2010-A year of new beginnings

2010

Happy New Year!!

What are you believing for in 2010? When January 1 comes every year, I reflect on the year before and on what I believe for in the New Year.

This year is more than simply moving into a new year, it’s a turning of a decade.  If I think about where I was and what was going on a decade ago, one thing in particular that comes to mind is—Y2k. Do you remember all the craziness around Y2K…it was “the end of the world as we knew it.” “The world’s computer system’s would crash.” etc.. People were selling everything, moving to farms, buying cows for their back yards and generators for their homes. Stocking up. We know what the end result was barely a blimp on the radar.

It would be denial for me to stay the world is not in time of stress, there are many impending situations from foreign affairs, to security threats, to a recovering economy. Though, it is important that we keep our eyes on Him and not on situations that are here one day and gone tomorrow. When I think about what even my grandfather’s generation witnessed in their lifetime, I am reminded that situations come and situations go. But we must put our trust in the One that is unmovable, unshakable, a Solid Rock that promises even if 1,000 fall at our right and 10,000 to our left…no harm will come near are dwelling.

In the last century, the world has seen and defeated; the Great Depression the Holocaust, the gloom of the takeover of communism to the falling of the Berlin Wall,…just to name a few. We also have new and old problems still to address—from global hunger and poverty—aids epidemics—children that are left as orphans—human trafficking, to name a few—and still so many people that have yet to hear of the One who gives life and life more abundantly. The Lord is going to show Himself strong and mighty in this time, we are His hands and feet to the world around us.  He tells us:  “be of good cheer, for I have already overcome the world. “He has given us the keys of the Kingdom”

I believe this is a year of new beginnings.  The year that long waited dreams that have been in your heart—need to become a reality. What do I mean by that? If God has placed something in your heart, this year we need to step out of the boat in every area of our lives, under the direction of the Holy Spirit.  If not this year, when? This is our finest hour as the people of God.

We need to rely on the Holy Spirit more than we did yesterday: I believe that those who have been prepared and those that will allow themselves to be uncomfortable, and step out of the boat that God wants to give back places of influence that His people were intended to reign in. He is calling us to live, see, and speak the heart of God into every area of society. This is the year that God will make Himself known in all the earth through His people.

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