Your New Year's Resolutions are limiting you!

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Setting new year's goals/resolutions is a good habit, which most times helps us grow, ensuring that we are better than we were the previous year. However, sometimes we set our goals and get so focused on them that we totally forget to ask God  what He has in store for us.

As we set our new year's resolutions, I suggest we consider two sets of resolutions: 

• My-to-do resolutions
• God's resolutions for me

My-to-do resolutions 

These are things that we desire to do, areas we desire to be better at. And in most cases, there's a lot we can do in our capacity to bring them to accomplishment. But I find it quite interesting that we think we can do so all by ourselves, yet we can't even guarantee that we will see tomorrow.

"Now listen, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.' Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes."

-James 4:13-14

Even if we had any assurance that our plans would come to pass, if we stick only to our human wisdom to guide us, we shall never live the full life God intends for us, because:

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 "What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived"— the things God has prepared for those who love him—

-1 Corinthians 2:9

He intends to give us things we have never heard of, things we have never even imagined; so if we only use our human wisdom to set our goals, we are limiting ourselves_ we shall only set goals basing on the things we have heard of and/or imagined, and not the God-perceived kind of goals.

"Now to him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,"

-Ephesians 3:20

Think about the personalities in the Bible, from Abraham, Mary, Joseph, Jesus, to the disciples, none of them did usual things.

Abraham would never have thought of leaving his father's land into an unknown land; Mary conceiving while virgin; Jeremiah, Moses, David among others, all had one thing in common: they prioritized God's resolutions over their own.

Don't leave a small life yet you can live a big life directed by God.

Mary's plans or resolutions to get married that year to handsome Joseph were at risk because of God's plans. She wasn't sure Joseph would continue with the plans of marrying her, but she said to God's messenger, "Let it be unto me as you have said."

Jeremiah might have been going to school or doing whatever young men had to do in those days, but God's plans required him to become a prophet.

Seek the Lord oh, mortal man, that he may reveal his plan for your year, 2021.

A while back I began seeking God for the year ahead, because back then I had no pastor to proclaim a word for the year for me, so I had to do it for myself.

I used to pray and seek God from as early as November and by December, God would surely have given me insight into the next year. 

And now that I am under an amazing pastor, I realize it is important to receive the word regarding the new year from my Pastor, as well as to seek God for insight about the year on a more personal level, for my family, for my friends and my community.

"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."

-Jeremiah 33:3

Don't leave a small life yet you can live a big life directed by God.

"because they rebelled against God's commands and despised the plans of the Most High. So he subjected them to bitter labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help."

Psalms 107:11-12

As we pray for this new year's resolutions, let's also pray that God's will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Dear God, please help us live the lives that you want us to live this year. May we be at the right place, at the right time, just ready for your miracle. We lift this year into your hands.

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Till next Wednesday, friends.

God bless you!