REAL RESOLUTIONS

Have you thanked Him?

Have you praised Him?

Have you made it your priority to agree and cooperate with Him today?

Have you taken that deep breath and listened for what He has for you today?

1 Timothy 2:1 (The Message)

The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.

 

Resolutions.

It is DAY 4 of the New Year, have you wavered?

 

Statistics say they, those resolutions, don’t usually have much staying power. Simply put, resolutions are easily started, but rarely sustained.

 

That is why we can’t subject our walk with Christ or our desire to grow closer to GOD to “the resolution solution”. Rather, we must take THOSE types of changes more seriously! We must look to GOD for a way to turn our good intentions into GODLY transformations. 

And that starts by ASKING GOD what “needs resoluting”.

try to find out and do whatever the Lord wants you to.

Ephesians 5:17 (NLT)

 

The Lord wants us to look to Him for the areas in our lives that need the most changing. Losing weight and exercise are fine, but real change, real transformation is an inside out proposition; change that ONLY HE can help us make!

 

Remember, our heavenly Father sees who we really are, so He targets those areas in our life that truly need resolution! GOD knows intimately those areas that NEED change and growth! He knows things like pride, jealousy, anger, and un-forgiveness need to be dealt with so that His divine love and truth will flow through us to others!

 

That should be our focus! Those should be our "resolutions".

 

For to experience real change, we must be open to GOD’s path and direction. We must heed good and GODLY instruction!

 

Never forget my friends, the Lord desires what is good for us and will do what is needed to bring transformation in our thought life, attitudes, actions, and priorities.

In fact, He has been and is already hard at work doing just that!

There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears.

Philippians 1:6 (MSG)

 

So, while you are making those resolutions, remember GOD is ready to CONTINUE to make lasting and substantive change in you.

Let's RESOLVE to let Him! 

God, I invite your searching gaze into my heart.

Examine me through and through;

find out everything that may be hidden within me.

Put me to the test and sift through all my anxious cares.

See if there is any path of pain I’m walking on,

and lead me back to your glorious, everlasting ways—

the path that brings me back to you. Psalm 139:23-24 (TPT)

 

I love you all!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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