The journey with the Lord is exciting, challenging, and filled with the unexpected as any number of believers can attest to...the Word of God tells us that His thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are not our ways, they are higher. (Isaiah 55:8-9) It is exciting to see the many expressions of God's love and His power in your life. But His thoughts and His ways challenge your perspective, attitudes and reasoning. It requires trusting that the Lord you serve is a good God and His love for you is perfect.
The Lord reveals a glimpse of His plans and purposes for your life and it never unfolds according to your plan, which I now realize is just as He has planned. Our walk with the Lord Jesus is a faith walk...“To Encourage You” Greetings (TEY) is my walk of Faith in this season.
The story began in 1987 with my late husband, Jesse Randall as we launched a greeting card line for the Christmas and Kwanzaa Holiday Season in New York City. We believed the business would provide resources to reach and help those in need, especially inner city youth.
The cards were well received in the marketplace. We were very excited and began planning an inspirational/Christian greeting line. In the midst of the production of this line, my husband became seriously ill and it resulted in his passing from this life into the next. I believed the vision had passed away as well. What I thought was over was just delayed for such a time as this.
How many of you know that God is more interested in relationship than He is in works? That is what my journey has taught me. Now and finally, I am more interested in my relationship with Him than I am with the works of my hand. By the leading of the Spirit of God, I am committing myself to “To Encourage You” Greetings. The outcome is in His hands. I am just amazed at how the Lord has re-birthed this vision 20 years later at a point in my life where I felt so far away from purpose.
The words written in these cards contain various ingredients for knowing and growing in God. Some represent seed for planting, others are water, but it is always God who gives the increase. Hallelujah!
My desire is that the Power of the Love of God for mankind be revealed through these cards…For it is the power of His Love that changes us and gives us freedom from all sin, the curse of the law and death.
Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways.