NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS!!

I have decided that for the next year I am going to wake up every morning and take God at His word!  I am going to LIVE in the knowledge that His plans for me are good. He has plans to prosper me and not to harm me, plans to give me hope and a future.

I am going to believe that ‘the grace of our Lord has been poured out on me abundantly, along with faith and love’ (1Timothy 14).  I am going to live in the knowledge that ‘the Lord longs to be gracious to me’ (Isaiah 30:18).

The verse that I have chosen to accompany me on my journey is found in Deuteronomy 11:11&12 “But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven.  It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end”.

Biblically the River Jordan represents freedom from slavery – freedom from bad habits and attitudes.  It represents deliverance and cleansing and is the transition from sin to righteousness.

TODAY I am choosing to cross my River Jordan and to live in God’s righteousness and His grace.  I choose to believe that my sins are forgiven and that ‘God will remember them no more’ (Jeremiah 31:34) AND I am going to stop constantly reminding God of my failures!

My prayer for all of us this year is that we will we live in the ‘land of mountains and valleys (ups and downs, happiness and sorrows, death and life) but that we will remember that this land drinks rain from heaven’ we are living in the ‘land that the Lord our God cares for’ and that we will know that the ‘eyes of the Lord our God are continually on us from the beginning of the year to its end’.