!!! She is a wonderful Christian girl and our lives have really been upside down helping him build a small home on some ranch land preparing for the marriage come next June! He is 36 and I know I have prayed for him all of 15 years already. Our oldest daughter too seems to have a significant one in her life he is from Norway!
    We are rejoicing in this year and I remember posting last Jan on the LPM blog that I felt this was going to be a great year.
    So for some of us things have turned around in a great way but we still know for many others it has not. My prayers will be ever for you that your challenges will turn into Christ centered victories in what ever way they need to.
    Here is my prayer that this 12th month does redeem itself for you all!
    Love from the frigid Dakota air!!
    Betty M

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    Michelle Baylerian says:

    Dearest Beth,

    Your post couldn’t have been more timely. As you spoke about God redeeming 2013, it felt as if you spoke this just for me!! I’ve had a very difficult year medically with one thing after another going wrong. Despite doing everything right, I’ve gone backwards from a medical standpoint. I balled in my Dr’s office yesterday frustrated that I’m not getting better. I had believed the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart that I would be at a healthy place by the end of the year. As we are getting closer, my belief has faltered. Did I hear him right? There’s no way it can be done in that time frame!! I’m now going to ask my Father to turn this year around so I can proclaim His faithfulness.

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    Tanya says:

    You know Beth I really love this word. This year has been GOOD for me. I lost a fiance but it was GOOD. I think this time of year though carries with it a tremendous lack of good…I love the redemption part but I really dislike all the to-do Your building is beautiful and I take my daughter to see the lights and enjoy that too but personally I really just feel so pressured to do the decor and the gifts and the goings and the comings and I fight with people not to get so much stuff that we don’t use or need. So the word to remember the JOY at the end of the year…I will pray. Nothing puts it in my heart better that it being written in the word of God with life examples. You are a blessing. I have prayed for your family this year and your sister Gail and I just want to let you know so. Also memorized nearly all of James. But not verbatim…I just know the main ideas and themes. I was able to get threough the first 2 chapters at one point though.

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    StacieHope365 says:

    AMEN

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    Ashley says:

    2013 has beaten the crap out of me. I’ve grieved from depths I didn’t know possible – through the deaths of family, of love, and of dreams. This was a timely word and I’m praying the God turns this year around and redeems the struggle. He’s there in the midst of heartache and grief.

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    Amy says:

    Wow! I literally just told my husband yesterday that I felt like I was having post traumatic stress. All of the Christmas lights and decorations are reminding me of the fear I was filled with during this season last year. How sad is that?

    A year ago, in December, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. My children were 8 and 4 at the time. Last year we went through the Holidays not knowing what 2013 would hold for us. I vividly remember My husband driving myself and our daughters around to look at Christmas lights and all I could think about was if it would be the last Christmas I spent with them.

    Surgeries, chemo, losing my hair, fear, and all the other things that come with cancer have made 2013 the most difficult year of my sweet families life. But, we made it through. I am cancer free and in love with The Lord more now, than ever. I can’t wait to see what The Lord brings as I pray this prayer and close out this 12th month! Thank you Beth!

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    Laura says:

    Amen Beth!!! This is a word of hope from God to me and I join you in prayer for our family from such a year of upheaval and for others in my heart who can say the same. We have been praying to survive but you have given me a fresh word from God!!! We will stand amazed at all He is doing in the 12th month <3

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    Mary Jen says:

    “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come.”2corinthians 5:17

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    Susan Miles says:

    What I know is that God’s strength truly is in my and my family’s weakness. That authenticity in Christ is a sucker-punch to the evil one. That part of the redemption of it all is to give encouragement to others to see our perseverance when perhaps they have felt so singled out or isolated in suffering. Thank you for being a real person in a real family.

