Hi Brian!

It was SO good to spend time with you and your whole family last week! We have been SO blessed that JESUS brought our Tyler as the perfect match for our Kori and with the beautiful grandchildren that HE has provided! We feel the same about our Jennifer as the only one we know who could ever have supported our Trevor through all of his many, many interests and raised their four beautiful girls together! We also know that Nathalie has been the very BEST choice by JESUS as a perfect mate for Nick! But I am also SO personally blessed to see the bond between you and Kristine and the wonderful, talented, beautiful, interesting, lovely and loving young ladies that you are raising! It makes me smile every time we see you all together! So this week I really only want to share this by Charles Spurgeon that gives all the glory and honor for every good thing to JESUS! 

"The Lord is King for ever and ever."— Psalm 10:16

Jesus Christ is no despotic claimant of divine right, but He is really and truly the Lord's anointed! "It hath pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell." God hath given to Him all power and all authority. As the Son of man, He is now head over all things to His church, and He reigns over heaven, and earth, and hell, with the keys of life and death at His girdle. Certain princes have delighted to call themselves kings by the popular will, and certainly our Lord Jesus Christ is such in His church. If it could be put to the vote whether He should be King in the church, every believing heart would crown Him. O that we could crown Him more gloriously than we do! We would count no expense to be wasted that could glorify Christ. Suffering would be pleasure, and loss would be gain, if thereby we could surround His brow with brighter crowns, and make Him more glorious in the eyes of men and angels. Yes, He shall reign. Long live the King! All hail to Thee, King Jesus! Go forth, ye virgin souls who love your Lord, bow at His feet, strew His way with the lilies of your love, and the roses of your gratitude: "Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown Him Lord of all." Moreover, our Lord Jesus is King in Zion by right of conquest: He has taken and carried by storm the hearts of His people, and has slain their enemies who held them in cruel bondage. In the Red Sea of His own blood, our Redeemer has drowned the Pharaoh of our sins: shall He not be King in Jeshurun? He has delivered us from the iron yoke and heavy curse of the law: shall not the Liberator be crowned? We are His portion, whom He has taken out of the hand of the Amorite with His sword and with His bow: who shall snatch His conquest from His hand? All hail, King Jesus! we gladly own Thy gentle sway! Rule in our hearts for ever, Thou lovely Prince of Peace.

Our Prayer for all of you is that HE will show HIMSELF strong, powerful, loving and giving in every situation that you face and that this will be your very BEST and most BLESSED ever so far! Here is one of my favorite songs by Hillsong that I have used many times called "Every Breath":

Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!