My one word this year: Healing. Healing from the past hurts that I never dealt with that have become like cancer, robbing from the joyful spirit God wants to give me. Healing from the hurts I’ve caused others by my sins and or negligence. Healing. Through the following:
Scripture memory: Thanks Beth Moore for thinking of a simple, just get up and do it method: SSMT is a place
online where
women; sisters in the Lord post their memory verses twice a month on the 1st & 15th. The army pays its soldiers on those days; how much more does the Word of God sustain us? So replenish the mind with God’s word and commit it to memory so that HE transforms us through it.
Repentance: True repentance leads to freedom. There is freedom in transparency. There is only freedom in Christ. I don’t think I’ve even been fully impacted by what this will do for my relationship with God and my witness for Christ. When I am a sister who loves and is like a cool drink on a hot summer’s day instead of a stumbling block, the lost are going to see who Jesus really is!! Let me get out of the way! This year will be tough as I seek God’s strength to find the humility it will take to seek reconciliation.
Matthew 5v.23&24 “Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, [24] leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.”
Casting my cares on Him: For years and years, I’ve neglected hurts which have left holes and footholds. I am at a loss, and this is a confusing part to this year’s healing. Because I can’t freely speak just yet about the hurts. I fear it will hurt those who’ve inflicted hurts on me. This is the part where it is crucial that I listen to God. Be VERY slow to speak, quick to listen. I trust Him to reveal what I can reveal to further His kingdom. Otherwise, they are empty words that do not need to be printed. 1Peter 5v.7 "...casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you."
Reading the Bible, all of it: A serious commitment I’m afraid to make, but know I need to just do it. Just do it. If I’m being honest, the real reason I don’t want to say I’ll do something isn’t from James 5 v 12. It’s not from fear of my ‘yes’ being a lie, but rather laziness. If I don’t want my ‘yes’ to be a lie, then I should just follow through on my commitment. And I know that will take discipline. I’ve only a few short years on this earth and people as close as my family who do not know Jesus. If I’m going to glorify God, and truly be a place where someone can see who Jesus is, I’ve got to be filled with His living word and be changed by it. I can’t know who Jesus is without reading His letter to me, to you, to us. How can we teach what we don’t know? SO…here I go.
What simple, yet HUGE truths do you need to embrace? God is faithful and blesses obedience.
John 14v. 11-17
“Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves. [12] Truly, truly I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. [13]Whatever you ask in my name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.[14]If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it. [15]If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. [16]I will ask the Father and HE will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; [17]that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.”
“Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves. [12] Truly, truly I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. [13]Whatever you ask in my name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.[14]If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it. [15]If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. [16]I will ask the Father and HE will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; [17]that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.”
