Advancing Encouragement By:
Bishop James Jr. Hairston

Micah: 4:6: In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halted, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted. 7: And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

This strong Nation you are going to read about is called the Remnant of God! This reading will shock you, this is God’s Church and His Kingdom He has reserved to this day and He is calling His preserved, His remnant right now, and today in this hour. Have you ever been in a position where you felt like you were an outcast that you were not apart of something significant to you? Like a group, part of a circle of people or even in a Church where there was some kind of disconnect that drove you away. Have your family ever disowned you or society has thrown you away and now you feel hopeless or at some point you felt hopeless without anyone to turn too. That is one scenario but do you know of anyone that is filled with hurt and pain maybe by being abused, misused, and trampled on chewed up and spit out of a relationship or friendship. Have you seen people on drugs or alcohol maybe in prostitution or a total outcast because they felt like they have been victims of society? When you are halted you are limp, lifeless, or lame without any help from anyone. To be driven out you do not have a home or a place of refuge, but lost, condemned, shamed, and in the hands of the enemy. When you are afflicted, you are filled with pain, hurt, sadness, broken heartedness, and suffering in some kind of way that may have resulted into all kinds of sinful behaviors. In either way, with this type of pain in your life you can feel hopeless and no one to turn too for help. All of these scenarios from the least to the worst will have people disconnected from life, like they are not apart of something significant, something great or something they can be excited about to live for. We have a lot of limp feeling people in the world yet; those are the kind of people God is looking for to inter into His Kingdom! The limp, the halted, and the afflicted are the people God wants in His Kingdom as a matter of fact He said He will make them into a strong Nation! Strong in the context means powerful, great, and mighty which is a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; a heathen nation. This is what Jesus Christ Came to do to call these types of people into His Kingdom and make them into a mighty Nation that is able to conquer and take dominion in the land. God is doing a new thing and today if you are the cast out, the halted or the afflicted He is going to bring you into His Kingdom and you will become a strong and mighty nation in Jesus name. Today, rise up out of your bad situation, rise up out of your lifeless situation into His Kingdom of the Remnant of God and He will make you great and mighty in Jesus name…

James Jr. Hairston