Another Year Another One Word
I was
thinking to myself on January 2, 2017 that this past year has been hard for me
and I feel that it has been hard for many other people. I lost a couple of people I cared about for
the first time and both of them were my relatives. I’ve seen on the news about so many
celebrities passing away as well as so much terror and destruction happening in
the world. With all that and my own
problems I found it hard to look at the positives in life.
My one word
for 2016 was ‘Rejoice.’ When I came to
that word from God at the end of the previous year I didn’t think that
everything would be wonderful. I felt I needed
to rejoice in all that came up in my life.
Honestly, I didn’t do a very good job at that. I started off in the new year feeling pumped
and ready to look at things positively.
I had a new job lined up and thought things would be alright, but then
my Nanny passed away and my job didn’t work out and I ended up feeling
depressed again.
I quickly
forgot my word rejoice as the months
went by. I remembered it every so often;
for example, when we received a new car I felt so blessed that it came not long
after our car had stop working. I felt
like everything was looking up, but then I started to feel down again about my
life. I felt that I was a disappointment
and had let myself down by not rejoicing during the hard times.
It wasn’t
until recently that my husband helped me realize that I may not have been
rejoicing when hard things came up, but that I was rejoicing in the day to day
things. I realize he was right as I
rejoiced daily for my husband as I love him so much and really appreciated
him. I also rejoiced quite often about
where we lived and how great our place is.
I decided that with five days left of the year, I would intentionally
rejoice in whatever came up during that time.
On the
previous Wednesday, I was making yam fries while my hubby was taking the
recycling out when I heard from God again about what my one word would be for
2017. I had thought about Conqueror, but remembered I had used
that word two years ago, so I continued to think and listen when I heard the
word Warrior. I knew right away that this was my one word
for the coming year.
When my
hubby came back I told him my word would be Warrior
and he completely agreed that was the word for me. I knew it was from God and not me because it
completely changed how I felt about myself.
My posture completely changed and I stood straight up instead of
slouched. I normally saw myself as a weak
and defenseless little girl. I felt like
I could never do anything right. With
the word Warrior, I saw myself as a
fighter; as someone that didn’t let things get her down.
It opened my
eyes as to how I’ve been acting as well as how I’ve been treating myself. I should admit, I’ve been having the ‘poor me’
syndrome for way too long. I may have
reason to feel this way, but it’s only kept me in the victim mentality instead
of the victor mentality. I felt sorry
for myself and couldn’t get past my pain and hurt from before. I focused on myself whenever something went
wrong, as I felt it was always my fault.
I have been
fighting against myself my whole life and I’ve just realized that why do I need to fight against myself when I
can fight for myself? When I fight
for myself I can also fight for others and be the warrior that God knows that I
can be. It truly amazed me how one word
could transform me so much. I can
honestly say that I am excited for 2017.
I think God brought this word to me just before the new year so that I
could be encouraged.
I know it
will be easy for me to have my old behaviours come back in, but this year I’m
going to fight my hardest to break those destructive strongholds in my
life. I don’t imagine life is going to
get any easier for myself or for others this year. I hope you know that there is a warrior in
each of us, you just have to fight to bring that side out of you. God put that there to help you see that there
is still hope.
Patricia
<3 J
1 Timothy
6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold
of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good
confession in the presence of many witnesses.
Here’s
a song about being not afraid or not being along and be not ashamed, as our
Lord is bringing us home. Remember that
He is strong enough to save us and Himself.
“Be Not Afraid” by Lost and Found
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1XFdFb1FyQ&list=PL3whQX319DaB37iB8NZpJe206iSdpe3kc&index=168
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