HIM PRESIDENT'S CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR MESSAGE
Hi HIM Family,
As we come to the end of the year 2013, I'd like to share with us a Christmas message and also at the same time wishing us a fantastic 2014 to come. As this is the season, let me just read from Luke 2:15. It says:
Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
Favor of God upon us
God appeared, the angels appeared to the shepherds - simple people without any expectation. Yet, the revelation came to them and they saw the greatness of God that night when they were in the fields. Brothers and Sisters, as we come to this Christmas season, I would like to say what the angels said to them - on earth peace to all men and let His favor rest on us. I would like to pray God's favor for all of us, that this Christmas would be a time where we see God's favor extend into the next year.
I can see from 2013, that God’s favor has been on a lot of our churches, a lot of our leaders, a lot of our church plantings, a lot of our missions. We have certainly seen growth, we have certainly seen multiplication and we can certainly see our church strengthening as well. It is God's favor. I would really like to pray that as we enter into 2014, God's favor will rest with us.
A year of harvest 2014
We talked about harvest in 2014 and I really believe the harvest is going to come, it's going to go with us, it's going to fall upon our churches and souls and lives are going to come into the kingdom of God. Get our churches ready. Get our leaders ready so that we are prepared for the harvest.
Brothers and Sisters, I truly want to thank God for all of us that have worked as a team. I thank God for our family of churches that have held together through the thick and thin. I thank God for the covenantal relationship and the friendship that I see in our family. I'm truly a thankful and joyous man to be able to see that. I pray that as we move forward, God will continue to fill our churches with the power, with the anointing, with the supernatural in our churches. Our people will begin to lay hands on the people pray and see the power of God working through our lives.
Hope and expectation for 2014
Finally, for 2014, I really want to thank God that we look into the new year with expectation and hope. We look into 2014 with a joyous sense that we are going to see more from God. Therefore, I wish the favor of God to rest with you. Bring the peace of God to your community, proclaim it, declare it in the name of Jesus, and we are going to see that in the new year, God's going to really favor us with more. God's really going to bless us with more and we will bring the Gospel and peace to our community.
May God be with you. Let God bless your family. Let God bless the household of our churches, that everybody may enjoy this wonderful Christmas and New Year with a sense of celebration. God bless you. Talk to you again in 2014.
Pastor Simon Eng
President of HIM
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