Bringing in the new year

[Administrator]

Happy new year and a Fresh Start for the New Year​

Many people, no matter what they believe, look at January 1 as a chance for a new beginning. If the previous year was disappointing or they made significant mistakes, they imagine wiping the slate clean and starting over.

Christians know that new starts are available any time, they are not dictated by the calendar. “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning” (Lamentations 3:22-23).

New Year’s Day is a day of resetting hearts, which have wandered, and of restoring the habit of turning to Christ every day for a fresh start, not in a new relationship, but in a relationship with Jesus, which is always growing.

“Take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery” (Deuteronomy 6:12). Christians are enjoined to never forget what their Lord has done for them.

A Christian who obtains his greatest joy from the Lord sees January 1 as a time to remember the goodness of God as it has unfolded across the past year. Sometimes the details of God’s intervention are only obvious when one surveys his goodness over time.

Let us stay focused on him this new year.

 

[Rowan]

To all your family, Parents, children, siblings, I wish a very Happy New Year hoping their goals would be reached with love and peace. May God always be present in your life. Have a Happy New Year.

Love the LORD, all his faithful people! The LORD preserves those who are true to him, but the proud he pays back in full. Happy New Year.

 

[praise_yeshua]

New beginnings in the Scriptures......

Php 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

Heb 11:15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
Heb 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

I sometimes find that I might be a little too nostalgic.

 

[Julie]

Prayer for a new year.

Father, forgive our narrow-mindedness and our prejudice
for accepting only that which we can understand
and those with whom we agree.
Forgive our too easy rejection of other people
and their styles of worship, their hopes, and their fears.
Forgive our unwillingness to be enriched
by one another’s insights, one another’s prayers,
and one another’s praise.
Forgive and warm our cold hearts,
awaken our closed minds,
invigorate our tired praise.
Set our lives ablaze with your love
so that we may love, serve, and hear you all the time
and everywhere so that you may receive
the glory you deserve. Amen.



David Clowes