I always like to look and see how The Message words it ...

"But you are my witnesses." God's Decree. "You're my handpicked servant So that you'll come to know and trust me, understand both that I am and who I am.  Previous to me there was no such thing as a god, nor will there be after me.  I, yes I, am God. I'm the only Savior there is.  I spoke, I saved, I told you what existed long before these upstart gods appeared on the scene.  And you know it, you're my witnesses, you're the evidence." God's Decree.  "Yes, I am God. I've always been God and I always will be God.  No one can take anything from me. I make; who can unmake it?"

So clear to what our mission is.  To encourage one another in the Lord.  In my quiet time this morning I have been praying for my friends from work.  Two of them experienced loss this year and it has been a journey through a valley.  Nothing we can say can change that, but I think lifting a friend up in prayer and standing in the gap for them when they are in that valley is something we can do.  Jesus will give them strength to get up each day and start a fresh new day.

I am sure each of you know someone that has been in a valley.  Lift them up in prayer as you read this.  As Jesus to strengthen their minds and bodies.  Pray that through this journey they will draw closer to the Lord and that those around them will witness this and it will spark something in their life to draw closer to God.

I hope you all have a great long weekend.  I will be on vacation next week with no computer until Friday so there will not be a devotion each day.  Don't let that stop you from staying in His Word though!  Have a blessed Friday!  Count your blessings, name them one by one, count your many blessings and see what God has done!  Love, Tracy