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New Beginnings //

Thankful for new beginnings to look ahead to as we started the year off with great expectations for so many hopes and dreams to come to life and truly thrive, may this be a year you experience His fullness of promises fulfilled! 

May your rescue be found in knowing your every step is known and He has a plan so good you would not believe it if you were told. May you see His true redemption from everything the locusts stole, and experience His complete restoration of all you've been stripped of! May you be encouraged that you have a faithful Father who works behind the scenes to work all things together for good for those who love him and are called according to his purpose! He cares about every detail and if He can part waters, cause manna to fall from heaven, set a blaze to a bush, heal the blind with one touch, rescue the rejected with one word, and conquer death, hell and the grave to RISE again; He CAN show his hand in your story. 

Feel like you need a new beginning? This can be it!! Don't look back; just keep moving forward with your eyes on Jesus and he will carry you into your best year yet.... 

“He who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Isa 43:16-19‬

RESPOND:

What are you hoping for the year ahead? 

Take time to write down some BIG dreams and some little dreams.  After spending more than 20 days of dreaming, sorting through and hashing out hopes, dreams, fears, worries and doubt; will you choose to praise God for his faithfulness?  Choose to thank God for answers he set into motion even before you knew to ask.  Then choose to HOPE beyond ALL expectations that this CAN and this might just be your BEST YEAR YET!  I'm hoping with you friend for it being the year you see GOD show up in immeasurable ways! 

PRAYER:

Well, Lord. This is it. The end of another journey of praying and processing and hoping for visions and dreams you’ve placed on my heart this season. Thank you for deeper times of reflection with you Father. Thank you for working on my behalf to orchestrate things to be exactly where they need to be for such a time as now!  God, give me the courage to look ahead and walk in reckless abandonment to YOU.  Let me be a reflection of you. Realign my dreams if they need to be adjusted and then show me where you’re working and how I can join you in the process. I know to you it's not about the destination, it's more about the journey, but it's still easy to get focused on where we want to be. So, please let me keep my eyes on you and continue to walk one foot in front of the other, not dwelling on the past but perceiving the NEW THING you are doing. Lord thank you, for you are always faithful.  I love you Lord. Help me to live as though life were on purpose, and help me not to forget all of your incredible promises.  Amen.

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