DIVINE PROMISE

SO many people have seen the Christmas Special in theaters the past month, if you haven’t, you can still see it on The Chosen app. It is phenomenal! Christmas has passed, but the message of Christ should not only be told during the Holiday Season but throughout the year! #peoplemustknow

I don’t know about you, but 2021 has been a very tough year for me personally. I have faced things I have never faced before. If you are like me, 2022 couldn’t come any sooner.

However, what I found is that it's not the New Year that I should be looking forward to because 2022 is not promised to me. Tomorrow is not promised to anyone. As James attests to, “Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit” — yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." (James 4:13-15)

What has he shown you while you have been in the fire? Are there things that you needed to let go of? People you needed to forgive? Do you need to forgive yourself? Are you hanging onto people in your life that God has told you to let go of? Have you been putting things and others before your relationship with Him? Instead of looking forward to another year (because frankly most of us did that in 2020 and look what 2021 brought us), we should be seeking the Lord with a heart in total surrender. Maybe God has been calling you to step out into what he would have you do, but you have allowed fear and low self-worth to speak louder than his gentle whisper into your spirit.

God says that he has a plan and purpose for your life. The prophet Jeremiah said, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11)

This isn’t easy to remember when you are going through the storm, but it also says in John 10:10, “The thief cometh not but to steal and to kill and to destroy. I come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly. The thief may come and he does but we must hang onto the promises of God, He has promised to give us life and life abundantly. Incredible plans full of hope and a future.”

When we live with a heart that is surrendered and obedient, seeking what HE wants to do in our lives above all else, He will begin to reveal things to us, little by little. Don’t we want that? After all, He knows our future better than we do.

So, instead of a New Year’s resolution that we usually break in two weeks, try seeking God with all your heart to not only discover, but embrace all He has for you this coming year. Jeremiah also exhorts, “But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” (Jeremiah 29:13). He wants you to seek him because He has things He wants to share with you. “‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know." (Jeremiah 33:3). What He desires for you may not be easy... things to embrace as well as things to let go of. It may be the hardest thing you will ever have to do. It requires you to step out in faith... fully believing that God truly holds your future. But He promises with everything he his that He will never leave us nor forsake us.

Surrender your life to Him and watch Him move in 2022!

"The Lord is trustworthy in all He promises and faithful in all He does." (Psalm 145:13)

"But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one." (2 Thessalonians 3:3)

"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful." (Hebrews 10:23)

"Now set your heart and soul to seek the LORD your God." (1 Chronicles 22:19)

“And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart." (Jeremiah 24:7)