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How many times in life have we started a new year without realizing the goals we had set before us or even taken the time to evaluate why those goals weren't made? We cannot live on yesterday's blessings nor should we dwell on yesterday's failures and disappointments. This is a time to forget the past and move forward into the present and the future.
Philippians 3:13-14 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Listed below are a number of messages that are appropriate for New Year's Messages
This is just a sample, abbreviated
Outline.
You can download the entire Outline by clicking on the links below
in
either PDF or Word formats:
Looking to God in the New Year - Two Messages
1. Entering into God's Presence
- PDF - Word
2. Making Christ Centered Plans - PDF - Word
Giving Your New Year a Kickstart PDF - Word - Audio
Download the PowerPoint for the Message
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For us as Bible believing Christians this is an opportunity to look back over the past year to see if we were able to make all of the desired changes we set out to do.
These messages are about how you can enter the coming new year with an profound sense of God’s presence, which will give you the faith to face all of the many challenges that shall come your way in this coming year.
The beginning of a New Year can be a season of new beginnings for us.
- It's a time to look ahead with a sense of anticipation and excitement towards the new things God wants to do in our lives.
- It is a season of setting new goals and putting into effect those things you have been putting off doing.
- It can be a day of new beginnings for each one of us.
In the Lord every day should be a day of new beginnings, but we can look to this season as a time to reflect and re-evaluate where we are and where we are going in God.
2 Corinthians 4:16b Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
- God wants to create a sense of newness in each one of our lives.
- I believe it is always God's desire that we be filled with a sense of newness and freshness of what He desires and wants to do in our lives.
- He desires greatly for us to be filled with a renewed sense of purpose and destiny.
- This is what is really needed before we can give ourselves a good kickstart.
The new year offers us the chance to wipe the slate clean and start over once again. It is a time to set new goals and to make plans as to how you will meet those goals. As every day in the Lord should be, the new year is a day of new beginnings. My question to you today is, "What kind of goals and plans will you make in this new year as you seek to serve Christ and His Kingdom in a greater way?” |
