By Joseph Ametepe
It’s my pleasure and privilege to pronounce God’s blessings upon you in the new month of February 2025. O how refreshing to know that God’s blessing makes rich and He adds no sorrow to it (see Proverbs 10:22)! May you be richly and refreshingly blessed by YAHWEH - SHALOM (“THE LORD IS PEACE” [Judges 6:24]) in February 2025! May the Spirit grant that though you walk in the flesh, you will not wage war in the flesh! For He says: “Though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds” (2 Corinthians 10:3-4; ESV). May the Spirit of God enable you to “destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5; ESV)! May the Lord bless you with the discipline of not comparing yourselves with those who are commending themselves (2 Corinthians 10: 12a)! For those who compare themselves with one another, are without understanding (2 Corinthians 10:12b). May the Spirit of the Lord empower you to use the authority the Lord gave you for building up others and not for destroying them (2 Corinthians 10:8)! May the Spirit of God bless you with the joy of boasting in the Lord (2 Corinthians 10:17) as your chief aim in life! May the Lord grant that you will not be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ (2 Corinthians 11:3) in such a time as this! May you be blessed with the joy of preaching God’s gospel to others free of charge (2 Corinthians 11:7)! May the Spirit of God bless you with His discernment to recognize “false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ” (2 Corinthians 11:13; ESV) in this age of deception! “For even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds” (2 Corinthians 11:14-15; ESV). May the Spirit of the Lord richly comfort you while you share in the sufferings of Christ for the sake of the gospel (2 Corinthians 11:23-29)! May the Lord your God, make a way of escape for you from your enemies who are planning evil against your life (2 Corinthians 11:32-33)! Yes, may “the God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever” (2 Corinthians 11:31a; NASB) richly and refreshingly bless you in the month of February 2025 and beyond!