Happy New Year

I feel the earth moving beneath my feet as the new year begins. The presence of God is full and His mighty hand is a powerful force in my life. I anxiously await what He has in store for me and my family in 2009.

I was looking over my spiritual journal last night and there are a few insights that God had given me last year that I need to be reminded of as I move into the glorious new year that God has set before me.

Here are a few of the highlights of how God spoke to me over the year...I plan to hold fast to His Word and listen attentively to how He whispers to me in the coming weeks and months.

1. Everyday Celebrations--There is something worth getting excited about every single day--find it, focus on it and be full in it.

2. God's Authority--God made clear He has set the vision for my life and asked that now I just wait patiently...even if that means waiting through some darkness.

3. The Everyday Jesus--If my eyes are truly open it will be in the daily events of my life that I see the magnificence of Jesus. Obedience in the smallest areas brings the greatest rewards.

4. A big God--God told me to allow Him to be unleashed in my life...don't settle for my way of thinking...Isaiah 55:8 tells me "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways."

5. Serving Him--He gave me a deep and abiding desire to serve Him by serving others...that may be "the least of these" or it may be showering my love on those closest to me.

I feel blessed and exuberant about this new day that the Lord has given me. May you feel the same passion.