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Beloved: 2015 Banner

As we start a new year, we usually reflect on the past year and set new goals. We set health goals, financial goals, relationship goals, spiritual goals.... the list goes on and on!  One fact we can't escape is that each area of our life affects the other areas: soul (emotions, intellect & will ~ this is where our choices are formed and carried out), physical and spiritual.  It's good to be aware of all three areas as you set your New Year's Resolutions.  Opps, I said the hated phrase, "New Year's Resolutions"!  Hated, because it seems like we set them only to fail, but this year can be different.  Instead of a list of goals that add stress to our lives, what if we each come up with one word that covers all of it for the year?  Let's call it our banner for 2015.

What is your "banner" for 2015?  If you could pick one word as your theme for the year what would it be?  Why?  I will start with mine ~ My word is Beloved, because my heart cry for each of you is that you would know you are God's Beloved daughter/son.  Through a huge spiritual journey that began for me 10 years ago I came to the full realization of what this meant at age 45! Not only was this a spiritual awakening, but through it, it brought a great healing in my emotions and physical body.  I won't go into the details right now, but basically, the words that my mother sung to me as a child became real to me for the first time in my life.  The words went from my mind to my heart and these words were, "Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so, little ones to Him belong, we are weak but He is strong.  Yes, Jesus loves me.  Yes, Jesus loves me.  Yes, Jesus loves me, the Bible tells me so."  I always had known that the Bible told me that there was a God who loved me and who sent His Beloved Son to die for me so the God of the universe could have relationship with me.  Until this revelation, however, these words were only that, words that the Bible told me.  But suddenly, these words came alive, jumped off the pages of the ancient text and became truth deep in my soul!

Up until that point I had lived a happy life and knew that I had a wonderful family and network of friends.  I was living the American dream, or so I thought!  What I discovered was a new depth of life as I realized I was worthy of God's love.  I realized that my bad mistakes from the past did not keep me from God's love.  I finally KNEW that I was loved, redeemed, adopted, accepted, the worthy daughter of the King ~ precious to Him, forgiven, set-free and beautiful!  Now I could be free to enjoy who God created me to be! I would like to share with you one of my favorite verses that has become so dear to my heart, it is in Psalm 139, right in the middle of the Bible - right in the middle of God's love!

Psalm 139 starts out with the wonderful news that God has searched me, He knows me, he knows what I will say before a word is on my tongue!  Then He reminds me that He is with me everywhere I go and that and I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I can rest in His promise that all of God's works are wonderful, not only because He says so, but because I believe it is true. My prayer for you today is that you too, will let these words become truth in your mind and heart and in your life in 2015. I pray that God will reveal your banner to you for this coming year.  

  I now leave you with the powerful Word of God to reflect on today ~ YOU are God's Beloved!  Rejoice!

For you created my inmost being;     you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;     your works are wonderful,     I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you     when I was made in the secret place,     when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body;     all the days ordained for me were written in your book     before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God!     How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them,     they would outnumber the grains of sand—     when I awake, I am still with you.  Psalm 139:13-18

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