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Happy New Year!


Happy new year dear readers!
A lot has happened since I last posted on here, but I’ll spare you the details because you are not here to keep up with my personal life. You come here for encouragement and upliftment, so that’s what you’ll get, Lord-willing 😊.
Most of us would have started the year all fired-up and revving to go, to go achieve all the goals we have set, to meet new targets, to build new relationships and indeed, to just have a wonderful trail-blazing year! There’s a general feeling of great expectations in the atmosphere (vague term, but I am sure you understand), isn’t there?
I came across this verse in Hebrews during the holidays, and timely it was. It says:
“So, we say with confidence,
“The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?”” (Hebrews 13:6)
Reading this inspired great courage in me to achieve remarkable things this year, to let go of my fears and to not be held down by the opinions of others.
That’s not all I learnt though. It goes even deeper. Further down in the same chapter, I read this:
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing His will, and may He work in us what is pleasing to Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever (Hebrews 13 v 20 - 21, emphasis mine) 
We all want this year to be spectacular, but what is most spectacular is knowing that God has planned good works for you and me to accomplish, and even more, He is working in us to do what is pleasing to Him. Ephesians 2: 10 buttresses this point:
...we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
So, thank God, 2018 does not have to be another year of aimless hustle. There is a master-plan of good works God has set aside for us to achieve, and if we trust in Jesus and rely on His Spirit to help and guide us, we will achieve much more than we have written in our fresh diaries and planners. He will work in us to please Him.
Stay blessed and have a happy new year!
Love,
FeyVored
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  1. Ponlexious7 January 2018 at 14:16

    Another encouraging word FeyVored, it is very re-assuring to know that even in uncertainty God's promises are ye and amen! Surely must endeavour to key into them even as we launch into the new year.

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