It’s a new year! It’s a chance to change, let things go, and start new. Expect GREAT things!! Let Him lead you.
“My soul, wait silently for God alone, For my expectation is from Him.”
Psalms 62:5 NKJV
Lay it down
A new year is quickly approaching! It is always an exciting season of new things awaiting us. In preparation – many decide to make goals, resolutions, and plans for great things in the new year. It is a great practice that I plan on participating in. But that is not what is on my heart right now.
There are only a few more days left in 2015 and in these next few days, I am starting to prepare my heart for the things God has for me in 2016. This entailes laying some thoughts, insecurities, and doubts down. I don’t want the things I plan for my new year to fall by the wayside because I held onto my old insecurities.
It’s time to kill off some adverse things that I allowed in my mind and heart that I know will not allow me to go on to new, better things. Just as 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
Old things must pass before new things can come. I encourage you to search your heart & pray that God not only reveals the thoughts, doubts, and insecurities that have held you back, but that He takes those things away. That will require you to lay those things down.
Prepare & guard your heart for a great & wonderful new season! Great things are ahead of us all. God is so very faithful!
“Prepare your outside work, Make it fit for yourself in the field; And afterward build your house.”
Proverbs 24:27 NKJV
Be blessed, dear friends. Our best is yet to come!
Prayer: Lord, help me to lay down the thoughts, doubts, and insecurities that I have held onto for too long. The things that hinder growth and keep me from better things. Take these things from me and heal my brokenness so they will not come back. Thank you for always being faithful. In Jesus’ precious name, amen!
Healing – The Next Step
Healing – an essential part of life. So often, when we seek healing, it is for the physical…for sickness in our bodies in some form. Emotional healing is just as essential. Just like the physical, without it, we could die.
Unforgiveness is a poison no one needs to hold onto. Please see more on this in my post Forgive 4 U. We must not let people/situations hurt us so much that we cannot move on – that is the work of the enemy!
Healing needs to come – which begins with forgiveness. Unfortunately, there is more to it than that. After forgiveness, there still might be some pain. The emotions & the changes that occurred due to the incident(s) can be hard to swallow. Don’t give up! Don’t let the enemy steal your joy!
1 Peter 2:24 says: He Himself (Christ) bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live righteousness; by his wounds we have been healed.” (NIV). Give all these things over to God & lay them at the Cross. Jesus already paid it all so that we might live in victory. Let God fight this battle for us.
I pray that in this new year, the things that we have held onto for years will fall away & we might be able to enjoy life the way God intended it to be.
Be blessed everyone!
Happy New Year!
I greatly encourage you to write down what you are expecting for this new year. Put something on paper. It is more final. Take some time today to do this. Here are what I am declaring for myself in 2015:
- Stop all self-centered thinking and behavior. It is exhausting and hurts everyone around me…including me.
- I am going to start seeing the prophesies that have been spoken over me to come to pass. It is a necessary thing for my Heavenly Destiny. I must live out my PURPOSE.
- The things of my past – thinking, acting, living – will be put to rest and a new me will become the norm. My latter needs to be better than my former.
- Absolutely no more laziness. There are times of rest that is needed, yes, but no more procrastinating or putting things off. It hinders my progression.
- Take more ”me” time – I need to learn more and more how it is to truly rest rather than working to the point where I crash. There must be a balance.
- Take care of my body – health wise. I do not need to be skinny to be happy, but I do want to be healthy. Watching what I eat and exercising more is necessary for a better me.
- Read the Bible in some form EVERYDAY! My relationship with God is the most important thing…I need to start really walking that fact out.
- I am expecting a greater peace than I have ever known. Not worrying about the small, insignificant things and allowing God to take care of the rest of it.
- Focus on what the plan of God is for my life and do things that will get me to where I need to be – I can’t just sit and wait for Him to do it all. I must go out and plant those seeds myself. I cannot wait to see what He is going to do…
- Owning what I do and apologize when necessary. Forgive others when necessary, as well….as quickly as possible.
- Work on me…staying self-aware and know when I need to do work on me. Not allowing life to get in the way of remaining a vessel the Lord finds pleasing.
- NO MORE DOUBTING!
- Pray for bold things. A lot.
- Love people the way they are…no matter what they do.
- Understand what is truly important in life and put my emphasis in that. No more giving a lot of my time to things/situations/people that are not worthy of it. Realize that I am valuable…just as much as everyone else is. Make sure that, when things go wrong, you lose everything, when life gets really hard, that what you have built will remain. If you build things on sandy ground, when the storm comes, things may not remain. Build your house on solid ground.
Be blessed everyone!!
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Shift, shift
Have you ever felt like things just keep going wrong? No matter what you do, you just can’t get it right. So many believe that this is an attack – and it very well may be – but I also believe that God will do this in our lives when He is ready for something else to come in. He must make room. As a new year approaches, I believe that He is getting a lot of His people ready for new things. If you are going through a situation like this – I encourage you to take some time and seek God;s face. Let Him show you what your current season means. I truly believe that we are going to start seeing a great shift in Christ’s people.
The following scripture was above the main stairwell at my University. It always remained above our heads, covering us. Let it cover you today.
For I know the plans I have for you,’ says the Lord, ‘plans for well-being and not for trouble, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11
Be Blessed
Boldly Radiant 