Your Advantage in 2025

As we enter 2025, what are your hopes, goals, plans, or growth commitments?

Without direction—and commitment to that direction—you’ll go in circles. Busy and active but in circles. Clear intentions—with daily habits—will take you far.

This is most effectively grounded in set-apart time with God each morning, as Psalm 5:3 says, “In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice . . . and [I] wait in expectation.”

What will you do with God’s gift of this year in your life?
Then consider that good plans can meet trouble and hardship. Or disaster may strike. Be prepared for that too.
If you are a true believer, you have an advantage.

You know that in the midst of a storm that seems about to sink you, Jesus is there in the storm and in the “boat” with you.
You know that God is with you even when you “walk through the valley of the shadow of death” (Psalm 23:4).
You know that no matter what happens, “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. / Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea” (Psalm 46:1–2a).

Knowing this, you will survive anything. You will prevail. You will thrive.
May you live each day in abundance and generosity if you abide in Christ.
May you face every challenge with confidence because you are in God’s hands.

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Each year I encouraged people to make an “Annual Growth Commitment,” which combines prayer, God’s grace, and habit to bring solid positive change in one important area of your life. 
If you choose to try it, or continue doing it. CLICK HERE.
Download the PDF, which explains everything, and if you print it, you can cut out the little cards at the bottom.

May God lead you and bless you in 2025.

Art credit: Gerd Altmann|Pixaby