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    Mary G. says:

    Dearest Beth,
    Thank you for a wonderful word! Just this morning I spent sobbing into my pillow as I was once again rejected by my mother. Feeling the pain of rejection searing my soul once again. As I have been going to therapy and my therapist tries to tell me my value…she has said to me Mary, I have never met anyone who has gone through so much and come out of it with such a beautiful heart. I would just think I am in no way beautiful in any way, shape, or form. Because of my family’s rejection I felt like my therapist was trying to make me believe a lie every time she spoke of my value. Today for the first time in my life I felt like my mind and heart awakened – maybe they are wrong?
    It sounds so simple but I thought what if I started to agree with not only the people that value me, but the God who values me. Maybe my life doesn’t have to be based on what is my family’s truth that I am worthless – that maybe their truth is a lie. I have spent so much of my life hiding. What a surprise it has been as I step out to see that if I have the courage to speak people are interested in what I have to say. I don’t have to remain quiet and invisible. Just maybe I can be seen and heard and be loved. Here in this twelfth month it would seem He is opening the prison doors and my heart finally is awakening to my value as His beloved child.

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    M. Holland says:

    Beth, Just wanted to share with you how much this blog hit home with me. I too and my family and friends have been overcome with this “Black Cloud” I have been calling it. God meant for me to hear this and relay to you that my 12 month as of yesterday has mad a tremendous turn around with nothing but a miracle from God. Only God could turn a financial burden around and wipe the slate clean. We were totally amazed and in disbelief. I know our great God is not finished with turning our other situations around as well and we will be blown away again. Waiting for complete Joy to come to my family and friends in the name of Jesus.The turn around has begun and the 12th month is not over. Appreciate you Beth and this wonderful message from God.

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    Donna Timmons says:

    Precious Beth..what a joy to hear this message..thank you for being so obedient..listening and sharing just what I needed to hear! This has been a horrible year for us as well. Losing mom the way we did was devastating and we walk through it a day at a time. Our blessing has been that all four of us siblings will be together in this 12th month for the first time in years…my brother and sister in law are here all the way from Australia…God had this planned for a whole but I had no idea it would fall in the 12th month…wow! As I write I am crying ..both tears of sadness and of joy….for this first holiday without my mom has been excruciating painful but listening to your words really give me hope…for an awesome turnaround in this family and in my heart and soul as well. .l love you so much sweet sister…you have a special place in my heart..always! Big hugs and soo much love,Donna

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    Tammy says:

    This post is amazingly relevant for my family. I give God all Praise for His tenderness towards us when life is hard and painful. This year without a doubt has been one of the most difficult for my marriage, husband and two sons. My husband continues to talk about all the struggles this year has brought. Our wedding anniversary is Dec.30th and we will celebrate 24 years. The number 24 is significant to us …. we meet on 24th, my favorite #is 2 and his is #4. My husband told me on Valentines Day that he would marry me all over again. He then gave me a beautiful ring that he said symbolized the second half of life together. I am surprising him on our anniversary with a wedding vow renewal and anniversary celebration. Pray it all goes well:))) I cannot think of a better message that reflects our present season of life. God is our Glorious Redeemer! Thank you Beth, blessings to you and your family.

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    LaDonna says:

    Beautiful! This hit the nail on the head!
    Praying this too!!!

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    KariB says:

    In my devotional God gave me Jeremiah 31:16 & 17… Promising me that He Will bring my children back to their borders! Yay! I have been praying for their return for some time now and this wonderful promise has filled me with such joy! Its beginning to turn! Thank you Beth for your very timely devotion today….I am sooo grateful you listen to the heart of God and share so much with us! You are such a beautiful soul and Im blessed to have your teachings and devotions and your influence in my life!!!
    Blessing to you dear sister!

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    SF says:

    This word from God couldn’t have been more for me. 2013 has been a very rough year. My husband and I have been trying to get pregnant since January (month 1!), we had a miscarriage in April, and it seemed to be taking us such a long time to get pregnant again. By November, the enemy was beginning to have me believe that it would never happen. I cried out before God and asked Him so many times, is there something wrong? Why is this taking so long?

