My New Year’s Blessing for You!

We are instructed to bless those who curse us, but we should also bless those of the household of faith. But it seems more and more, we have become judgmental, critical and envious of one another. Our jealousy seems to curse the things that God does in the lives of our brothers and sisters, and this should not be. So, for this New Year—I want to speak blessings into your lives my dear sisters—desiring only the best for you.

My prayer and hope is that all of you will spend more time seeking God in 2015, and that you will not put anything before Him in establishing a sound and intimate relationship with Him.

I pray you will study your Bibles with a hunger and thirst that you have never experienced before. And may your eyes be opened to the truths you have not seen before, so that you can begin to truly know the God who has made you, the God who has saved you and the God who lives within you.

My prayer for all is that you will no longer makes excuses as to why you don’t have time to spend with the One who cares for you. And that you will do whatever it takes to seek Him with all your heart, mind, soul and strength.

I pray that you will not live one day in 2015 where you don’t think about Him or meditate on His Word. But most of all—I pray that you will not only fall deeply in love with your Creator, but you will bow down and worship Him in spirit and in truth.

May your heart be so full of love and obedience that you arise each day with a beckoning desire to please and serve Him—no matter what it may cost you.

My sweet sisters…my earnest prayer for you is that you come to see God in His fullest! That He will no longer be the god someone has convinced you that he is, or one you have conjured up in your mind. In other words—stop trying to fit Him in a box, or the confines of your minds. And learn to see His greatness in the everyday aspect of your daily living.

I pray that the words, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust,” will not just be something you recite, but that you will be able to say them with the utmost confidence and trust, because you have found the “secret place” through a deep personal relationship with Him.

May you take too heart the “secret to contentment” that Paul discovered and shared with us (see Philippians 4:11-13 NIV), so that your days can be filled with words of Thanksgiving, versus those of worry and doubt.

There is no need for New Year’s resolutions or goals, other than to have a made-up mind, to get to know God better—that alone will cover anything you have need of, desire or want to change.

And above all else—do not just be readers of the Word, but doers of the Word you are reading—for obedience is key. Let us obey in letting go of old hurts and wrong turns, and learn to bless those who curse us and walk in the love of God to the lost and hurting.

May God bless you exceeding abundantly above all that you could ask or think in your pursuit of getting to know Him and what His Kingdom is all about!  May you know the fullness of the finished work of the Cross! And may you grow strong in your faith in God and all that He says, and all that He promises. And last but not least—when times are hard, may you be able to stand, believing beyond a shadow of a doubt—that God is working for your good and He loves you unconditionally—no matter what! AMEN!

Until next week,

Love, Hugs and blessings,

Ponnie