Happy New Year 2025.

New thoughts and studies.

It's been a busy few years. We have had alot of victories and losses. I am continuing my education I am a constant learner.

God is such a good good God he gets sweeter and sweeter as the days go bye.

I started a Bible plan to read the Bible in 60 days it's awesome. I figure if I can watch TV for a couple hours, studying for hours is so much better. I am in Bible School and loving it. I am also in Business School. I love learning. My career path has carried me into a associate manager position starting January 6. 2025. I know God's got our back and I am going to share more on the directions God is carrying our steps in near future.

The Deeper The Wound The Greater The Glory!

The Lord’s Prayer Declares His Kingdom Come Jesus taught his disciples how to pray. Today many people recite the Lord’s prayer either at the beginning, during or end of spiritual activities or services. The Lord’s prayer of course is not used as recited prayer. Jesus wanted his disciples to learn not to recite the prayers, but learn to change their mindsets and attitudes of how to pray. When we pray and declare His Kingdom come, His will be done, on earth as it is heaven, we remind ourselves that we are citizens of heaven, living on earth. Jesus wants us to act like citizens of heaven, living a life on earth with power and authority of heaven on earth.

You Don’t Need Someone’s Approval To Be Happy

You can be happy no matter what happens in your life if you don’t let others control your attitude.

In Philippians 1:15-17, Paul talks about four kinds of people who were affecting his ministry while he was in prison in Rome. There were some who he considered comrades and who encouraged him in his ministry. Others were criticizing, competing with, or conspiring against his ministry.

“Some of them preach Christ because they are jealous and quarrelsome, but others from genuine good will. These do so from love, because they know that God has given me the work of defending the gospel. The others do not proclaim Christ sincerely, but from a spirit of selfish ambition; they think that they will make more trouble for me while I am in prison” (Philippians 1:15-17 ).

Few things rob your happiness faster than being criticized or feeling like others are working against you. Why? Because we all want to be loved. We all want approval. We want everybody to like us.

Yet Paul says in Philippians 1:18, “It does not matter! I am happy about it — just so Christ is preached in every way possible, whether from wrong or right motives. And I will continue to be happy.”

You don’t need other people’s approval to be happy.

You’re as happy as you choose to be! If others are unhappy with you, that’s their choice. If you haven’t got someone’s approval now, you’re probably not going to get it. And you’re going to be miserable if you try to live for the approval of everybody else.

Paul later explains in verses 29 and 30 why you can be happy no matter what: “For you have been given not only the privilege of trusting in Christ but also the privilege of suffering for him. We are in this struggle together. You have seen my struggle in the past, and you know that I am still in the midst of it”.

Paul says it is a privilege to suffer when you’re doing the right thing because you’re most like Jesus when somebody’s nailing you to a cross and trying to get at you.

You can be happy no matter what happens if you look at every problem from God’s viewpoint and never let what other people say or do control your happiness.

Something New...

Do not remember the former things,

Nor consider the things of old.

Behold, I will do a new thing,

Now it shall spring forth…

Isaiah 43:18-19

I love new beginnings...

I love second chances, third opportunities, and fourth starting-fresh experiences. The list and numbers go on.

Jesus loves new things, too. That is what grace is all about. And mercy. Also, the power of repentance and forgiveness and deliverance. He is all about doing new things, especially in His lambs’ lives (Revelation 21:5).

Charting a new course, deciding to turn a new leaf on the page of our lives, or simply wanting to get out of a rut of comfort that has left us oh-so-unsatisfied doesn’t have to be a marked date on the calendar. We don’t have to wait for the start of a new year beginning. We don’t have to tarry for a significant life event to occur or an epic pivotal moment. Jesus never stops creating new avenues, new paths, and certainly, new lives and hearts.

Yes, the Lord loves to do new things, even making the impossible possible. Somehow, He never tires of replacing old things with new things. Exchanging our worn-out and tired dreams for what He actually has in mind for our lives. And renewing those areas of our soul weighing us down instead of sending us soaring on eagle’s wings.

Let’s let the Magnificent Creator fashion something new in us today, this week, and this new year (if, indeed, we are reading this in January!). It is time to let some old things go and extend our hands to receive His fresh gifts in, to, and through our lives.

We won’t be disappointed.

Prayer: Father Lord, let your kingdom come to my life, to my family, to my workplace, to my ministry, your will be done in my life, my family, my workplace and my ministry powerfully as it is in heaven. In Jesus' name, Amen.

Bible in 60 days here are daily reading if you want to go on this journey with me.

Day 1, Genesis 1-23, Day 2, Genesis 24-39

Day 3, Genesis 40 - Exodus 7, Day 4 Exodus 8-27, Day 5, Exodus 28-40, Leviticus 1-7

Day 6, Leviticus 8-27, Day 7, Numbers 1-17