HOW TO BEGIN YOUR NEW YEAR

Today marks a new beginning in your life. No matter what had happened in the past, God can write a new chapter and cause a change in the New Year. He can turn you’re:

*Disappointment to HIS appointment

*Difficulty to Delight

*Downturn to Restoration

*Desolation to Jubilation

*Degeneration to Regeneration

*Misery to Miracle

*Pain to Gain

THOUGHTS FOR THE NEW YEAR

*NEW REVOLUTION NOT RESOLUTION

Many people make resolution at the beginning of the year, but their decisions are short – lived         because they lack the power to follow through. What they need id Devine revolution that results in regeneration. The secret of continuous victory in all facets of life lies in a genuine experience of salvation in Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:17)

NEW REVELATION FROM GOD

We need to see God afresh in the New Year. We must understand His plans, programmes and purposes for us this year and determined key- in into them. Without doubt, His plans for us are awesome, His programmes are wonderful and His purposes are maevelous. He says “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end” (Jeremiah 29:11

NEW RESTORATION TO GRACE

The Lord has promised to restore all things we have lost in the old year and grant us abundant grace and blessings. The restoration He promised is encompassing: physical, spiritual and material. He eaten has enough resources to meet all our needs. His promise is “\And I will restore to you the years that the locusthath eaten, the cankerworm, and caterpillar, and the palmerworm” (Joel 2:25. Get ready for a fruitful and productive year as you:

*determination to obey god’s Word (jeremiad 7:23)

*desist from evil practices of the past. (Ezekiel 33:11)

* destroy past connections with Satan (acts 19:19)

*Do His bidding always (exodus 19:5)

*draw strength from heaven’s resources (Ephesian 6:10)

*depend on his faithfulness ti see you through (psalm 119:90)

*defer to Christ’s lordship in every situation. (Romans 14:9)

HAPPY NEW YEAR