1/12 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.
BE
We are to BE more like Jesus each day.
Read the red letters in the New Testament.
They bear testimony to what He said.
They will know us by our love for one another.
People count with Jesus.
1/11 EZEKIEL 11:19
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,
NEW
The Father will give us a new heart.
We will respond in a different way, led by the Spirit we are His children.
Today is a new day, and I am filled with the Holy Spirit.
Jesus is guiding me.
At the end of the day I will go to sleep.
When I wake up, the Lord will begin the new day with me.
He is always by my side.
Father, Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, use me as you desire.
I am your servant.
01/10 ROMANS 5:5
5 And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.
ENCOURAGEMENT
Hope in God.
It will not disappoint.
The Father showed us how much He loves us in Jesus Christ.
Jesus shed His blood for you-His blood cleanses you from all unrighteousness.
Note that it is a gift from God that we accept-His forgiveness.
The Holy Spirit comes and resides in us.
He fills our hearts with God’s love and testifies to us that we are saved.
God’s hope will never disappoint.
01/09 LAMENTATIONS 3:22-23
22 The faithful love of the LORD never ends! His mercies never cease.
23 Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning.
YOU
God gives us His love and it is endless.
He showers us with His mercy.
It never ceases.
The mercies of God begin afresh and anew each morning.
01/08 1 PETER 1:3
3 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation,
MERCY
God’s mercy is great,
Renewed each day.
It will nourish you and equip you to serve.
Mercy is God’s gift.
He does not withhold it or retract based on how we act.
His mercy is great and just fits you.
01/07 PSALMS 31:23-24
23 Love the LORD, all you godly ones! For the LORD protects those who are loyal to him, but he harshly punishes the arrogant.
24 So be strong and courageous, all you who put your hope in the LORD!
BE
Be strong-a position of belief and activity based on God’s strength.
Be courageous-believe in God and all of the good things He sends.
Be humble-everything we have and are is eternally in Jesus Christ.
Hope in the Lord-He is worthy of all of our hope.
Jesus saves us and will carry us to the presence of the Father.
Jesus is Lord.
01/06 PROVERBS 23:18
18 You will be rewarded for this; your hope will not be disappointed.
HOPE
Hope in God.
He is worthy of all our hopes and dreams.
Hope in God.
He loves you.
Hope in God.
He has saved you.
Hope in God.
He is coming back for you.
01/05 JEREMIAH 29:11
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.
ACTIVITY
The activity of the Lord God includes thoughts of you.
He thinks of you all the time.
Every thought the Lord has towards you is a thought for good.
He does not think like we do.
He knows everything about you and still loves you completely.
Jesus loves you.
01/04 DEUTERONOMY 7:13
13 He will love you and bless you, and he will give you many children. He will give fertility to your land and your animals. When you arrive in the land he swore to give your ancestors, you will have large harvests of grain, new wine, and olive oil, and great herds of cattle, sheep, and goats.
GOD
God our Father has good plans for our life.
Even though our way looks good and right it isn’t.
God’s way is surrender, peace and joy.
Follow Jesus, not your own broken, corrupt way.
01/03 EPHESIANS 4:20-24
20 But that isn’t what you learned about Christ. 21 Since you have heard about Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from him, 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.
CHOICE
Choose God, put on the new nature He gives us.
This new nature makes us righteous and holy as He is holy.
Choose self, keep doing what you have always done.
The sin nature will continue to control you.
Success or failure, our choice.
Choose Jesus.
