Daily Devotion

 With Pastor Ancel Presnell

“NEW YEAR SPIRITUALUTION”

Are you planning on some changes in the new year? It’s only a few days away. What are your plans for new? Is 2024 already in your rearview mirror? Everyone has memorable moments in the past year Some are good and worthy of reminiscence while others tough, emotional, and all out bad memories to recall. Some of these memories take you back to times of victorious accomplishment and others take you to a place of defeat! 

Some have suffered the loss of loved ones with many being as recent as days and weeks ago. For many, the birth of a new baby has taken place in 2024, and your family is still gleaming with joy over the new addition My point is this, we all have things to look back on in 2024, some are ok to visit, while others need to be left in 2024! 

For many people, a new year ahead will bring hopes of a fresh start with goals such as: weight loss, healthy eating, Financial Health etc. We all have a: “I am going to ______________ in 2025. Some of us will be successful with our new goals and changes while others will fall into the well-known rut known as failure. That rut will come for some by the end of Day 1, or week 1.

Whatever our hopes, aims, goals, and dreams are for 2025, may we prioritize for some “New Year’s Spiritualution’s!” If our plans for needed change do not involve plans for a renewal of our faith, and practices within our faith, we may hit every goal we make, but ultimate failure is imminent. We need a fresh touch from the Lord in our lives. We need more of His word in us, so that more of His word will rule us and come out of us. We need more disciplines in prayer than we do in any other area of our life.

Will your New Year be filled with more priority and attention to being faithful to His church, worship, bible reading, discipleship, prayer, and evangelism? Or will it be filled with more things that take you away from those most needed changes? Now is the time to get your house in order. Now is the time to map out a plan to discipline yourself in the Spiritual areas of your life. Those will always be most beneficial.

1 Timothy 4:7, 8— “⁷ But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. ⁸ For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.”