January 1, 2010

I was reading my bloggy friend Paula's post. As she talked about her goals she listed An Imperfect Perfection's post discussing a word list for 2010. I've decided to also adopt a word list. See mine below:

My word list for 2010
Using Galatians 5:22-23
"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law."
I will add honor, obey and praise to make up 12. Each month I will focus on each word as a theme for that month.

2010 Monthly Word list
January: Joy
February: Love
March: Peace
April: Longsuffering (enduring persecution)
May: Kindness
June: Goodness
July: Faithfullness
August: Gentleness
September: Self-control
October: Honor
November: Obedience
December: Praise

These lines below are from "The Gate of the Year," a poem written in 1908 by Minnie Louise Haskins:
I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year
"Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown."
And he replied, "Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way!"

Quote:
"God holds the future in His hands
With grace sufficient day by day;
Through good or ill He gently leads,
If we but let Him have His way." --Rohrs

My prayer is that each one of you will adopt something or create something for the coming year to grow your relationship with the LORD!

Happy New Year!

Friday Fill-Ins #157

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1. Last night I had fun with friends to bring in the new year.
2. This is going to be a great year.
3. The funniest thing happened to me on the way to my friend's.
4. I'm finished with 2009...so where do we go from here?
5. He said blah blah blah; she said Ya don't say!.
6. The car is missing and it's up to us to find it.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to relaxing, tomorrow my plans include seeing a couple clients and hopefully having some play time with my honey, and Sunday, I want to go to church and worship & praise Jesus for the beginnings for 2010!

Watch for my Words list post later! I'm still working on the content!

Happy New Year!

2010 Words of life

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Please do NOT copy.]

Last December I posted: My 2009 Resolution. There were some of you who also did this. I challenge each of you to seek words from the Lord and use scripture as your 2010 life verse(s). We do this in an effort to strive to be more Christ like and grow more in our faith instead of making new year's resolutions that we end up failing at. God's word is more powerful and challenging in that we seek Him daily. New year's resolution or empty promises. God's Word if full of wonderful promises that never get broken.

My word(s) for 2010 is light and life. My scripture verses are:

Matthew 11:28-30
28 Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.”

John 8:12 Jesus said, “I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won’t have to walk in darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life.”

John 4:13-14
13 Jesus said, “Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. 14 But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”

Go to prayer and seek your life word(s) for your 2010 life scripture and make a statement to the World for the Lord.

I've also put my life scripture at the foot of my blog to be visible by all who visit. Won't you join me and participate in life scripture?

Post Revisit: The Word or A Resolution

Last December some of us bloggers did a New Year's Word(s) from the Lord instead of New Year's Resolutions. The link provided is my New Year's Word(s). In a couple of weeks I'll be creating my new one for 2010. I'd like to encourage each of you to participate this year. Take this time to pray about it and allow the Holy Spirit within to guide you to the right word(s) to glorify God in 2010. As you will see in my post I also have used a "life verse(s)" and I made it visible in the footer of this blog. I also encourage you to do this. Referring back to it often through the year as a reminder of how God is working in your life.

The Word or A Resolution <---Click here to revisit last year's post.

Stay warm and cozy. It looks like it's going to be a "cold" Winter.