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Why have a Word for the Year?

Why have a Word for the Year?

Why?

I’m sure you’ve heard the suggestion to pick a word for the year. But why have a word for the year?

The more we read the bible, the better understanding we have of God’s will, for how we should live. Our life should be a reflection of God, and the light of Jesus should be able to shine through us. This can’t happen if we settle for where we are in life.

God made us who we are, with gifts and abilities specifically for us. Sometimes we need to use tricks like a word for the year to help us focus on the person that God has called us to be.  

My Word

I couldn’t pick just one word, so I picked a phrase for the year, A gentle and quiet spirit. I took this phrase from I Peter 3:4. This is my word for the year because it helps me focus on what I believe God has called me to improve. Not change, but improve.

Remember, God made you who He wants you to be. You need to continue the work that He started in you, don’t change it. Don’t change who you are, let God continue to transform you.

1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:1-2 (NKJV)

How to pick your word

  1. Pray, asking God to lay on your heart the area He wants you to focus on. Matthew 6:6
  2. Reflex and Choose, look back at the last month, 3 months, or even year. List areas in your life that you would like to improve, and then choose your word of the year. Psalm 32:5
  3. Search the bible, find a verse that relates to your word for the year. II Timothy 3:16

Run the Race

Now that you picked your word for the year, it’s time to continue to run the race.

1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every wight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrew 12:1-2

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