DAILY DOSE OF HOPE – BLOG – NAIMA LETT
BRAND NEW DAY!

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Can’t you feel a brand new day!
Can’t you feel a brand new day!

Anybody remember this break out song produced by Quincy Jones and written by Luther Vandross for The Wiz, the 1978 Motown-produced, Universal-distributed urbanized version of The Wizard of Oz starring Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Lena Horne and Richard Pryor?

It’s the most triumphant scene of the movie. Evillene has been destroyed. Her captives are set free. Michael Jackson boogies. Diana twirls on a table. The liberated peel off the creature outfits they’ve been subjected to for so long and then celebrate in their underwear. Oh, freedom! LOL!

I make light of it, but seriously, I woke up this morning kind of heavy – got so much on the plate. I journaled about it, got in the Word, and somewhere between I Kings and 2 Kings, Elijah and Elisha, faith kicked in, and I felt like joining Diana on top of the table.

Have you looked at God’s exploits through these 2 prophets?

Fire from heaven
Massive rain to end droughts
Earthquakes
Liberating folks from debt
Raising children from the dead
Miracles, Fam!

When Elijah is about to be taken up to heaven, Elisha witnesses more miracles.

2 KINGS 2
Excerpt: 8-14

8 Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up and struck the water with it. The water divided to the right and to the left, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground. 9 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?” “Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied. 10 “You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.” 11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. 12 Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore it in two. 13 Elisha then picked up Elijah’s cloak that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. 14 He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. “Where now is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.

Chariots of Fire! Horses of fire. Whirlwinds to heaven! Seas parting.
It does not get much better than this.
Where are Steven Spielberg, George Lucas or Peter Jackson when you need them?

Is anybody else encouraged?

I read this and I realize how out of this world our God is!
His power defies the limitations of this earth. And He empowers His servants to do the straight miraculous. Elijah parted a sea, went out blazing, left his cloak, which Elisha inherited and turned around and did the same thing, started parting seas! Elisha then followed in Elijah’s footsteps and started meeting the needs of the people.

Brand new day, Fam!
Brand new day!

We don’t serve a wimpy dead god. We serve the Creator of the ends of the earth – the great Resurrector of the dead. And He empowers his servants to accomplish all that He’s given us to accomplish.

It’s the 1st day of the month!
Summer is just a couple of weeks away!
We’re almost 1/2 way through the year!
What has God empowered us to do?

I’m moving forward.
How ’bout you?

Can’t you feel a brand new day!
Can’t you feel a brand new day!
Naima

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