1/07 Colossians 3:9-10
9 Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds.
10 Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him.
CHANGE
The word for mankind is change.
We are to change from the way we are,
To the way that Jesus is.
Read the Red Letters in the New Testament.
Do what He says.
You will change.
1/06 2 Chronicles 7:14
Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.
HIS
Humble yourself.
This is an act of awareness and faithfulness.
Humility is in opposition to arrogance.
God is great, we are not.
It’s not that we are not valuable, we just aren’t wise.
God in His wisdom has provides more than enough grace and mercy each day.
Bend the knee to God.
Jesus is king of the Universe, you are not.
Jesus is Lord.
1/05 2 Corinthians 5:17
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
NEW
This is my new year.
Jesus is fresh and new each day.
Claim His leadership.
Claim His presence.
Read the “red letters” in the New Testament.
Jesus outlines everything He is calling us to.
He explains Himself.
His challenge is to become like Him.
1/04 Isaiah 43:18-19
18 “But forget all that— it is nothing compared to what I am going to do.
19 For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.
GOD
God is on the move.
Jesus is coming back.
Forget what lies behind.
Remember that Jesus is God’s everything.
Claim His way and His walk today.
Push on to what lies ahead.
Holy spirit guide us,
And lead us in the Jesus Way!
1/03 Ezekiel 36:26
And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.
NEW
New year.
New heart.
New life.
New faith.
New mercy.
New forgiveness.
Be new this year.
Jesus is Lord.
1/02 Ezekiel 11:18-20
18 “When the people return to their homeland, they will remove every trace of their vile images and detestable idols.
19 And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their stony, stubborn heart and give them a tender, responsive heart,
20 so they will obey my decrees and regulations. Then they will truly be my people, and I will be their God.
BE
Be useable.
Be available.
Be faithful.
Be there for the Lord.
Be there with the Lord.
Be about your master’s business.
Jesus is Lord of life.
1/01 Ephesians 4:22-24
22 throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception.
23 Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.
24 Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.
RENEW
Renew your mind.
Renew your relationship with the Lord.
Renew your daily walk.
Whatever you lack in your Christian lifestyle.
Renew it today and through the rest of the year.
Be about the Lord’s business.
This includes your daily activities.
Seek growth.
Seek faithfulness.
Seek for the Lord Jesus every day.
This is God’s will for your life.
12/31 Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD . “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
EVERYTHING
We have everything we need from God in Jesus Christ.
He is the Creator.
He always was, is and will be.
Jesus is Lord.
He seeks to save the lost.
He would that no one perish.
Jesus loves you.
12/30 2 Corinthians 9:15
Thank God for this gift too wonderful for words!
JESUS
Jesus the Son of God,
Came from God to gift anyone who believes,
Eternal life-life like God’s life.
He came to us in the form of a man.
He sits at the right hand of the Father
And one day soon will come again.
His 2nd Coming will be in judgment.
Claim His gift now.
Jesus come into my heart and save me.
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow.
12/29 Matthew 1:21
And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
SAVE
Jesus will save you.
Come to Him.
Ask Him to forgive you
And to come and reside in your heart.
Not my will Lord,
But Your will.
Jesus saves!
