MAXIMIZE YOUR NEW YEAR // Sunday, December 29, 2024 // Jeff Hines, Lead Pastor

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Sunday, December 29, 2024

 

Maximize Your New Year

 

Healthy People Grow

Growing People Change

Changed People, Change People

 

Proverbs 17: 24 (NASB)

    Wisdom is in the presence of one who has understanding, But the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

 

Steps for having a fruitful New Year:

 

  1. Take responsibility for your life

 

Proverbs 22:13 (NASB)

The lazy one says, “There is a lion outside; I will be killed in the streets!”

 

Galatians 6: 5 (NASB)

  For each one will bear his own load.

 

  1. Have confidence that you can grow / mature.

 

Ephesians 2: 10 (NLT)

   For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

 

  1. Clarify your priorities.

 

Proverbs 34: 3 & 4 (NLT)

   …’The ear tests the words it hears just as the mouth distinguishes between foods.’
   4 So let us discern for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.

 

1 Corinthians 10: 23 (NASB)

   All things are permitted, but not all things are of benefit. All things are permitted, but not all things build people up.

 

  1. Act now.

 

Ecclesiastes 11: 4 (NASB)

  One who watches the wind will not sow and one who looks at the clouds will not harvest.

 

Personal Development Goals

 

Luke 2: 52 (ESV)

    Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.

 

  1. Intellectual: What do I want to learn?

 

Probers 19: 8 (ESV)

   Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.

 

  1. Physical: What will improve my health?

 

Proverbs 17: 22 (ESV)

   A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

 

  1. Spiritual: What will deepen my relationship with God?

 

2 Peter 3: 18 (ESV)

   …grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

 

  1. Social: What will my ministry be to others?

 

1 Peter 4: 10 (ESV)

   …each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace.

 

Ephesians 6: 10 (ESV)

   Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.