New Year's Eve 2012...I love New Year"s Eve and New Year's Day!!! There's something refreshing about looking at the past year and truly reflecting not just on what God did that year in your life but also who He was to you. He showed Himself in some new ways to us this past year. I could go month by month, and will in my own journal, and see God's hand working and Him showing up in some big ways!! I also love looking ahead with excitement to the endless possibilities and opportunities! He's such a creative God that I believe He has some new creative things ahead for all of us. My prayer for myself is that I don't get bogged down in the unimportant and moved by the urgent that I miss Him in the every day things of life. That's where I love seeing Him most!!
I've been pouring over some verses, actually passages, in scripture to claim for this new year. It's always so hard because they're all my favorites. There's 2 that I just can't choose between so 2013 is going to have to share my script for the year. My 1st is Phil 1:9-11. I love it because I think so often we settle for the good when God wants the best for us. We settle for good relationships when God has some that are best for us. We settle for good exercise when God wants to push us to the next level of best. We settle for some good ways to spend our time, money, efforts but God's ways are bigger than ours and He has some of the best ideas for those things. I also believe discernment is HUGE and I think there's a need to pray for that daily. I see a need for that more and more not only in my life but as my life intersects with others I believe we all are in great need of godly discernment as Satan attempts to blind us and get us off track and deceive us!!! I want to love Him more, not what He gives or does, but HIM!! I want to be pure and blameless, not perfect, before Him. And I want it all to be for the glory and praise of God alone.
My 2nd one is 1Thess.5:16-24. It's loaded with challenges that I need to clothe myself in daily. It's a reminder of God's faithfulness and that we can do nothing on our own but He is faithful and He will do it. I need Him to do some things in 2013! I want desperately to be a part of His great work and I want it to be a work that ONLY He can do!! And I need Him to pour faith into my life so that I can trust Him with all of this.
I hope as you set goals for the coming year that you won't forget the spiritual goals. Start something new with God this year. Beg Him to stir up a fire in you that will drive you closer to Him. He will do it. He's longing to do it. As Eddie said yesterday, if we draw near to Him, He will draw near to us.
Happy New Year to all from our entire family!! May it be a year full of all God longs to do in us and through us!!
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