Amidst the political and prophetic chaos; amidst war escalating on the earth’ and amidst hatred and betrayal growing like a cancer within the Body, fight to keep your heart tender and unoffended!

Supernatural, non-circumstantial, unspeakable joy will call the lost, win our children, and sustain every assignment that will be given. Jesus turned over tables and tore His own flesh, paying the most unimaginable price to ensure this joy for us. With grateful adoration, let us return, glorify God, and enjoy Him forever.

His first entry into Jerusalem was to lay down His life as the suffering servant, to take upon Himself the sins of the whole world, and to give His life as a ransom. He still chooses lowly things to carry His presence.

At first, I thought there certainly had to be some kind of mistake. It could not be possible that there are more UPG’s now than there were when we first started working in the 10/40 Window years ago. I tried to figure out what was going on and searched through the site. Then it hit me. Joshua Project updates their statistics every ten years, and this was the new number. My heart sank. When we started working in the 10/40 Window, that number was 6,943. A decade later, the number of ethno-linguistic people groups without access to the gospel had risen to 7,403.

What does this mean?

There is an appointed end to the operation of demons and oppression within the human existence because there is a Judge who has pronounced their sentence. Jesus doesn’t merely have an aversion to sin. He is actively opposing it and will eventually eradicate it from the earth. He is the Lion that moves with strength against all that defiles beauty and love.

Isaiah saw the Son born, the Suffering Servant, the Anointed Messenger, but when He saw Jesus returning as King and Judge, he could not but help ask, “Who is this?!”.

The baby in the manager gives us confidence that He will fulfill every word of these promises with accuracy and power on earth in the same way.

If Micah was spot on that He would be born in Bethlehem, then Zechariah is spot on that He will return to Jerusalem. If Zechariah saw clearly that the King would first come humbly, riding on a donkey, then we can be confident that John saw clearly that He would return on a white horse. Isaiah saw a son born to a virgin, and that same Son carrying the government of the earth on His shoulders.

The manger gives us courage.