    And on December 3rd, my sister who has only been married since May told me she was pregnant. That morning, the enemy had me feeling in complete despair… but just a few hours later, we learned that we were pregnant too — in month 12! It has been an all-year journey to this point, and I feel God whispering to me in so many ways that He’s got this one (your blog being one of them, along with Psalm 107:29-30 which He kept bringing to my attention throughout November). And just as it was in Esther, literally on the day that the enemy meant something for my demise, God completely reversed it and brought something wonderful out of it. Praise God!!

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    GJ says:

    Dearest Beth – typing through tears. Thank you for your faithfulness to share the promptings of His Spirit.

    I am praying for a redeeming of 2013 in my heart and mind, in my family…a reversal of my attitude toward this painful year for us, and a FOCUS on what God has done and how beauty will continue to rise from ashes.

    I love you friend – what a timely word – sweet prayer – delivering hope.

    GJ

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    Kendra says:

    That is awesome sauce right there. Praying with you that God will somehow reverse the fortune for your family this year and for a few other families I know of who’ve been through a horrific 2013 so far. Thanks sismama!

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    Colette says:

    I am believing God CAN and WILL do a GREAT turn around in my family too! I have been counting down the days for this year to be over!!!! With all the chaos and heartache of this year I can honestly say I have felt so much peace and have slept so well in the last week! I know it can only be God because if you look at the circumstances my flesh should be completely freaking out right about now! So He is already working and I trust Him to restore my family and especially my son! And it won’t be from MY works!! It will be ALL Jesus! And He will get all the recognition and glory for it! Thank you Lord and Thank you Beth!! I am filled with Joy and expecting my Miracle this 6th day of the 12 month!! ๐Ÿ™‚

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    Dawn says:

    Oh Beth! Thank you so much for this devotional this morning. We all have tough years and mine no less has been racked and shaken with trials too. My brother-in-law found out he had brain cancer (stage 4) and we lost my father-in-law very very unexpectedly. My husband’s side of the family is really struggling. Plus, my side of the family is full of addiction and our own problems. Today I’m believing in God to do the unimaginable. To restorte all the devil thought he could take from us. To build a faith in us so mighty that the enemy will have no choice but to flee. Renewing a steadfast spirit in us that God will show up and turn all the hardships around. I pray this not only for my family but yours and those of this blog community. December is a month to be joyful, sometimes we forget with all the busyness that goes on. I pray that we all stop and give Him thanks for bringing us all this far through the year and He will carry us into 2014 VICTORIOUS!!

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    Jill says:

    Beth, I thank The Lord for the heart-warming messages he shares through you and your diligence to his word. His timing is always perfect; I just started following your blog yesterday. Thank you for using scripture to put the year into a hopeful big-picture perspective. I always learn something new from your lessons. I pray that God will give you and your family a clear turn around this month and show his love and grace to his faithful servants.

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    Stephanie arnett says:

    This 12th month has actually brought the worst news to an otherwise fabulous year. We are due with a baby in April and just received results that he has a 90% chance of being still born and even if he is born alive, his heart defects will cause him to have a very short life, hours most likely. We are searching for joy in what will be a very tough several months. God is faithful and we are praying for him to be near. Even though this devo was about turning it around, I am praying that God will use this trial in our lives to turn around the lives of others who are far from Christ or do not know him. But we sure would love your prayers as we go through this time.

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    Laura M says:

    It has been a rough year. Two of my grandparents passed away. A close family friend passed away. My boyfriend of 4 years has been unemployed for over a year now. I personally went through a difficult job transition. A girl I went to high school with committed suicide this week. Everywhere I turn I see grief! Yes I have grown so much closer to the Lord during this year and I am SO thankful to Him for that. Now, I am hoping things begin to turn around! I am praying with you Beth that the 12th month will redeem it all!!

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    Janice Hilt says:

    Oh Beth! This year has been hard for not only our immediate family but also our church family. We went through a church split. I’ve never gone through a divorce but those who have said that’s what it felt like. This devotion is EXACTLY what I needed today…an answer to my prayer of the last 2 mornings. I’m agreeing with you in prayer for your family and ours. Thank you so much.

