12/31/14 IT IS A NEW YEAR

12/31/14 IT IS A NEW YEAR
(this might be worth reading)

It will be a good year to be a New Creature, walking in Newness of Life, serving God in Newness of Spirit, having put on the New Man, walking in a New and Living Way, aligned with the New Covenant (Testament), fulfilling the New Commandment, having a New Name and singing a New Song, looking for the New Heaven, New Earth and New Jerusalem, where God makes All Things New.

"But," you may ask, "What about me?" Maybe it is time for a New Attitude, or New Dreams and Visions, or a New Desire or New Commitment. Let's face it, not everyone is geared or programmed for success. But God will impart a New Heart and a New Spirit to those who are filled with His Spirit and walk in His way, enabling spiritual success to all of God's children.

Not everyone is visionary, and not every Christian has visionary faith, which dreams the dreams of God. But those who are visionary, are the ones who blaze trails and triumph over adversity, and those Christians who have visionary faith, follow God into the realm of the unimaginable and accomplish the impossible. How fresh is your dream? How clear is your vision? How driven is your desire? Are your dreams coming true or are they fading with the years?

The way to get a dream, a vision from God, is to surrender to His will and let God get hold of your heart, your mind, your life. The way to make a dream come true is to DO IT. But DOING IT includes the sacrificing, the preparation, the risking, the redirection of our lives. It takes vision just to do the will of God. It takes dedicated vision to do the work of God.

Not everyone can be visionary, but every Christian can have visionary faith. It comes with surrender to, and saturation with the Holy Spirit. We have so little vision, we have so little faith we have so little success in our walk with God, because we have so little of God in our walk.

UNLESS...
Unless we take time to be with God, to know God, to love God, to experience God in the deepest recesses of our being, we will not be mightily used by God. Unless our intimate time with God changes us, empowers us, cleanses us, redirects us, humbles us, then our time with God will be a witness against us. Unless we die to self and sin we will not be usable to God. Unless God occupies the throne of our hearts we will be double minded, carnal minded and therefore not fit for the family of God or fit for working in the family business of God.