New Year’s Eve Thoughts
Posted January 7th, 2010 by dpritchard | Learning to Live | No Comments
New Beginnings - The beginning of a new year is always a good time to take inventory of our lives. But also keep in mind that once a year is not often enough with the Lord because He is always doing something new.
- The Lord is always at work in His Church
- We are to be living purposefully and intentionally for the King
- 2010 is a year to return to basics
- We should regularly look to recalibrate ourselves in the Lord: repenting where necessary and securing our foundations
- Live our lives before the Lord with Vision, Passion, Discipline, and Risk (Courage)
Living with Discipline – By engaging the spiritual disciplines, we put ourselves in the way of God’s grace in us. We do what we can so that God will do in us what only He can:
- Reading the Bible
- Fasting
- Prayer
- Fellowship
- Hospitality
- Giving and Tithing
- Sharing in the sufferings of Christ
- Worship and Adoration
- Giving thanks and Humility
Prophetic Advice
- 1 This 5:21 – Prove all things and hold fast to that which is good… Which so many things thrown at us these days, be sure to exercise caution: test thing, try them to see if they hold the integrity of truth
- Finish the race and finish strong
- Remember Terah in Gen 11:32 – He did not finish his journey and stopped along the way and left the journey to be finished by the next generation. As for us, let us finish our journeys so that the generation free from our obligations, free to follow their own course in the Lord.
(For more of Dave’s notes on the coming year, download the following: New Years Thoughts – 2010)