Jan 1
Your Tomorrow
What a beautiful day. I’m sitting here in my home office, in New Hampshire, watching it snow. We have close to three feet on the ground now, with another foot up in the clouds waiting to descend on our heavily forested hillsides. It is days like this that give one time to pause, think about today, ruminate on yesterday and re-envision ourselves for tomorrow. It is a new year, new hopes, and new aspirations. To some, the thought of a new year only means more of the same - ugh! To others, more of the same is not all that bad. To me, a new year, especially at this time, is really good. I need a good, new year. That means change!
To change we have to think and do differently than we have previously thought and done - sounds simple but it is not. Habits of thought are hard to break. To break a habit, we must have a bigger “no” to our old thoughts in our heart than the yes contained in the old habit. This year I am finding my bigger “no” in thinking back five years. Yep- that’s right five years. You see the past five years have flown by like a nano-second. If I am not careful the next five, in “trekian terms” will pass by in warp drive and I will still be the same. At that time I will have had ten years of the same - the last five and the coming five.
So my bigger “no” comes from a huge desire to see the five ten years be significantly better than the last five. When we think in five year terms it makes things seem permanent and less cyclical, and I need that. Perhaps you do as well. What were you doing five years ago - what will you be doing five years from now? Set the tone today, break old thought processes and tomorrow is in your hands. The battle is for our mind and how we see ourselves in God’s plan. With God you cannot fail to change. He made you for such a time as this! Join me, and become what God created you to be.
Blessings,
John Paul
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Thank you for doing this in a way it takes the place for fireside chats that as I understand you stopped doing due to your pending move to Texas. I appreciate you and your ministry and it is good to have someone who thinks outside the box as it were and sees things differently and makes one think ‘Wow I didn’t know that’, or ‘I never quite saw it that way before!’ Thank you and God bless you in every single way and give you great health and wealth so that you can inspire generations to come due to your faithfulness and insight into who God is and how we can find Him. Amen
Just want you to know your message was a confirmation from the Lord to me. The Lord and I have been talking for quite a while on this very subject. “Change”
I knew change needed to be done. I knew GOD was the only one who could make this happen, (along with a willing teachable heart from me). I know it will be hard, but I am willing to be spiritually operated on, Cut out the bad, sew in the good.
God Bless You,
Linn
Profound, simple and true!
“…To break a habit, we must have a bigger “no” to our old thoughts in our heart than the yes contained in the old habit.”
Excellent post, made me think…
Z
Hey John Paul,
Great to see your blog and get inside your head.
On the five year trend idea, I heard Misty Edwards at IHOP/KC say that when she was 20 she made a decision to sit in the prayer room and give God her 20’s, not date, not do the stuff normal 20-year olds would do, fast, etc. What a challenge for me as a 40-something.
Also wanted to get your/others’ thoughts on something that struck me recently as after reading “Angels of Humilty” at IHOP/KC’s website, about praying in the Spirit continually. 70% of our body is made up of water; 70% of the earth is covered by water; and I read once where Cho said that he prayed in the Spirit about 70% of the time. With water being a symbol of the Holy Spirit, is there a connection to our being properly “hydrated” in the Spirit by seeking to pray in tongues (without it becoming a law) continually, much the same if we are not properly hydrated individually we are weak, and if the earth’s ecosystem is upset (less water = drought, there’s also weakness?
Blessings,
Dennis
Below is a link to U-2’s video, “Its A Beautiful Day”. To me it has the prophetic sound on how we need to respond to the New Beginnings that the Lord is calling us to…let this Bless You!
http://www.u2jam.com/view/208/beautiful-day-alternate-edit-/
Great….another blog to read. You know what? This actually spoke to me a lot. Good stuff John Paul.