A New Thing

Each year tradition in the United States is to start it with a Resolution. Websters dictionary defines Resolution as a firm decision to do or not to do something.  It is common knowledge that most of us make that New Year's resolution only to fall away before we complete the year.  According to a recent Forbes report, only  8% of us actually achieve our resolution. 

I stopped making resolutions years ago.  My only goal was to live my life in such a way as to benefit others and honor God in the process. I guess you could say that I did make a Resolution.  It is simply renewed yearly as the exact same resolution each year.  However, this year I did make a resolution.  One that is different in many ways.  This time my resolution is to honor the teachings of one of my greatest mentors and friends.  Pastor Joyce: My mom.  

 My resolution for 2016: To post Pastor Joyce's word for the day for an entire year. 

Who knows- maybe this will turn into a lifetime blog.  I hope you enjoy her short teachings as much as those who have read them before.  Good luck on your Resolutions and Happy New Year!

A New Thing

For the entire year 2015 God has been laying the foundation for His manifest presence in our life, every sermon, teaching, prophecy, and Word that He quickens to us is preparation for His purpose in us as individuals, the body, state, nation, and the world.  If we fail to embrace our destiny we shall be most miserable and have little impact on the new day ahead of us.

The prophet Isaiah said it, “Stop dwelling on past events and brooding over times gone by; I am doing something new; it’s springing up –can’t you see it?  I am making a road in the desert, rivers in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:18-19

Step out of that old comfort zone, there is nothing comfortable about change, but we cannot stop it when the hand of God moves His Kingdom into the new – which is a constant process – we can choose to leap into it by faith or continue to grumble about the past.  If we select to remain stuck in the past with all its pressures and disappointments we will miss the forward motion of God.

We all have something that is painful in our life but the apostle Paul says, “I reckon the suffering of the present is not worthy to be compared to the Glory that shall be revealed in us.”  Let’s focus our attention on the path that God has prepared for us to walk in and make 2016 a year of glory.