Best Year Yet

Happy Sunday!

This is my first blog post of 2014! How exciting!

Anyways, this is going to be a great year, as I talked about in my last post. I recently started my Spring semester at ORU and I am excited about what God is going to do in the second half of my junior year. One thing that has been on my heart lately is the knowledge that God is on my side. I think that there can be a lot of worry and anxiety that could try to come in when people enter into something new. The truth is, however, that God has equipped us with more than enough to be what He has called us to be. 

Entering into this new semester, I started to come up against some fearful thoughts about how hard it might be and potentially missing my family too much. I knew right away that I needed to combat those thoughts with the Word of God. 

Psalm 56:3 says, "What time I am afraid, I will have confidence in and put my trust and reliance in You." 

To me, trusting in God is fully relying on Him. I get a picture of myself totally just releasing myself to lean on Him. This takes away any fear of the future, any worry of failure, and any thought of being lonely.

God knows the end from the beginning and I know that no matter what I may feel like right now, every day gets brighter and brighter. How do I know this? I'm glad you asked :)

Proverbs 4:18 says, "But the path of the just and righteous is like the light of dawn, that shine more and more brighter and clearer until the perfect day."

That is as positive as anything could get! To know that I'm on a path that constantly gets brighter eliminates any doubt or worry. I can trust that every day I am doing what God has called me to do and that every circumstance has to change. 

I encourage you to declare today: "I am on the path of the righteous and it gets brighter and brighter every day! Therefore, I have no fear, because God has already made a way for me!"

As always, continue to press forward in faith. I know there are areas of my life where I am choosing to believe God's Word and I know that things are changing every day! I am sure I will see God's goodness in 2014 and so will you! Believe it! Speak it out and watch things change in your life. 

Thanks for reading! I am praying for all my readers, even if I don't know your name, and I believe this will be the best year yet!