Well, we are beginning week three of a new month, in a brand new year. Seems like Christmas was just yesterday. Time is not standing still, it is moving right along. Every year, many people make New Year resolutions, that many times are abandoned by March! Many do manage to keep them though.
This year as I sat and thought about 2013, I decided that this year would be like no other one, that God has blessed me to live. I have had many good years. Every day that God has blessed me to open my eyes, has produced a good year! I am not complaining about any one of them, I am just determined to have the best one yet. I sat and I thought about who God is, I thought about how He desired a family that He could love, that He could have a relationship with and shower His love upon, I thought about how when man messed up, He provided Jesus to die for us, so that He could justly forgive us, I thought about how He has made a covenant with us that He would always love us, never be mad at us, how He would always provide for us, how He would heal us if we ever got sick, how He would be a Shepherd to us, to guide us, to protect us, I just sat and thought about all that God has already done for each and every one of us, even if we don't believe it or accept it! He has done more than I can list here, but just the things that I listed, are amazing!
I sat and I thought, how can anyone have a bad day? How can any year not be a good one? Every year is a good one, but every year can be a greater one, if we believe God, and if we really live according to His Word, according to Him...not according to the government, not according to your salary, not according to the world's economy, not according to a doctor's report, not according to a bank statement, not according to the roadblocks, the boundaries, the parameters that many times, circumstances present in life. If we live according to Him, and Him alone, we will have a great year! God planned for us to not survive, but to really live...abundantly, supernaturally, completely, life to the full! Flourishing, thriving, NOT surviving!
This year, I decided to just believe God! To bless Him and glorify Him, by living the life that he purposed me to live! I have believed Him all along, but this year I am going to really believe Him, and Him alone! Yes, I will admit that I have read the promises, believed them, still believed them even when something crazy happened that was contrary to what I believed. I still believed, but as time continued and the thing that I was believing for, seemed to not show up, sometimes the expectancy may have weakened a bit. Yes, I'll admit that. I may have let some things slip a bit...but not any more! This year, and forevermore, I will have everything manifested that God has already provided, and promised in His Word! I am tired of reading about the promises, and not holding them in my hands. God's Word said that "He daily loads us with benefits"-(Psalm 68:19). Psalm 103:2 says, "don't forget His benefits!" Benefits-Love, Joy, Peace< Protection, Guidance, Shelter, Forgiveness, a Relationship with Him, Prosperity, Health and Wholeness, Salvation, Completeness! He loads us daily, every day with these benefits! If He daily loads us with health, when do we have time to be sick? If we are daily, every day...loaded with prosperity...how can we and when can we be broke? If He daily loads us with shelter, how can we and when can we be homeless? I just had to sit down and get real about everything! We will either believe God, or not! I am determined that I am loaded! I will never have a bad day, a bad week, a bad month, or a bad year...ever again in life! It is a good day! It is a good week. It is a good month. It is a good year! Not it will be, it is! How can it not be a good day. How can it not be a good week? How can it not be a good month? How can it not be a good year? I choose to believe God, above circumstances, above the job, beyond what I hear, beyond what I can see with natural eyes! I BELIEVE GOD...and HIM ALONE!
