Comments on: Blessed New Year! http://lifestream.org/blog/2010/01/01/blessed-new-year/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:31:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Don F. http://lifestream.org/blog/2010/01/01/blessed-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-30817 Don F. Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:08:52 +0000 http://lifestream.org/blog/?p=1034#comment-30817 Happy New Years to everyone and God bless you all with the love and wonder of his Son Jesus Christ. May this year bring you the treasures that truly count. LOVE that flowed down the cheeks of Father as he watched his son suffer for us. PEACE that comes when you know that your care is in the hands of a loving Creator. JOY that comes when God's love fills your heart and flows out to touch others. Happy New Years to everyone and God bless you all with the love and wonder of his Son Jesus Christ. May this year bring you the treasures that truly count. LOVE that flowed down the cheeks of Father as he watched his son suffer for us. PEACE that comes when you know that your care is in the hands of a loving Creator. JOY that comes when God’s love fills your heart and flows out to touch others.

]]> By: Sue http://lifestream.org/blog/2010/01/01/blessed-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-30816 Sue Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:54:06 +0000 http://lifestream.org/blog/?p=1034#comment-30816 Funny. For me right now, asking God what he is doing in my life to make himself more real to me is wondering why it feels like he is a million miles away and maybe not even there at all. A very strange experience. But sometimes, on the faith journey, I guess these seasons come. And perhaps faith really comes to the fore here - to sit in the numbness of feeling like God does not even exist for me right now, asking him how he is making himself more real :) I had a lovely New Year's Eve, spent with a good friend and a good friend of hers. We watched the rain fall and it felt like some sort of a blessing. A washing away of the old and a bringing in of the new, all fresh. A fresh new decade. May we all see the fruit borne of the past decade, which has been very difficult in many ways. Happy New Year, Wayne! Funny. For me right now, asking God what he is doing in my life to make himself more real to me is wondering why it feels like he is a million miles away and maybe not even there at all.

A very strange experience. But sometimes, on the faith journey, I guess these seasons come. And perhaps faith really comes to the fore here – to sit in the numbness of feeling like God does not even exist for me right now, asking him how he is making himself more real :)

I had a lovely New Year’s Eve, spent with a good friend and a good friend of hers. We watched the rain fall and it felt like some sort of a blessing. A washing away of the old and a bringing in of the new, all fresh. A fresh new decade.

May we all see the fruit borne of the past decade, which has been very difficult in many ways. Happy New Year, Wayne!

]]> By: Kimberly Simpkins http://lifestream.org/blog/2010/01/01/blessed-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-30815 Kimberly Simpkins Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:38:49 +0000 http://lifestream.org/blog/?p=1034#comment-30815 Hi, Wayne... This is my first post to your blog, but we've had a couple email exchanges in the past month or so. :) Just wanted to let you know that your site and articles have been such a tremendous blessing to me in the past several months. And this post is right on target for where I'm at in my walk with the Lord right now. Thank you, and many blessings! Hi, Wayne…

This is my first post to your blog, but we’ve had a couple email exchanges in the past month or so. :) Just wanted to let you know that your site and articles have been such a tremendous blessing to me in the past several months. And this post is right on target for where I’m at in my walk with the Lord right now. Thank you, and many blessings!

]]> By: Charles Graham http://lifestream.org/blog/2010/01/01/blessed-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-30814 Charles Graham Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:29:22 +0000 http://lifestream.org/blog/?p=1034#comment-30814 I used to be big on New Year celebrations. God's people bringing in the New Year with praise and worship and a new sense of direction. Now I realize that maybe I was trying to impress him into believing that I was completely sold out. How foolish, he knew what was in me already. Now we get together with friends, play games and fellowship over food and conversation. A lot has changed in the last few years. To be free in his love is truly joy unspeakable and full of his glory. May we all experience the fullness of his love and grace on a daily basis. Knowing that wherever we are he is right there in the mess with us. Charles I used to be big on New Year celebrations. God’s people bringing in the New Year with praise and worship and a new sense of direction. Now I realize that maybe I was trying to impress him into believing that I was completely sold out. How foolish, he knew what was in me already.

