Hello my World Wide Family. I love you. I thought we would have another conversation before the end of this year 2022 and the beginning of the New Year 2023! This year has been exploding with challenges and changes. Some of them have been positive and some negative and opinions vary greatly regarding which is which.
Will we be able to transition unencumbered and fearlessly into the New Year, or will we drag our ‘stuck selves’ into another mundane year? My heart’s desire is to do something fabulous for the LORD and His people, even if He is the only One who knows about it so He receives all the glory. After all I live for an audience of One…that One is God.
PHILIPPIANS 3:13,14 BRETHREN, I DO NOT COUNT MYSELF TO HAVE APPREHENDED, BUT ONE THING I DO, FORGETTING THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEHIND AND REACHING FORWARD I PRESS TOWARD THE GOAL FOR THE PRIZE OF THE UPWARD CALL OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS.
IN HIM, (GOD) WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING…
PHILIPPIANS 4:13 I CAN DO ALL THINGS IN CHRIST JESUS WHO STRENGTHENS ME.
Dear LORD God Almighty, we love You. We worship and praise You and are grateful to You. We ask You to please lead us to live boldly for You in the upcoming year. We ask that we walk out our lives in the Power of Your Wisdom, Your Will, Your Way and always trusting in Your WORD the Bible. We thank You for freedom here in America and ask you to help us to stand up to protect this Freedom as One Nation under God.
Please send us out with Your Great Commission to go forth into all the world to preach Your Gospel so people will be saved and spend eternity with You in Heaven and not in hell. Thank You for Your Provision, Protection and Power. You are our Portion. Thank You Jehovah Nissi for being the LORD the Banner over our lives and the lives of our posterity. Thank You El Ra-ee for being the God Who Sees and Jehovah Shammah, the LORD Who is right here with us.
Please stop this war in Ukraine LORD. Save and protect the Ukrainians and save Putin and the Russians so they will not perpetuate this evil. Please stop the evil, the persecutions and murders carried out in nations by corrupt governments against the people and one people group against another and by adults against the unborn babies. Help us all LORD. We need You. We thank You in advance. In Jesus’ Name. Amen. All Glory to You God.
God tells us to write down the vision and make it plain. I am one who likes to write things down. I write lists so that I can check items off as I complete them. I write my prayers to the LORD. I know that it is a great practice to keep a journal. For me however, instead of writing down my feelings or what I accomplished or failed to accomplish in a certain day and having this be the focus of my journal; I write to the LORD and incorporate my feelings and ambitions for the day.
I am an avid reader. I say that I am an ‘interactive reader’. By the time I have finished reading a book, it looks like I wrote half of it. I write comments all over the margins and underline throughout the book. For me to write my New Years “Resolutions” would be easy. To keep them may be more of a challenge. This may be true for many of us. Gyms are packed during the first couple of weeks of the year, then not so much.
I will write the vision and make it plain since God tells me to. I will also live each day as if it is my last and live it to the fullest with my LORD and love His people. I will ask God to help me not focus on failures in my past but instead future Victories that will come to pass. I will try my best not to be stuck and with the LORD’s help I will succeed.
HABAKKUK 2:2 THEN THE LORD ANSWERED ME AND SAID, “WRITE THE VISION AND MAKE IT PLAIN…
Until we get to talk again, (even if that is in the next year), please remember that I love you and most importantly, Jesus loves you. God bless all of you and your generations. In Jesus’ Name Amen.
3 JOHN 1:2 BELOVED I WISH ABOVE ALL THINGS THAT YOU MAY PROSPER AND BE IN HEALTH EVEN AS YOUR SOUL PROSPERS.
HAPPY BLESSED NEW YEAR 2023!!