Hello my most wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. It is so fabulous to be talking to you at the beginning of this New Year 2023 in which we will be sharing our journeys together. I was praying about what we could talk about since the New Year was arriving, and I thought about ‘Resting in the LORD’.
There are so many New Years Resolutions that you could make and that people do make and then don’t keep past the first week of the New Year. Of course I have been included in this group over the years. I thought about the Resolution that I want to make and keep is to Depend upon the LORD and trust in Him no matter what. I want to find Rest for my soul in the LORD.
As a human, I am limited in my abilities and I am completely OK with admitting this. This is not a popular statement or belief but I believe it is true. People want to believe that they just need to try harder, work harder, attend to higher education and academia, acquire more material wealth and belongings, increase in ‘positivity,’ tell themselves good things about themselves to build themselves up, and do whatever it takes to make themselves happy.
I think that I would rather take God’s WORD for what I should do. I find His instructions in the Bible. God did after all create me, every human being who ever lived, and all of creation. Let’s take a look at what God has to say.
MATTHEW 11:28-29 COME UNTO ME, (JESUS), ALL YE THAT LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU, AND LEARN OF ME FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART; AND YE SHALL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS. nkjv
Dear LORD God Almighty, thank You for another year to live our lives for You. To bring You Glory, Honor and Precious souls. Thank You for Who You are and Whose we are. We love You, praise and worship You. Thank You for the freedom that we still have in America, the freedom that isn’t at all free. The freedom that has cost so many their lives and the lives of their loved ones. Those who gave the “Last Full Measure” as President Abraham Lincoln stated.
Thank You mostly for the Ultimate Sacrifice You made God our Father when You gave Your Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ to die for us for the remittance of our sins so we can be saved when we repent, accept You as LORD and Savior and live our lives with You and for You. Thank You Jesus for dying for us and giving us Your Holy Spirit to do this life with. Thank You for Your WORD the Bible. Your instruction manual for us.
Please lead us and guide us through this year and every day and year of our lives Holy Spirit. Help us not to strive so much in our own ability but to depend upon You, to rest in Your Strength and follow Your Way, Your Will and read Your WORD. Thank You that You protect us and all of our generations with Your angels and hedge of protection. Thank You for Your Pure Love, Your Peace, and Your Joy that is our strength.
Please draw all of Your people to You to be saved before You come back again Jesus. Remove blinders and biases that people have, bring them back to You. Please bring Repentance, Revival, Regeneration and Renewal to America. Please protect all of Your people in all nations and their families who are being persecuted and martyred for believing in You Jesus. Help us all to truly love and care for our fellow human beings.
Please LORD work a miracle and stop the war that Russia has perpetrated upon Ukraine. Save those in Ukraine and give them power so they can be warm and have the necessities of life and live in peace like they were before this atrocity began. Please save those in Russia so there will be an end to this evil. Please stop genocide in all nations. Please bless and protect the children in every country and continent and let them keep their joy, laughter, and innocence. We thank You in advance LORD. In Jesus’ precious Name. Amen.
PSALM 37:7 BE STILL BEFORE THE LORD AND WAIT PATIENTLY FOR HIM, DO NOT WORRY WHEN PEOPLE SUCCEED IN THEIR WAYS, WHEN THEY CARRY OUT THEIR WICKED SCHEMES.
JOHN 16:33 “I HAVE TOLD YOU THESE THINGS, SO THAT IN ME YOU MAY HAVE PEACE. IN THIS WORLD YOU WILL HAVE TROUBLE. BUT TAKE HEART! I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD.”
God tells me to rest in Him. He tells me that when I am weak then He is strong. This means that life can get overwhelming and we can feel defeated and weak and like we can’t handle certain situations. We were never meant to handle them alone. God is not only our Creator, He is also our Heavenly Father, Abba. Let Him be Strong in our lives. Give your problems to Him. Give your families and loved ones to Him. Your finances, relationships, emotions, worries, fears, jobs, businesses, cities, states and countries, and people who want to be your enemies. Give them all to God. We can’t handle always handle all that life throws our way as humans. We weren’t created to carry these burdens.
1PETER 5:7 CAST YOUR CARES UPON HIM, (JESUS), FOR HE CARES FOR YOU. nkjv
2 CORINTHIANS 12:9-11 BUT HE, (JESUS), SAID TO ME, “MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU, FOR MY POWER IS MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS.” THEREFORE I WILL BOAST ALL THE MORE GLADLY ABOUT MY WEAKNESSES, SO THAT CHRIST‘S POWER MAY REST ON ME. THAT IS WHY, FOR CHRIST’S SAKE, I DELIGHT IN WEAKNESSES, IN INSULTS, IN HARDSHIPS, IN PERSECUTIONS, IN DIFFICULTIES. FOR WHEN I AM WEAK, THEN I AM STRONG.
We were created to have a personal, intimate relationship with God and like a human father, (but of course so much more that we cannot even comprehend), God will protect us. He will provide for us. He teaches us all that we need to know. He knows everything about us, more than we even know about ourselves. He alone is Omnipotent=All Powerful, Omnipresent=everywhere all of the time, Omniscient=All Knowing. He is the Author and Finisher of our lives.
That is Who I want to put my Trust in. That is Who I want to rest in. He is my Provider, Jehovah Jireh. If I am sick, He is my Healer, the Great Physician, Jehovah Rapha. He is the Banner over me and all of my generations, Jehovah Nissi. Living my life in for God and in God is the Only New Years Resolution that I can really keep because it is not about me, it is all always about Him. He is my only place of strength and safety. He is my Refuge, Strong Tower, and Sanctuary
Until we get to talk again, please know that I love you so very much and I am always praying for you and all of your generations. Most importantly, Jesus loves you. God bless you.