WORD FOR 2012 – A BETTER YOU

As we have entered into this New Year 2012, the main question that runs through is ‘what are my new year resolutions?’ Others just simply make up their minds not to think about it yet still others make a long list but by mid-January they fall away from their plan. We all fall victim to this year after year and this phenomena keeps happening again and again. Before we entered this year, I prayed to God telling Him, I don’t want to be counted among those who make resolutions and not stick to them. Because I also don’t want you to fall away before the first month ends, I’ll tell you what His response was. He said that every year presents its own challenges and successes and failures and just as the word of God says that the latter shall be greater than the former, that is the same way year after year things get. Challenges get bigger and if not successfully overcome, the failures are worse but thankfully it applies the same way the other around, that when successfully overcome, the successes are immeasurable. In 2012 your problems will be bigger but your successes will also be bigger if only you rely on God.
And so for me this year apart from having my resolutions, one thing I seek is to be a better person. Better than last year, better than the previous years. Better in the schooling, better in my relationships, better in my family life, better with my friends, a better person in every area of my life. The worse thing you can do this year is to fall back to what you were in the previous years. If 2011 was the best year for you, guess what, so far as you are still here, alive, then there is more ahead for you…2012 will be a even greater year. If 2011 was one of the worst years of your life, guess what, God said to tell you that don’t lose hope, don’t lose heart…2012 will be your year of BIG THINGS because God is perfecting things for you and just like Job who lost everything but receive in the ends more than he had. You see if you have been down, there no where else anything or anyone can send you and there you have only one way ahead of you and that is UP.
Look when the tough times hit you, it will either knock you down and out or it will toughen you and become a stepping stone to the next level, YOUR CHOICE.
The Bible says in the book of Proverbs that we should commit all our plans into God’s hands and our thoughts will be established. But what do you find us doing, yes even Christians, when we come to making resolutions, we declare that this year I want to do this and that, and to make us feel like we are not doing things without God’s help, we add, God willing or If God wills… or So God help me. That is what not the Bible asks us to do, He says we should first commit our plans and you have to do this thoroughly and then afterwards whatever thoughts you even have about those plans in line with His will for your life or that year will be established. God is not liar. He will surely establish it. So if you find out that halfway into the first month of even the year, you are not being faithful to your resolutions, check yourself, you didn’t follow God’s word. He said commit then your thoughts will be established. Don’t make the go ahead and try to do it on your own. You will fail and fail badly.
One more for 2012, God wants you to know that you are not alone. He said He will never leave you or forsake you. One thing I have learnt maturing in Christianity is that sometimes you will feel like God’s presence is not there and when that happens, check yourself and see if you are not the right path. Because God is on the right path, if you don’t feel Him, then you have deviated. Secondly, if you realise that you are on the right path but you are still not feeling His presence, then God is telling you that you need to move from your comfort zone and seek Him more. He wants you to build your faith more, study more, read more, pray more, fast more, praise and worship Him more, do more for Him. He wants you to move higher. 2012 promises a lot more. Climb higher! Keep the fire burning throughout the year! Never turn it off. When you see that it is going down, increase it!

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