Resolutions For A New Year

Resolutions for A New Year

On new years be sure to raise your left leg so you'll start the New Year on the right foot!

My New Year's resolution is to help all my friends gain ten pounds so I look skinnier.

My resolution was to read more so I put the subtitles on my tv.

I would resolve to become a vegan but that would be a missed steak.

Resolutions 2 varieties: To do something, or not do something.

What do you learn from resolutions? That you can not keep them!

We joke about it! We laugh about it. When we make them we rarely really commit to them.

Resolutions are something we want to do but usually do not put the effort to them long.

Make a “real” commitment and purpose to truly have a closer walk this next year!

As the new year is coming, I want to encourage you to have a closer walk with Christ and to make not just one but a few resolutions today to step up your game in your Christian walk!

These are probably things we should be doing anyway so they are not new but good reminders to be doing anyway.

If you are not saved - the most important is to find out how to be saved first or the rest doesn’t really matter - trust in Jesus!

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Luke 19:9,10 (Seek and save that which was lost)

9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Revelation 3:20

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

John 14:6 (I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life!)

6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Commit to Repent daily (Mortification of Sin - be intentional to repent - kill sin or sin kills you - call on Jesus and confess to Him, as it may be impossible with His help)

1 John 1:8-10 (we deceive ourselves if we say we have no sin and we call Jesus a liar)

8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.

Luke 13 1-5 (repent or ye shall all likewise perish)

1 Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? 3 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. 4 Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”

Romans 8:13 (sin kills - Spirit brings life)

13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

Collosians 3:5-10 (Mortify sin)

5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Commit to Read His Word - Bible (Daily or at least Weekly)

2 Timothy 2:15 (study to show yourself approved)

15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

Hebrews 4:12 (The Word of God is quick and powerful)