Intentional ~~ Happy New Year!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

As I think about the end of 2013 

and the start of 2014 

one word comes to mind...

intentional.

I'm not really doing One Word

for 2014

since I did so very poorly with it in 

2013.

But if I were

my word would be 

intentional.

You see that is the way I want to live my life in 2014.

With intent.

On purpose.

Disciplined.

I don't know if it was the health challenges I faced in 2013,

or just my general lack of energy,

but something kept me from living as

intentional as I would of liked.

It seems that lots of things slipped through the cracks

if you will.

I don't want that to happen anymore.

So this year

I want to live life intentional.

I do have a few things that are on my list

to do this year

that has been different from last.

I will be doing a 

page on them to refer back to

in my Project Life this year,

and I'm gonna be intentional

about these things.

I'd like to share with you the verse the

LORD has laid on my heart for the start 

of the year.

I always start with a verse every January 1st 

to memorize and it always ends up being 

the verse that stays with me all year.

I memorize others along the way,

but the first one is always the one 

that I quote first at night as I am drifting

off to sleep after family prayers.

It has been a very important verse

indeed over the years,

so I have learned to be very purposeful

in my choosing.

I let the LORD help me always.

And this year,

I thought it would be out of 1 John.

I wrote down three verses.

And then couldn't decide.

Thought I knew,

but just wasn't sure.

And then a verse I had memorized in 

previous years kept popping up.

And so, I decided that was the one

the LORD wanted me to start with

for this year.

But since I had already memorized it,

I thought that perhaps

I'd memorize it in another version.

But Sunday,

our Pastor quoted this verse

from the KJV when it was on 

the screen in another version.

Then he ended his message there,

 and he still had

two points left!

I really felt the LORD reassuring me

that I was to keep it in the KJV

I had already memorized it in.

Yes I complicate things.

Its a gift.

So my first verse for the year is:

Isaiah 26:3

"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace

whose mind is stayed on thee;

because he trusteth in Thee."

This verse has everything to do with being intentional

as well.

I love that.

Love.that.

If I keep my mind stayed on the LORD,

He will keep me in perfect peace.

That is a beautiful scripture,

and what will this mean?

That I am trusting in Him.

I can think of nothing better

to set my heart on 

at the beginning of the year.

I hope your start to this new year has been spent

spending time with the Father

and asking Him to guide you through 

everything you will face in 2014

the good and the bad.

He is there and He loves you so!!!

Thank you for visiting me,

encouraging me 

and 

loving me.

In His Name,

Have a Blessed and Beautiful Day ~~