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    Irene Talaasen says:

    Dear Beth, That devotional this morning was just what I needed to hear and trust!! 2013 has been so hard for my family and for reversal to happen would be His miracle. Writing through tears and believing Him to be victorious for all of our families. You are such a dear to hear the Lord’s Word and share it with us. Blessings and love,
    Irene

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    Rosalye says:

    Oh, Beth, how timely that was! Last night I was writing to a friend who has a grandson in jail. At one point in the letter I put down my pen needing a word from The Lord, and went to bed, trusting that He would give me His word by morning. I woke up with the word “redemption” and then saw your devotional! How good is our God! And how faithful!

    This is a life-long friend who was raised Jewish. I have been witnessing to her for over 40 years! Your devotional gave me the meat I needed in addition to the fact that God is in the redemption business and that is what Jesus came to do.

    Thank you for allowing Him to use you in such a powerful way! You, Amanda and Melissa remain on my prayer list.

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    Lorrie says:

    Thank you for this devotional! And thank you to all the women who’ve shared their struggles and Gods’ victories in there life in the comments. I sat crying while reading them! For the past 5 years my husband has been looking for a job. At the beginning of this year I felt like this was going to be our year. That he was finally going to get a job, and our season in the wilderness would finally be over. But instead it’s been our hardest year with unexpected expenses, and medical bills. Recently, my husband applied for a job that matches his skill set perfectly. I don’t know if God will redeem our year by giving him that job, but I know that no matter how he redeems it He will be glorified! I’m trusting him to give me eyes to see his redeeming work in my life! Thank you for remaining committed to sharing with us what God is teaching you!

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    Syneva says:

    Little did I know when God led me to open your e-mail today that it would answer some questions about a blessing He gave our daughter, grandchildren and us yesterday. It has been a very difficult year. Both my husband and I have had many medical issues. Our daughter had to file for divorce, (interestingly an answer to prayer I did not expect, for a very difficult marriage). There has been much stress for our family but especially our grandchildren. After many changes in our grandchildren’s lives this past year, our daughter was going to have to take the children out of the Christian school they were in because of finances. This was to be a change we could hardly bear as the atmosphere of the school has given them stability. Just yesterday they were told they could stay at the school and finances would be worked out. Our joy and gratefulness in God’s goodness in allowing this, for now, is more than we could ever have asked for.

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    kathypinkbicyclearkansas says:

    Reverse the tables! 2013 has been one of the very worst for me. My birthday is the first week of January and I spent it in the neurosurgeon’s office. The last week of January I had a Myleogram which lead to a spinal fluid leak and February 1 I was in the hospital receiving a blood patch. February 8 I had spinal fusion surgery and have been “recovering” since that time.I am still in pain and am currently undergoing treatment at the Pain Clinic with injections in to my spinal cord.

    There have been many other trails this year that I cannot share and I am weary, I am overwhelmed.

    Yes, Lord make this a 12th month of joy!

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    Lots of Questions says:

    Clinging to the hope in your powerful message.

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    Vanessa says:

    Perfect timing as usual with your post, Ms. Beth. 2013 has been one of the hardest years for my family and myself in general. Thank you for your encouragement and speaking the truth.

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    Mary Lou Smith says:

    Oh Beth what a wonderful word. I have a close friend who’s almost like a daughter to me, she received papers yesterday that she’s being sued because of an ACCIDENT. I can hardly wait to share this with her – she needs to stay with the Lord (Neh 6:3) and endure until her 12 month turnaround comes. God is so good to give us His word. As the Gaithers sing: God is good, yes He is, He’s good all the time. Thank you so much for encouraging us. I’m so sorry about your family heartaches but so glad you’re continually turning to the Lord.

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    Okie Murray says:

    Beth, Thank you for that wonderful post! My daughter and family have had a traumatic year! As you know if daughter, precious in the world to me, has an awful year, Mama’s heart is split in two. I spent most of last night praying for those young’uns, as we say, in Charleston. I know God is going to make the light shine in this dark place and we will “taste and see that the Lord is good!” during this last of this 12th month. We lov u! Merry Christmas, Everyone!

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    Alison says:

    I too want to see this year end differently than it has gone for 11 months.

