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CONQUER YOUR NEW YEAR.
Joshua 6:1-5, Joshua 6:14-21 you. When you are reflecting,
never allow yourself to fall into
Well, here it is 2022 and a condemnation over your past
multitude of New Year years accomplishments versus
Resolutions have already been the things you didn’t quite get
broken. done. Don’t fall for that track
because the enemy is just trying
Me, personally, I have been
making the same news year to mess with your head. Dwell on
resolution for the past 20 years, those areas where you were
and I can say with all truth, I successful in and how you can
have never broken it. Simply put, accomplish more this year. Dwell
my new years resolution is to not on how you can conquer this
make any new year resolution. year.
Hey, it works for me. Don’t just reflect on your
accomplishments, but also on
I do however set goals and a
vision of what I would like to what has been going on around
accomplish in the upcoming year. you.
This past year, I saw people
Now it is natural for us to look
back over last year and reflect on commit their life to Christ. I saw
what we did or did not people lives completely
accomplish in our lives during transformed into a new person. I
that time. saw people healed and made
whole. I saw people who were
I like to measure thinks like, completely broken restored with
hope, joy, and love in them again.
My time in God’s word, the
consistency of my prayer life, did God was doing things all around
I achieve everything I set out to me and thankfully, He blessed me
do, and did I go to church just to by doing some of these things
go to church, or did I go to grow through me.
spiritually?
Now I am not saying that there
Let me warn you of something is a problem with New Year
the enemy will try to use against resolutions, I am just saying, it is
