LOOK AT THIS NEW THING!

 

Isaiah 43:18-19

 

"Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." ESV

 

It is sometimes good to reflect back over the past year to take inventory of our successes and failures. But we don't have to dwell on things that went wrong or allow things to keep us lodged in guilt and remorse. If we dedicate our lives, just as they are, to the Lord, He will take what we have and make a whole new adventure that will bring us into His will. There will be a way when we thought there was none. There will be hope when all was lost. There will be blessings when we couldn't see anything but gloom. Look, can you see what He is doing?

 

Heavenly Father, how we praise You for taking the ashes of our lives and making beauty. Help us to stop seeing our future by looking at our past and to start looking to You as You begin to unfold the wonderful things You are doing for us now and the coming year. In Jesus' name, Amen.

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Bobbi Craigmyle, Psy.D., BCPCC

 

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REMEMBER WHAT GOD HAS DONE

We can become so comfortable in our earthly possessions and our lives
that we forget about the fact that it all belongs to God and it is by His
grace and mercy that He has allowed us to experience it. We must watch
our attitude about our prosperity and worldly possessions that they don't blind us to who we really are in God's eyes.

Heavenly Father, we thank you for the many blessings you have given to us. We pray that you help us to never allow these blessings to become more important to us than our relationship to You. In Jesus' name.

Read Deuteronomy 6:11b,12

".......the when you eat and are satisfied, be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery." (NIV)

".......when thou shalt have eaten and be full; Then beware lest thou
forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of bondage." (KJV)

    
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GET RID OF OLD THINKING

We have learned by human experience that the best predictor of
future behavior in humans in past behavior. This principle does
not hold true with God. He cannot be predicted nor does He limit
Himself to the same ways of working or to the ways we think He
should work. We can be sure that God can and will do that which
seems impossible to the human mind, make something out of nothing,
and call into being those things that do not exist.

Read Isaiah 43:18,19

"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 desert and streams in the wasteland."(NIV)

"Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know
it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert." (KJV)




  
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Bobbi Craigmyle
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