IT’S NEW YEAR’S EVE
and a lot of people are thinking about new beginnings. Perhaps starting totally over; new marriage, a more promising job, a better neighborhood. The first month of the year is a typical time for many to think of healthy and happy life improvements…

Goals not met, expectations not nearly fulfilled, hopes dashed are typical reasons some people want to start over. Because of this, New Year’s Eve gets some stirred up that here is another year, a brand-new year, to live, grow, change; and this new year might be different, more profitable, even more exciting in hoping their lives may start lining up more closely with their dreams.

Selah.

It’s very interesting to me that this  holiday comes directly after Christmas. The Light of the world has just been celebrated: Jesus Christ.  There is nothing wrong with celebrating New Year’s in the hopes that life will be better, and even better in a variety of very possible ways. No, not at all. But let me give all of you outside of a relationship with the Light of the world the answers.

(For you who already love and adore, worship and claim Christ as your only Lord and Savior, this teaching will remind you and refresh you; you are in the right place!)

You see, many people are let down after Christmas because of the way they ‘celebrate’ it…

Should they be? No!

The joy of the Lord should be your strength, your goal, your lifestyle!

 

Nehemiah 8:10
Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

 

Enjoy yourselves! Share! God is the Lord! Only He! Do not grieve! Your joy of God is to be your strength! Absolutely your joy can only come from the God who created you, has a plan for you, and who has always wanted you in His family:

 

John 3:16-18
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

 

But: you have to believe in order to receive – not His love, He has always loved you! You have to believe in His gift of salvation:

 

Revelation 12:11
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

 

This is why so many are depressed, let down, suicidal during the blessed Christmas season! No hope, no joy, no love comes anywhere except from God and through God!

Selah.

Make 2023 a year of change! For those of you who believe the lies of your most virulent enemy: that is Satan, the devil (whether you believe his existence or not) overcome and stay that way through the Light of the world, Jesus Christ!

 

ENJOY A JOYFUL NEW YEAR AND A JOYFUL ETERNITY!

 

John 8:12
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

 

 

 

BECOME A CHILD OF GOD:
Make certain you do know, you do believe. Confused? Ask God and read His Word. Ask for guidance to understand.

 

God in Heaven,

I come to You in the name of Your only begotten Son, Jesus. I have sinned. I now believe and know that Jesus is fully God, fully Man. He lived a sinless life and took all of my sickness and infirmities in His body. He died on the cross for my sins. I believe and know that He was raised from the dead so I might be saved from Hell and have eternal life in Your Kingdom with you forevermore.

Jesus, I ask you to be my only Lord and Savior. Please forgive me of my sins and wash them away with Your holy blood; never to be remembered again. Please take my sickness or any health issue I have by the stripes You endured for all mankind…

I will now strive to live my life for You to my best ability and with the help of You, Holy Spirit, I strive to seek You, study You and worship You all the days of my life, which are forever, amen!

I denounce Satan and his kingdom now and forevermore!

I also ask to be baptized in You, Holy Spirit, with the evidence of this by praying in other tongues, my heavenly language.

(To receive your heavenly language – take it by faith – just as you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Simply start speaking syllables – do not say anything in your known language/s. It WILL come – just believe. Satan will tell you it is false – never listen to the father of lies. Pray in tongues every day!)

Thank You, God, for forgiving me, cleansing me, healing me in every way, staying with me and praying with me.

In Jesus name, I pray this, amen.

 

 

MORE SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS FOR YOUR VICTORY:

 

Romans 3:21-26
But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

 

Isaiah 53:4-5
Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

 

1 Peter 2:24
“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”

 

Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

 

Romans 10:9-10
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach):  that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

 

Acts 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

 

1 Corinthians 14:2
For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit.

 

DO NOT BE DECEIVED! You must continue your relationship as a child of God!
Live this way:

 

2 Timothy 4:7-8                                                                                                                                  I
have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day-and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

 

Hebrews 3:14
We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.

 

Revelation 3:5
He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.