My New Year’s Resolution

"We can under-gird our New Year’s resolutions with two verses. The first is James 4:13-15 – “… Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” The second Scripture is Philippians 4:13 – “I can do all this through Him who gives me strength.” From God’s perspective of you and me is much bigger than you and me. God sees you and He sees me as instruments and channels of blessings for others. He ministers to us in our place of need so that we may minister to others. He gives to us, so that we may give to others.Carefully read Nehemiah’s prayer and analyze his philosophy. His focus for confession and repentance was initially and effectively, though not exclusively on himself. His focus for blessing and prosperity was effectively on others, even to the exclusion of himself. In so doing he captured the mind of God. Nehemiah was able to claim the promise, “Ask, and ye shall receive…”, only because he asked according to the will of God.
“ Now this is the confidence we have before Him: Whenever we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears whatever we ask, we know that we have what we have asked Him for.” (1 John 5:14-15)
May our 2016 find us resolving by the grace of God to daily discover and walk in the will of God. May our resolution be to fulfill our birthright to be channels of blessings, first to those of the household or faith, and then to those without. May we resolve to be beacons of light in a dark world that point to Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world. May we resolve to be messengers of comfort and repositories of empathy for a sick and hurting world. As God has freely given to us, may we freely give to others.
That is my New Year’s Resolution. What is yours?

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The Good News said…
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.
January 2, 2021 at 1:43 PM
The Good News said…
Going into 2021, we have to understand like David the dependences of God. God is interested in showing us secret things.We suffer from spiritual blindness and deafness, we have no idea what the next second will bring. When ever David was faced with problems, David always enquired of the Lord first. "So David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?” And He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all.” 1 Samuel 30:8. Now is the time to look back on our mistakes in the pass, in 2020 we all allow a Pandemic, drive our anxiety our circumstances.When we are at the crossroads of life and don't know what to do, there are some questions we need to ask God: Why? Which? How? and When?
January 3, 2021 at 2:21 PM
The Good News said…
At first you may see clearly what God’s will is— the severance of a friendship, the breaking off of a business relationship, or something else you feel is distinctly God’s will for you to do. But never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God’s timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment. When it is a question of the providential will of God, wait for God to move.-....(Jer. 33:3)
January 4, 2021 at 2:50 PM
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