New Year… New beginning. Praise God! The last year was very challenging but I am hopeful for the new year. Things may not be like I wanted them to be for this next year, but I will be grateful I have another year to make what is wrong in my life right. I can do it, and so can you.

You and I have brand new beginnings. Do you need to make a change in life? Have you drifted away from God or have you been drawn in closer to Him? Right now, is a great time to reflect on last year, see the mistakes we’ve made and do things different. If we keep on doing the same thing the results we desire will never get here. We will continue to get the same results we got last year.

This is a brand-new year, a new beginning, do you have a dream that has not come to pass yet? Maybe this is the time it will come to pass. Do you know what the Lord has for you to do? Maybe this is the time you need to step out in faith. Do what you know God has called you to do. Be STRONG and be BRAVE and know that you are not strong and brave on your own account but you are strong in the Lord because the Lord is our strength and our salvation, and brave because He has you in the palm of His hand, and greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. That is how I came up with this ministry name. From time to time, I would start to feel overwhelmed. At one time, (a while after my oldest son passed away) my youngest son started having problems. We took him to the DR. and they found he had an aneurism in his head. They scheduled him for brain surgery right away and off we went. Now due to losing my other son I will admit I was afraid (not brave and strong) I put all the faith I had in Jesus and prayed for him to save my son. This was very serious. We found out later that if the Dr hadn’t found that aneurism, Douglas would have died with in 3 months. He had had no symptoms for that so they found it by accident. Ha we know better, they found it because God has a plan for that boy. Well now that man.

Anyway, it was very stressful for me. I felt weak, my faith wasn’t as strong as it was when Gordon died, but I still stood on the faith and hope. While I was at the hospital with Douglas, I got a call from my family, my mom had been sick and she way dying. I needed to get to Colo right away if I wanted to see her alive again but I felt I couldn’t leave Douglas.,. I was so torn. I waited until Douglas got home from the hospital and then headed out for Colorado to be with my mom. I got there in time to be with her when she passed. I was drained, emotionally, physically and everything else. But I got through it. Not because I am strong, but because the strength I have is from the Holy Spirit. I admit I have no strength of my own, but it is all Jesus in me that makes me strong. I am brave because His word says I can do all things through Christ who give me strength. David was strong and brave when he came up against the giant. Because he was not depending on himself but on God. That is where our strength comes from.

So, what do you think? Are you strong and brave? No, not at all but the God who made heaven and earth is and He lives in YOU! Step out in faith, if you fall it’s ok, He has you. He lives in you. And nothing can stop you if you depend on Jesus and not yourself.

Submit to God, resist the Devil and he will flee from you. The devil brings on the giants to destroy all your hopes and dreams, all your plans for your future. Have you ever noticed that when you think things will work out boom, something happens to bring you down.

This is a new year, a new beginning, I know things are not always as we would like them to be but we must learn to make the best out of what we have to work with. Keep a positive attitude and depend on Jesus to lead and guide us. He is the Answer to all our problems.

Thanks for reading and if you need help in this area please e mail me. I will be glad to get back to you! God bless!!