This word is submitted by Bill Hardaway (WHard1954@aol.com)

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New Beginnings

Are you at the end of your rope?

Many of you are under some of the worst trials and situations of your life. No matter what you try to do to relieve the pressure, nothing works. One problem will be solved and two more will pop up. In fact, you feel like the camel that is waiting for the last straw to land on its back! You have rebuked the enemy until you are blue in the face and have had everyone you know pray for you, but nothing seems to work for long. You are tired and beat and just can't seem to walk with God like you used to. You cry out to God and it seems like the Heavens are brass. You are just out of energy to follow God, you are ready to give up!

What God is doing is bringing you to the end of your own strength, so He can fill you with His. All is not lost or hopeless, do not believe what the enemy has been whispering into your ear. You are not the world's greatest spiritual failure! God is bringing us all to a point where we can no long walk with Him using the methods and ways of the past. When we are weak..........we are strong! God wants us to rely on his strength, not ours! It is time to burst out of our "white washed tombs" and burst forth into the presence of the living God.

God wants us all to have a new beginning with Him. God's ways are not our ways and it is time for us to forsake our old ways and to follow Him. I have been hearing 2 words lately.........New Beginning! This is not the end, all is not lost..........this is just the new beginning of your walk with God! Of course what you have been going through has been painful, of course you feel like you are at the end of your rope. But we all need to "give up on ourselves" and the ways we have followed in the past and let God lead us into the realm of the Spirit!!!

If you walk in the Spirit, you will not fulfill the desires and lusts of the flesh!!! It is time to start walking in the Spirit, but not by our own strength, but according to His. Give up!..............let it all go!..........Give it all to God and rest in Him!!! We have been carrying our own burdens far too long!!!! It is time to move into God's rest and experience his peace and joy without measure!!! This is an exciting time! It is time to walk in the Spirit and know the presence and power of God!!! Rejoice because your release from the flesh is near! Here are some words God has given me lately on the new thing He is about to do. It is time for us to BEGIN our new walk with God!

Your brother in Christ,

Bill Hardaway