A new year...

As I've started this year I've been yearning and furiously praying, hoping,and believing (especially after a challenging word from friends, family and pastors)for alot from this year. I am believing that my Father will supply my needs, knows the desires of my heart and has led me to have these desires... And I want to say at the beginning of this year... I am thanking God for every need he has supplied already. I am going to speak into words my belief that he will continue to bless me -- meet my needs above and beyond what I deserve. He wasn't surprised by my earnest requests and He has already put into place the things He needs to happen to supply for me. And I just want to thank Him already for his blessings he has done for me, and is doing, and will do for me...

As I was praying tonight and searching scriptures for more words to strengthen my faith I decided to check out a different translation (after reading some verses from it on another friends blog.) May it encourage each of you, as it did me, as you begin this new year, and consider the year ahead of you.

1 Peter 1:17-19 (The Message)

17You call out to God for help and he helps—he's a good Father that way. But don't forget, he's also a responsible Father, and won't let you get by with sloppy living.

18-21Your life is a journey you must travel with a deep consciousness of God. It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in. He paid with Christ's sacred blood, you know. He died like an unblemished, sacrificial lamb. And this was no afterthought. Even though it has only lately—at the end of the ages—become public knowledge, God always knew he was going to do this for you. It's because of this sacrificed Messiah, whom God then raised from the dead and glorified, that you trust God, that you know you have a future in God.