Happy New Year! We are turning the page to a new chapter in our lives today! It’s nothing like a new beginning, a fresh start, an opportunity to do things better!
I took a few weeks before the New Year to reflect on the past year. I thought about all the trials and triumphs, the lost opportunities and the opening of doors, the unchanged habits, obtained goals and I vowed that this new year would be different. I decided not to make any resolutions, but promises to myself and God. I didn’t write a list of the must-dos, but I simply decided to focus on one word FAITH.
If I am faithful and I look to God for all my direction, everything else will follow. I will meet all the goals, aspirations, and changes that I desire to see for myself and others. If I walk in FAITH, my own limitations will not interfere with what God has in store for me. If I continue to believe in the things that I can not see or understand with my limited mind I will succeed! I will win because God is well-pleased with those who are faithful!
I am going into this year with huge expectations and with child-like FAITH! I choose to walk by FAITH and not be sight because my sight is limited, but God’s ideas are limitless! I choose to live an extraordinary life today with God!
My resolve reminds me that of Noah, when he listened to God and began to build the ark. Friends and family laughed at him when he explained what God had told him to do. They had never even seen rain before so to imagine it raining for 40 days and 40 nights and eventually destroy the earth as they knew it was way out there. But Noah believed God even though his mind probably couldn’t even fathom the idea! But his FAITH, moved him to be obedient and look what happened!
That is the type of FAITH that I want to experience this year and beyond! I desire to see people laugh at me for stepping out with no finances and launching a ministry that God said for me to do! I want to see the women that the ministry will touch, s change their lives from ordinary to extraordinary. I want to see the manifestation of every good thing that God stored up for me to come to life right before my eyes! More so I want to see people come to know the God that I serve! I want them to say; “Wow, how did you do that?” and I can tell them it was through FAITH in God!
And my heart can hardly contain the joy and praise that I will explode into just thinking about the goodness and faithfulness of God towards me.
What will your New Year theme be?
The Butterfly Journey – Lisa
