This time every year, you can’t help but sit back and reflect on the last year as it comes to an end. It may have felt like the year flew by quickly or it may have felt that it would never end. It may have been one of the best years of your life and you never want to forget it. Or maybe it was a year filled with many difficult moments and you can’t wait to start a new year. However your year has been, the good news is that there is another year and a new start.

2016 will begin in a few days. You have a new start. Will you continue being the person you were in 2015? What will you change this next year? Where is your relationship with Jesus? How do you want to grow? Before 2016 arrives, make goals. Dream. Believe in the BIG things God has for you this next year. Take time to pray and listen to what God may be trying to tell you. We all have made mistakes and will probably continue to make mistakes. But the wonderful thing is that God offers forgiveness and grace. We can go to Him about anything and He offers a new start. A new beginning. A new life.

So, for this next year, above everything else, remember these words, declare them, and say them out loud:

(Speak this over yourself)
“I am deeply loved,
divinely appointed,
abundantly equipped,
and profoundly cherished by God.
No enemy plan, scheme or obstacle can
keep me from God’s highest and best
will for me. As I follow the voice of my Savior,
I see the invisible, accomplish the impossible,
and love the unlovable.
I am a living-breathing miracle because
Jesus Christ lives in me!
Amen.”

-Susie Larson

Happy near year!