It’s a new year. The holiday celebrations are over and we are settling back into our routines. However, I hope the excitement of a new year hasn’t wore off. I pray you are still filled with expectation for this new year. I’m believing God, that this will be a year of plenty for you! Plenty in 2020!

Perhaps 2019 had its share of difficulties and hardships. Maybe it was strenuous and consisted of lack. Regardless of what you faced last year, God can use it for your good and His glory. Our God is the greatest architect. He can even take the bad and turn it around for your good (Romans 8:28). What if God utilized the dark times of 2019, to pull you closer to Him? What if the difficulties of 2019, led you to seek and pursue God like never before? What if the hardships and lack of 2019, pruned you from unrighteousness?

We see a similar occurrence from Judah in the book of Joel. In Joel 1, we see the judgment of the Lord. The judgment of the Lord was fierce and mighty, filled with locust infestation and drought. But the judgment of the Lord created the prefect conditions for repentance. The people repented and God restored (Joel 2). After repentance comes restoration!

God indeed restored! God’s restoration reveals the great magnitude of His mercy.

‘Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:” Joel 2:19

“And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed” Joel 2:26

God restored until his people were satisfied and satiated. God restored until they were no longer a reproach. God restored so mightily, that they would never be ashamed again. God’s restoration resulted in plenty!

Can you imagine your life being full to the point of satisfaction and satiation? Can you imagine been blessed to the point others have to take notice? Can you visualize Plenty in 2020?

Is 2020 your year of restoration? Are you expecting Plenty in 2020?

I encourage you, as you experience God’s Plenty in 2020, to continue to serve and cling to Him. Luke 12:48 instructs us, “To whom much is given, much is required.” As you experience your time of plenty do not neglect the cross God has entrusted you to bear.

“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.”
Luke 9:23