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Ending One Year. Entering a New One.

As one year closes and another begins, there are a few things I hold deeply important.

I do my best to live by what I’m about to share. I don’t always get it right, and there are times I fall short, but my heart is always set on striving to live this way.

 

Before the year ends:

• If I believe I’ve offended someone, I do my best to make it right.
   

• I give my greatest gifts at the close of the year and the beginning of the next.
   

• I look for someone who is struggling and extend unexpected generosity.

 

 

Going Into the New Year:

1. Think less of yourself.

“He must increase, but I must decrease.” — John 3:30 (KJV)

2. Think more of others.

“Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.” — Galatians 6:2 (KJV)

3. Focus on Christ within you, not circumstances around you.

“Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” — 1 John 4:4 (KJV)

4. Be intentional about who you’re connected to.

“Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.” — Proverbs 3:27 (KJV)

5. Remember, everyone is not your assignment.

6. You cannot help someone who refuses to disconnect from the wrong people.

7. You cannot help someone who does not respect achievers.

8. You cannot help someone who believes you are unqualified.

9. You cannot help someone who wants what you have, but rejects your counsel.

10. You cannot help someone who believes you are the problem.

11. You cannot help someone who has never tasted the pain of being wrong.

 

Never Forget This:

• Your success is directly tied to the quality of people you are connected to.

When God wants to bless you, He often sends a person into your life.
When Satan wants to disrupt you, he often sends a person as well.

So never allow people into your life without understanding their agenda.
Know where they came from and why they want access to you.

If someone enters your life and your life begins to decline, they were not sent by God.

 

People come into your life for seasons, reasons, or a lifetime.

Celebrate those who walk the journey with you.
And for the others:

• When a season ends. let them go.
   

• When a reason is fulfilled, move forward.

Many things in life have expiration dates, including some relationships.

 

Let this new year be one where past mistakes are not repeated.
A year where forgiveness has been both received and given.

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2026 is the year of fulfillment.

The year we see what God promised come to pass.
The year we see our families and friends serving God.
The year of breakthrough and blessing.

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
— Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV)