I never thought I'd see the day when 2009 would be over.
Its definitely a year I waited for my whole life- counting down for it throughout high school- wondering if it would ever rescue me.
Although I thought 2009's significance would depend only on my graduation year, its definite that its held far more than that...
If you could think back to the best meal you've ever had. How you ate so much you could physcially feel the seems in your pants begin to burst. Afterwords you are full. So full in fact you could hardly think of eating any more.
Thats how I feel about 2009. I feel like its been so full of blessings and grace and love that I can't even contemplate how there could be more
But with my God I know- there is always more. There is always new expectations and new joys. Every morning.
This year...
my biggest thank you to God would be him revealing Truth to me. Understanding His will and his purpose for me a little clearer... allowing Him to take over more and more of life. Giving Him the pieces I clung to so closely and being able to hear His voice because I began to obey Him...
He truly showed me that His grace is sufficient... and power is made perfect in weakness.
Deuteronomy 28
1 If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2 All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.
6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
7 The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.
8 The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
9 The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in his ways. 10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will fear you. 11 The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your forefathers to give you.
12 The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. 13 The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. 14 Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.
2010 calls for obedience
Obedience is how we discover the love of God. Obedience is how we are able to draw closer to him. Obedience is how we break bonds and yokes in our life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-lY8VQpSTY&feature=related
Let 2010 not just be a year of new beginnings but a continuation of those beginnings... replenishing desires that have burned out and a hunger that should not have faded. Let 2010 be something more than we could have ever anticipated
Although there may remain hardships do not forget the places God has brought you out of.
Do not Forget.
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