By: Monique Smith
Happy
New Year everyone! I pray that everyone had happy holidays and spent time with
family and friends! Most importantly, I hope everyone spent some time with God,
to find out the direction He wants you to move in this new year. If you haven’t done that yet, there is still
time.
A
way that you can discover the plans God has for you is to spend more time with
Him and to listen better. How can you listen better? Clear your life of
distractions and deny your flesh. Your flesh is LOUD and its desires often are
louder than the voice of God. The flesh presents
you with the logic to listen to it now and talk to God later. However, in this New
Year, you DON’T have to fall victim to the flesh! God gave us power. So let’s
use it! “Behold, I have given you authority to
tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing
shall hurt you.” Luke 10:19
We
can start this year off with consecrating ourselves from things, foods, and
people who pull on our flesh and distract us away from God. Join me in fasting from January 2- January 30th
from sweets, breads, sodas, fast food, and all social media!** During this
time, I will also memorize scripture so I will be able to hide the word more
effectively in my heart! “I
have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. “ Psalm
119:11. It’s easy for your flesh to bend scripture
and reason with you to sin, especially if you don’t know what the scripture says!
Think about Eve, she misquoted God and the enemy tripped her up on her lack of
knowledge. It’s not cute to walk around
half quoting scriptures, especially if you perish because of it. It’s time to
get the Word in our mouth, so it will be in our minds, and infiltrate our heart
and our souls! People of God, we have to get better and God is here to help us!
All we have to do is start! God will give you strength to continue.
Lastly, during this consecration, I encourage
you all to set a fitness goal for the month. What good is it to be “spiritually
healthy” but completely ignore the body and life God has blessed us with by
being lazy and eating things that are unhealthy.
Prayer: God! It’s another year and I’m glad, I’M GLAD ABOUT
IT! Whew! Lord! This year is going to be awesome and exciting!!! God help me
with this consecration so I will be able to deny the flesh more effectively in
2013 and be controlled by YOUR will Lord, and not MINE! God, I need your help!
I can not do this alone! God, link me up with other believers who are interested
in growing closer to you, the way I am! I love you Lord! In Jesus name, Amen!
** Feel free to alter the consecration
however you desire. You know what distracts you most, so do what is best for
you.
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