Now we get together with friends, play games and fellowship over food and conversation. A lot has changed in the last few years. To be free in his love is truly joy unspeakable and full of his glory.

May we all experience the fullness of his love and grace on a daily basis. Knowing that wherever we are he is right there in the mess with us.

Charles

]]> By: Ian Stapleton http://lifestream.org/blog/2010/01/01/blessed-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-30813 Ian Stapleton Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:27:02 +0000 http://lifestream.org/blog/?p=1034#comment-30813 We only made it to 11pm. We are the same, not that big on new years celebrations. But yes as we know Him more His fruit is bore in us more. After all isn't that why we have been chosen 'that we bear much fruit and that it should remain' and through this the Father is glorified. Have a great new year and blessed new year everybody, full of grace and truth!! Ian We only made it to 11pm. We are the same, not that big on new years celebrations. But yes as we know Him more His fruit is bore in us more. After all isn’t that why we have been chosen ‘that we bear much fruit and that it should remain’ and through this the Father is glorified.

Have a great new year and blessed new year everybody, full of grace and truth!!
Ian

]]> By: Lindsey http://lifestream.org/blog/2010/01/01/blessed-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-30812 Lindsey Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:18:34 +0000 http://lifestream.org/blog/?p=1034#comment-30812 Actually, I was thinking how much more sacred New Years was for me than Christmas. It's a reminder of what He has done, and I love celebrating that. Love your thoughts about sanctification not being the goal, but the fruit. It kind of gives me an answer to something that was bugging me, even last night. I heard on a Christian radio station about how important it was to "get plugged in" and find "Accountability partners" otherwise one might become "spiritually lazy". I just had to turn it off. That so much implied that we have to constantly work at producing the results. Yuck! Thats just wrong! I was on my way to spend New Years with my not so spiritually in-tuned cousins and it didnt escape my attention that a few years ago, (after being saved and wanting to completely accept Christ, also accepted some pretty dogmatic views) I would have shunned the visit, or spent the whole time "pointing to Jesus." I'm glad I didnt. I had a pretty good time with them just as they were, and me just as I was (and that is NOT ultra "spiritual" all the time!) Who knows? Maybe that could lead to some real conversations in the new year. Hope everyone has a wonderful day! Lindsey Actually, I was thinking how much more sacred New Years was for me than Christmas. It’s a reminder of what He has done, and I love celebrating that.
Love your thoughts about sanctification not being the goal, but the fruit. It kind of gives me an answer to something that was bugging me, even last night. I heard on a Christian radio station about how important it was to “get plugged in” and find “Accountability partners” otherwise one might become “spiritually lazy”. I just had to turn it off. That so much implied that we have to constantly work at producing the results. Yuck! Thats just wrong!
I was on my way to spend New Years with my not so spiritually in-tuned cousins and it didnt escape my attention that a few years ago, (after being saved and wanting to completely accept Christ, also accepted some pretty dogmatic views) I would have shunned the visit, or spent the whole time “pointing to Jesus.” I’m glad I didnt. I had a pretty good time with them just as they were, and me just as I was (and that is NOT ultra “spiritual” all the time!) Who knows? Maybe that could lead to some real conversations in the new year.
Hope everyone has a wonderful day!
Lindsey

]]> By: Angela Davenport http://lifestream.org/blog/2010/01/01/blessed-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-30811 Angela Davenport Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:13:53 +0000 http://lifestream.org/blog/?p=1034#comment-30811 Hey Wayne, Thanks so much for sharing, I am so moved by this blog that I reposted part of it on my facebook page. I hope you don't mind. I thought some of my friends might need to be set free from resolutions! I am going to relax and ask God what He is doing to make his life more real in me. Hoping I am transformed beyond recognition this year! Thanks again! Happy New Year to you and your family! Angela Hey Wayne,

Thanks so much for sharing, I am so moved by this blog that I reposted part of it on my facebook page. I hope you don’t mind. I thought some of my friends might need to be set free from resolutions! I am going to relax and ask God what He is doing to make his life more real in me. Hoping I am transformed beyond recognition this year!

Thanks again! Happy New Year to you and your family!

Angela

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