Happy New Year! It is officially the year 2010 and I am looking forward to what God is gonna do this year as I walk with Him.
Last year, I began a new tradition. Instead of making a New Years resolution, I decided to pray for a word from God. For the year 2009, the word was Discover. I could go on for hours about all that I discovered last year about me, about God, about life, about kids. I'll go ahead and share a few things. One of the things that I discovered was that God is near to the brokenhearted. I never imagined that I would go through the things that I went through, but I did. I am glad for the relationship that I had in place with the Lord already as it all happened. I cannot imagine ever going through something as painful as I did without the Lord in my life. I discovered a Father, a Daddy, a husband in the Lord. I also began to discover what I like and don't like. It was a new day for me. I tried Sushi for the first time... I LIKE IT!!! I LOVE FISH TACOS too!! I don't like asparagus. LAUGHING is my favorite and I love to be around people that make me pee my pants laugh. I can run 13.1 miles and probably further. I don't like being alone, but it doesn't bother me as bad as it used to. I have NO desire to do this life alone. I LOVE being held close. I LOVE yummy smells. I love being silly with my girls. I LOVE long talks about Jesus. I LOVE LOVE to pray for others. I LOVE the sun- sunrises and sunsets move me. I LOVE floating down the James river in innertubes. I love picnics on the rocks at Pony Pasture. I LOVE photography. I love the fact that it's hard for me to hold a grudge for too long. I LOVE to smile. I LOVE to watch people as they worship the creator of the Universe and the expression on their face as they love on Him, and maybe the biggest discovery of all for Christy was that I am worth loving. I found my self worth for the first time this year and now I am on a mission to help others find theirs too. All of these things I have discovered about myself. I guess I always kinda knew most of them, but I REALLY took note about it all this year.
At the end of this year I started to pray for a new word. God promised me that this is the Year of JOY for me. He is going to replace all of those tears of sorrow from this past year with JOY. It's day 6 of January and so far, every tear that I have shed this year has been a tear of joy. Here is what God is already doing....
I got to ring in the New Year with some BEAUTIFUL friends. They love Jesus and I am sooo glad that God has brought them into my life. They make me feel like I belong to a family which is something that I have longed to have. We prayed in the New Year together. On New Years Day, I got together with some othere friends. We watched Facing the Giants. That has now become my favorite movie! The movie reminds me of one of my favorite friends. Anyway... I ended up in a conversation with a new friend who challenged me on ALOT of things. Knowing the Word of God better than I do, tithing on my gross and not my net...I was CHALLENGED! When Sunday rolled around, I knew that I was to begin tithing on my gross salary..... I want a GROSS blessing and I ain't talkin bloody eyeballs lol!!! I also challenged one of my closest friend to begin doing the same thing. We are now walking in complete obedience and we are absolutely blown away at what God is doing already! People are being freed and challenged in their walks with the Lord. Financial blessings are coming. Healing is taking place. GOD is blessing us both and we are excited to watch God do amazing things in our lives. Soooo... my challenge to you today is this. Is there an area of life where you need to become obedient to God? Are you missing out on some major blessings because you don't REALLY believe Him?? Why don't you let Him prove Himself to you??? HE wants to! Nobody is more crazy in love with You than He is! Maybe you need a word for the year. Pray and ask God to give you one. He gave my daughters each a word. Emme's word is LOVE. She wants to love people better. Chloe's word is Peace. She is standing on God's word for healing of her anxiety. I believe that He is going to heal her completely in the year 2010. Whatever it is... get close to God.
For everyone who reads this blog.. I am praying for you! You are worth loving!!!!
2 comments:
I love it!! My word for 2009 was LOVE! "Perfect love casts out all fear".
God has told me that my word for 2010 is REDEEM. ”Put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption.” – Psalm 130:7
My word is TRUST. It's something I've needed to learn for a long time and this is my year for learning it. He's placing people in my life that I need to place an amount of trust in, while teaching me to trust HIM with everything. Needless to say, It's my favorite word right now(:
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