Having Faith for the New Year

        God always knows what I need to start a new year off right. I was looking back at the entry that I wrote last Jan. on New Year's Day and I can see a theme going on. The phase and word that I felt like I needed to learn more about was "Speaking the Truth in Love" and the word was "Truth". As I look back now, it wasn't like I planned it at all. The year had all sorts of craziness going on in it for me personally and then my family and friends that brought a lot on me too. There were some moments that I could tell that I was speaking the truth in Love to other people or at least trying to but as I look back, I see more that God was trying to speak His Truth in Love to me.
          I spent a lot of time "alone" this year or with a few friends here and there. I had place whatsoever to spend time with big groups of people. That's just not me. I spent a lot more time doing Bible studies that had to do with breaking free and having room to breathe plus how to run a home. I had some tough times that I just had to let God speak over me like when my grandma passed away. I took a couple of trips so I could hear God and have fun. Get connected deep with friends again. In all of those things, I really believe that that was God speaking his Truth in Love to me. About who I really am in Him. It was growing from the inside to the outside.
           God spoke to me through losing a job because He knew I was better then that and had more then they wanted me to offer. He really hit me hard with the whole money situation. Trusting in Him and not money or worldly things. I'm trying to get that built up again but not as worried as I was. God just showed me who He was this year by Loving and taking care of me. He spoke HIs Truth hard at times but He was still there to love on me.
           Now taking what I learned from this past year onto the next year and learning about my new word, which is "Faith" will be interesting. This past Sunday I was home and went to church with my parents on my birthday and God really hit me with the word "Faith" because of the things I have going on or what to happen during the next year. Here are some quotes about "Faith" that my preacher said:

"It takes "faith" to leave a legacy."

"Worry should produce prayer." 

"Faith is not a verb. It is a hard thing that you need to hold on too."

"It takes a strong person to follow God, but an easy person to follow the world." 

"If God gives us faith to move a mountain, we have to use it, even when it is the 
littlest of faith." 

"Because of your friend's faith, you have accomplished something big." 

"Have to renew your Faith every morning/everyday."     

           These are the phases and "faith" is the word I'm going to live on in 2016. I have a lot of big plans for my life so I'm having faith that God will lead me to them and/or provide for them. One of them is for me to get better at the job I am at now and be content with that so I can move on with other areas of my life. I guess you could say that my phase for 2016 is: "Have Faith and be Content." I want to challenge everyone that is reading this to just have faith this coming year. Just see what big or even little things God can do for you when you have faith as big as a mustard seed. See how content you can be with yourself. I might have a lot of things in mind for this year but I am looking forwards to what God is planning for me this year.
          I also was and still am a little anxious about the new year ahead of me but having faith that God knows what He is doing.  I can tell you the day after my birthday and after I heard the preacher's message, I was in tears because I was just so anxious and overwhelmed. I have all these great things planned but yet how do I handle them myself. The answer is: "I don't so I need to have faith in God for everything." It is hard when you are a grown up and have your birthday in the middle of Christmas and New Year's. You were so excited when you were a child because you get more presents but for me as I grow up and already when I hate changes to start with. I turn older 5 days before another year comes into play. Not only am I trying to be another year older but I'm also trying to make a whole year different from the last year.
             For a person with the ability to get anxious and have anxiety and now that it exist now. It isn't the easiest thing to realize and deal with but I just have to remember that God has my back in all of this. He is a year or million of years ahead of me so He knows what will happen and as it all taken care of for me.