    Come, let us return to the Lord.
    He has torn us to pieces;
    now he will heal us.
    He has injured us;
    now he will bandage our wounds.
    In just a short time he will restore us,
    so that we may live in his presence. ~Hosea Chapter 6

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    Paula says:

    Beth, I am so grateful for you and what God has done in your life and poured into ours in the Body of Christ. 2013 has been probably the worst year for my family that I’ve seen in my sixty-one years on this planet. Only one, that I can think of, comes close. I have seen God do some amazing reversals recently for my family but I am desperately in need of one for myself. I am taking this word as my own. A scripture that blessed me recently is found in Psalm 149. “He beautifies the meek with victory.” I thought of this when I was watching your video. Thank you Beth. I am on my final week of the James study as well and God has been changing me through His glorious word. Blessing on you and your family this month.

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    Jacqueline M says:

    Thanks for your devo today Beth! It was such a word in season for me, as it’s been a year of change and so much fear has come along with that. New job, new schedule, sold our home, living with in-laws until spring, to name a few. I have had a lot of anxiety toward the end of this year and find myself reaching for quick fixes like food or coffee to feel “happy” I know the Lord is the only one who can do this for me amidst all the changes and fear. I want Him to be my strength, my joy, my all and to redeem this year for His Glory! This is exactly what I needed. I can’t wait to share what He does. Believing in faith that He will do it!!!
    ~Jacqueline M

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    Barbara says:

    Dear Beth,

    Thank you so much for this devotional. This year started well and then became incredibly painful. Thank you for the encouragement to cling on to hope. I have been playing “Anchor” by Hillsong almost every day just to remind myself.

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    Michelle O'Banion says:

    !Thank You soooo much Mrs. Beth! <3

    God is definitely up to something, because your devotional on this subject is the 2nd time this week I've heard this same teaching!! —————

    "Yes, Lord, Crown 2013 with Your Goodness. !WE NEED YOU!"

    Much Love and Much Prayers……<3

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    Beth, thank you so much for this post. I know how difficult this year has been for your family and I so appreciate how you encourage us even as you walk a tough road.

    2013 has been a very difficult year for me as well. I lost the job of my dreams in full-time ministry at the end of 2012. I can’t tell you how many ministry positions I applied for, interviewed for, and made it to the top 2-3 candidates for and the offer would go to someone else. I had to give up the home I rented in a city I loved, and move in with my daughter and her family for half the year. I have rarely felt so unsure of what God was trying to do in my life. I’m still not sure that I know all those answers!

    I was offered a position and started a new job at the end of October. It is a ministry position but not on staff at a church, which is where I always thought I would be again. I’m enjoying this new adventure but even this transition to the new job/town/home has been filled with bumps along the way! So again, I’m just trying to figure out what in the world God is doing! ๐Ÿ™‚

    All that to say that I am so encouraged to pray that God will redeem this last year of my right here in the last month of the year. That He will do something so marvelous that the year will not close as having been one of the worst of my life!

    Much love to you and yours…looking forward to seeing you in January!!
    Holly

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    Kathy says:

    Thank you for this post. I believe the Lord used it to speak a Word to me. This year, the enemy has sought to destroy my family. My husband has filed for a divorce. This has been the hardest year of my life. The court date to finalize the divorce is January 13. I am going to pray with everything I’ve got for an entire reversal of what the enemy intended for harm. I pray that God would do something so powerful in this 12th month to overturn the destruction and give us the victory. Please pray with me for my marriage and family.

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    Courtney Beth Burnside says:

    Praise God, for your wonderful love and grace, give us wisdom and discernment for every step, draw us closer to you give us new mercies every morning. Numbers 6:24-27 love&prayers, God Bless us, everyone!xoxo cb

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    Lynne says:

    This devotional was so powerful!

    Thank you!

    Blessings, Lynne

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    Janice Brown says:

    This message was a total and complete blessing this morning!

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    Poorna Diaz says:

    You have NO idea how much I needed this! Thank you for sharing, Siesta Mama.

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