“Our
hope is not in the new year…
but in
the One
who
makes all things new.”
“If you’d like to have a New Year’s
resolution,
resolve to be pleasing to the Lord.”
~ John
MacArthur
Tomorrow
is the first blank page
of a
365 page book.
Write a
good one.
~ Brad
Paisley
A NEW
YEAR IS NOT
A NEW
BEGINNING.
LIFE
ISN’T MADE
OF
FINITE CHAPTERS.
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WHAT
JANUARY BRINGS
IS
PERSPECTIVE,
WHICH
IN TURN ALLOWS
US TO
CELEBRATE
SUCCESSES,
BUILD ON
HARD-LEARNED
LESSONS,
OWN OUR
SHAME AND
FAILURES
AND ENTER MORE
FULLY
INTO THE REDEMPTION
CHRIST
OFFERS.
~ Michele
Phoenix
“May
I never forget on my
best
day that I still
need
God as desperately
as I
did on my worst.”
Jeremy
Binns
Always
pray to have
eyes
that see the best in people,
a heart
that forgives the worst,
a mind
that forgets the bad,
and a
soul that never loses faith in God.
“The secret is Christ in
me, not me in a different
set of circumstances.”
~ Elisabeth Elliot
DON’T
FORGET
THAT
MAYBE
YOU ARE
THE
LIGHTHOUSE
IN
SOMEONE’S
STORM
“Let Them See You”
Jason Weeks, Scotty Wilbanks
With every breath I breathe I sing a simple
melody
But I pray they’ll hear more than a song in me
Let them see You in me let them hear You
when I speak
Let them feel You when I sing
Let them see You, let them see You in
me
As we begin a “New Year”,
may our desire and prayer be that through our thoughts, words, actions, and
reactions people will see Jesus in us.
“Have
I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be
discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you
go.”
Joshua 1:9
Create
in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit with me.
Do
not cast me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore
to me the joy of your salvation
and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain
me.
Psalm 51:10-12
Therefore,
if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come. He old has gone, the new is
here!
2 Corinthians 5:17
But
seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be
given to you as well.
Matthew 6:33
Above
all else, guard your heart,
For everything you do flows from it.
Proverbs 4:23
He
has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the LORD
require of you?
To
act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8
Do
not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of
your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his
good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12:2
