If
you would have told me one year ago today of all the changes that I would
encounter during this past year such as, quitting my job at weight watchers,
stepping down from the choir and praise and worship team, facilitating women's
Bible studies and prayer groups, and homeschooling my kids, I would have
thought you were absolutely out of your mind! But I sit here today, one year
later, and I am the crazy one! Haha! Wow, the things that can happen in a year!
2012
will definitely be a year that I will never forget! It wasn't the easiest year,
as a matter of fact; it was just downright hard! But it was also a year that
brought such hope and healing into my life more than ever! It was a year of
healing, not only physically, but also mentally and spiritually as well. It was
a year of tremendous growth as God shaped and molded my heart closer to his. It
was a year of utter surrender and release in closing chapters of my life as God
placed new ones in front of me. It was a year of new friendships through the
bond of our precious Jesus. It was a year of making a stand in what I truly
believe. But more than all of that, it was a year of getting to know the heart
of my Savior so deeply and intimately that nothing else mattered. Oh, how I
fell in love with him!
As
I gathered with my family last night in the last minutes of 2012, we prayed
together and thanked our God for the amazing lessons we learned, the blessings
we received, and his presence so evident in our lives through the year and we
committed 2013 to him. We praised him for the journey in store. Although we
don't know what that journey holds, we have confidence that he is in full
control of it.
I
enter 2013 knowing there is so much work to do. God is not finished with me and
I move forward still in a place of surrender to do his will. I know he has
called me to be bold this year. I am a woman who says, “yes” to my God and that
requires boldness. Bold in speaking his truth, bold
in sharing the gospel, bold in standing up for God's Word
even if I'm standing alone, bold in stepping out in faith when
he calls, and bold in holding to my Biblical convictions in a world that has
lost all of its own. It's not an easy word to stomach but a word that has
been etched into my soul for the coming year.
BOLD, for HIM,
for HIS glory! I will continue
studying his Word for direction and lifting my requests and praises before his
throne.
2013
is ALL about him! I go in excitement
and anticipation for all that he has in store and I pray God’s richest blessings
on you all!
“When I cried out
for help, you answered me. You made me bold
and energized me.”
Psalms 138:3 (NET)
“So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious
God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we
need it most.”
Hebrews 4:16 (NLT)
“The wicked run
away when no one is chasing them, but the godly are as bold as lions.”
Proverbs 28:1 (NLT)
“Therefore, since
we have such a hope, we are very bold.”
2 Corinthians 3:12 (NIV84)
“My confident hope
is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body,
whether I live or die.”
Philippians 1:20 (NET)
“Pray that I may be
able to speak boldly as I ought to
speak.”
Ephesians 6:20 (NET)
“Because of Christ
and our faith in him, we can now come boldly
and confidently into God’s presence.”
Ephesians 3:12 (NLT)
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