The dawn of a new year is around the corner, and this is the perfect time to start making room in our hearts for the new and great things that God has prepared for us in the coming year. You will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new harvest! – Lev. 26:10.
With the new year comes numerous set goals, expectations, pressures, deadlines, and the list is endless. However, we can approach it with a unique mindset that makes room for new things using these three Ps- posture of praise, ponder, and prepare.
Posture of praise
As we wind up this current year, I encourage you to develop and maintain a posture of praise and worship. Let thankfulness overflow in your heart – sing of the goodness of God. The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease.Great is his faithfulness and His mercies begin afresh each morning. – Lamentations 3:22-23. The fresh daily mercies of the Lord kept you this far, so keep a grateful heart. Perhaps, you are not where you had envisaged, but instead of counting your defeats, count your victories, no matter how small they seem to you.
An attitude of gratitude brings great things – Yogi Bhajan
Ponder on the past and the new
Furthermore, ponder on the past as a form of evaluation. This can be done by assessing your current roles and relationships and identifying areas of improvement. Evaluate your spiritual, marital, parental, familial, and work relationships; ponder on what succeeded and what did not. Reflect on the future that you want to see and work towards it by setting specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time bound goals. Commit your actions to the Lord, and your plans will succeed. – Prov. 16:4
Prepare for the new
Lastly, prepare for the new by waiting on God for a personal watchword for the incoming year. I am not referring to the word that will be declared by the different churches and ministries for the year. I mean your own word from the Lord that would guide you through the year. One of the words the Lord gave me this year was that – “there will be no losses”. I hung up to it with every breath in me. I applied it to every area you can think of. Whenever I faced challenges, I keyed into my “no losses” promise. The road of salvation is a personal one, so please have your own watchword(s). Then the LORD answered me and said: “Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. – Habakkuk 2:2.
In conclusion, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. Weights such as anger, jealousy, envy, bitterness, unbelief, gossips etc. should be dealt with because no one puts new wine into old wineskins.
A big thank you to all of you for your support, comments, shares, and love. I simply cannot thank you enough. I pray that my God will continue to prosper you all.
See you in 2023 by God’s grace!
Shalom!
Its true that sometimes we pray and expect more but don’t really take time to prepare the space to accommodate our expected “more”
Making room for the new is very vital👌
Thank for this amazing write-up.