It’s now about forty years and the people of God finally crossed over the Jordan into their promised land. To the glory of God you too have crossed over into year 2010; although you may have faced some challenges in the past years, and success might have been an uphill battle in your life before, but God wants me to assure you that this is the year of promise for you. 2010 shall be your year of satisfaction with the goodness and favor of God. Yes you have crossed over; leaving sickness and hindrances behind you in Jesus name. You have crossed over; all plagues and disappointments of previous years will no longer be your portion beginning this 2010. I speak this to you by the authority of the word of God - that you have crossed over and all the former difficulties will now stand still. Easy ways will be paved for you to move into excellencies according God’s plan for your life. In the book of Joshua 3:9-16 we read that the waters of Jordan were cut off so that the people could cross over.

Satan dangled Uriah’s wife, Bath Sheba, before David. She was like a ripe apple, too ripe for David to resist! Yes, David saw a naked woman bathing, desired her, committed adultery with her and finally committed murder in order to have her for himself! No matter how much of a celebrated beauty Bath Sheba was, David was not supposed to covet her. Didn’t he know the law? Didn’t he meditate on the law day and night? Didn’t he swear to keep the law in his heart? Didn’t he have his own wife? I believe that David’s encounter with this woman was not entirely coincidental or accidental. Bath Sheba was a daughter of Eliam, one of David’s bodyguards. This lady was also a wife to one of David’s chief army officers. There is no way she could be such a total stranger who’s father or husband David could claim not to have known. Why then could the king stoop so low to commit such a sin with her?

This is the story of my life: I am a woman who, due to life’s circumstances became one of two wives married to the same husband. There was nothing exciting about me because I cannot conceive to bring forth a child into the world. Although God has ordained that women should bring forth fruits, multiply and replenish the earth, I guess my womb has refused to honor this command. No, it’s the Lord who shut my womb. I hated myself for not being able to bare fruit, knowing that if I became fruitful, I would be fulfilling God’s program for the world and my husband and I would be happy. The other woman, married to my husband, had as many children as she wanted, but I was somehow prevented from rejoicing in the area of child bearing. My mother gave birth to me but my portion refused to give birth to someone.