HAPPY NEW YEAR – IT’S A NEW SEASON, IT’S A NEW DAY

Please bear with me. I know this article is really late but it has been a period of celebration for me. I have gone from enjoying Christmas to enjoying the entire season and I guess it has been so for you also. I truly give God all the glory. Who says believers do not have fun in Christ? There is joy in God’s kingdom; joy which cannot be described but full of glory.  

Happy New Year and I wish you a very prosperous new year. It would be a great year, one in which those that know their God would truly rejoice in Him because they will not only be strong but also do exploits. You just need to know what season of life you are in or as they say, ‘what time it is for you.’ The understanding of where you are at makes it easier to go through every season of life.

The bible does say that there is a time and a season for everything under the sun; the problem is that sometimes everything gets mixed up and we cannot rightly decipher what season we are in so that we then act inappropriately. Sometimes when we think we are in our lowest season, we are actually entering into the peak of another great season of life.

Ecclesiastes 3: 1 “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.” 

Though everything may be going bad so that you think the worst has happened, it is just the beginning of a new day for the bible describes a day as evening and morning. Every new day starts from the evening and as it gets darker, the morning is actually approaching. Relax, do not fear when it gets darker, the day is about to break. I guess you are saying “easier said than done’; guess what! I am saying the same thing too, but this is truth that we must accept and live by.

Genesis 1: 5 “God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.

I have realized that unless the sun rises, there can’t be day because no other light can bring about day. All artificial light is made to go so far and cannot go beyond their sphere of influence. Also, no amount of help can resolve the issues of our lives when God dims the light to bring us into another day but when it is time for the day to break, He sends in the sun and everything goes bright suddenly so that we are like them that dream. He shall be turning on the lights in our lives that you and I may truly shine for Him. 

You may feel now like you are at the end of the road and nothing can happen for you again; you think this article is not for people like you but it is. If God destroyed this entire earth in the time of Noah and yet put it all together then I am certain that He can put you together again. You cannot give up. You have looked to Him too long to give up now. Unlike Humpty Dumpty, in the children’s rhyme, you can be put back together again because the one putting you together again is the King of all Kings.

So what if you keep trying that which He has told you to do and you keep failing? If He has not told you to stop, please by all means try again. Noah may have had to live in the ark for a long time if he did not keep sending out the birds until they did not return. That thing you have been working at will suddenly come together. It was always God’s plan for it to succeed but the ‘waters needed to dry up.’

There is STILL Much Land To Conquer in 2011!

Welcome to 2011. If you are reading this article, you definitely made it into this year. I can’t help but thank Him for His goodness in bringing us all into this New Year. My prayer is that the same God that brought us into this year will see us through the year and take us through several other years to come.

Just as you settle into the year, please permit me to ask – do you have a word from the Lord that you intend to run with this year? If you don’t have a word, you can always find one in the scriptures that jumps out at you. There must be a word of promise that would speak to you. Well, if nothing appears to jump out at you, maybe you can share “my word”. Okay maybe not all of it but some of it.

Amongst several other things, one of the principal things I hear God say to me is “there is yet more land to conquer”. This, for me, is not just about physical land. It is about land and also heights that I have to attain unto. It is about the promises of God that are yet to be fulfilled in my life, the things I need to do for God that are still undone and the things I need to do for others, society that are still undone. As I meditate on those words I know that there is truly yet more land to conquer.

Some of those things are left undone not because I did not know about or want to do them but because of the seeming challenges associated with completing each task. I have a whole lot of seemingly good reasons but despite all that, God is reminding me that there is yet more land to conquer. This reminds me of Joshua. I am wondering how he must have felt when in his old age and at the time when he may have been thinking that he has done well and should be retiring, God spoke to him and said there is yet more land to conquer.
Then God goes on to itemize all the land that is yet to be conquered.

Joshua 13: 1NLT - “you are growing old, and much land remains to be conquered.”

After carefully thinking about that scripture, a few things are clear to me which written below for all those who like me, have yet more land to conquer.

1. God is aware of what we may consider challenges to fulfilling our destiny but knows that none of those challenges are insurmountable. He knew that the Joshua was old but in His opinion, that should not stop Joshua from fulfilling his destiny.

2. No time is ever “too late” with God. If you are ready, He is willing.

3.  God has records of all that we should achieve and we are not successful until we complete our God given tasks.

4. If we are succeeding at other things and failing in our God given tasks, even if the world appears to be applauding us, we have failed.

Please think very deeply and make a firm decision to succeed this year.