Too often we look forward to the new year while retaining the same old attitudes, desires, habits, friends, and not understanding we must change to experience a change. We must do a new thing to experience something new.
Be aware that trying something new will not be easy, comfortable, and it will require considerable commitment and sacrifice. The question is how much do we really want to experience life in a new dimension? How much stronger do we want to be in spirit, mind, and body? Do we truly want to draw closer to God and the purpose for which He created us? Are we ready to put aside the weights of sin that so easily beset us - those things that distract us and slow us down. I know what mine are and you know what yours are --- will we lay them down and run with endurance this year. The Holy Spirit empowers us to live in peace and that is to be whole, lacking nothing. When we live in the power of the Holy Spirit we have the power to endure the hardship of making the changes necessary to do a new thing.
With the power of the Holy Spirit this year we will experience life differently in 2011. We will not react the same way, we will not interact with anyone the same way, and we will not operate on the same priorities - we will live our lives in obedience to the will and word of God. Our decisions will be made prayerfully and with fasting. In relationships we will move beyond friendship to fellowship where we hold one another accountable according to the word of God, we pray for one another, encourage one another, love one another, and provoke one another to good works. We will not forsake the assembling of ourselves together in 2011 and will understand and respect the need to open ourselves to prayer and studying of the scriptures in our homes, workplaces, and at every given opportunity.
Yes 2011 is going to bring about a new way of being in our lives...starting NOW!
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