New year means new beginnings

I'm choosing today to begin to write again as I look outside it's pouring down rain and it reminds me how all things can be washed clean. My God is BIG enough to wash all things clean.

As I think and reflect on last year and then look forward to this new year I begin to think of resolutions. I've never really been a fan of resolutions because they're just something that I continuously don't meet up to. A few years ago I decided to do something different. I decided to pray and ask God to reveal his plans for me for that year.

Remembering that His ways are better than my ways. And I have enjoyed the last few years much better than the previous. So this year as I enter in to asking the Lord to reveal what he has for me this year I've had some friends tell me what they're praying for me this year. It is so encouraging to have friends that pray Scripture over you.

I am blessed to walk with some amazing people. But this did not come easy. I searched and I searched for friends and mentors and leaders who not only encourage me and challenge me but who also call me out of my box. And the Lord has been so good to give me exactly who I needed.  One of the Scriptures is Psalm 37:4: Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.

I acknowledge these people have not always been who I've asked for and it is not always been fun but I would rather live in His will. 

I claim 2015 to be a new year with new beginnings and a new season. The old things have died and the new things are being birthed.

Isaiah 43:16-21   This is what God says, the God who builds the road right through the ocean, who carves a path through pounding waves, the God who summons horses and chariots and armies -they lie down and then can't get up; their snuffed out like so many candles: 

"Forget about what has happened; don't keep going over old history. Be alert, be present. I'm about to do something Brand-New. It's bursting out! Don't you see it? There it is! I'm making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands. Wild animals will say "Thank you!" -the coyotes and the buzzards- because I provided water in the desert, rivers through the sun-baked earth, drinking water for people I chose, the people I made especially for myself, a people custom-made to praise me.

I have definitely been through a season that I would call a desert and the Lord has always been faithful to provide me water to drink, food to eat, and a shelter   I have never lacked any necessity.

Thank you Father for all that you have done and all that you are doing and all that you will do.