2012 resolutions message january 8, 2012

New Year Resolutions
Typical Track Record
2006: I will read 20 books
2009: I will finish The Pelican Brief
2010: I will read some newspaper articles
2011: I will read at least one article
2012: I will finish the comics section

Jonathan Edwards
(1703-1758)

First Great Awakening

Resolutions

“Being sensible that I am unable
to do anything without God’s
help, I do humbly entreat him by
his grace to enable me to keep
these Resolutions, so far as they
are agreeable to his will, for
Christ’s sake.”
“Remember to read over these
Resolutions once a week. ”

“Aim at nothing and you
will hit it every time!”

Psalm 90:5-6
You sweep men away in the
sleep of death; they are like the
new grass of the morning—
though in the morning it springs
up new, by evening it is dry and
withered.

James 4:14
What is your life? For you are a
mist that appears for a little
time and then vanishes.

Ephesians 5:15-16
Look carefully then how you walk,
not as unwise but as wise, making
the best use of the time,
because the days are evil.

Sunday Mornings
January 15 – February 5

Studies on the Person and Plan of
God from the Book of The Revelation

Sundays at Grace
February 5 – March 13

Ephesians 5:15-16
Look carefully then how you
walk, not as unwise but as
wise, making the best use
of the time, because the days
are evil.

Analyze – ―look carefully‖
Prioritize – ―making the best
use of the time‖

Lay hold of
our time!

24 hours
1,440 minutes
86,400 seconds

Ten Questions to Ask at the Start
of a New Year or on Your Birthday

My resolutions for 2012
(To be read twice each week)
1. I resolve to seek God in all of
life, realizing that only in Him
will I find fullness of joy!

Psalm 16:2
I say to the LORD, ―You are my
Lord; I have no good apart from
you.‖
Psalm 16:8
I have set the LORD always
before me; because he is at
my right hand, I shall not
be shaken.

Psalm 16:11
You make known to me the path of
life; in your presence there
is fullness of joy; at your right hand
are pleasures forevermore.

(Goal for Resolution #1)

Five days each week as part of
my personal worship (as I begin
my day), I will be using one of
two tools:

1. I resolve to seek God in all of
life, realizing that only in Him
will I find the fullness of joy!

2. I resolve to immerse myself in
Scripture, knowing that the
Word of God is the only reliable
foundation for life.

Matthew 7:24-25
Everyone then who hears these
words of mine and does them will
be like a wise man who built his
house on the rock. And the rain
fell, and the floods came, and the
winds blew and beat on that
house, but it did not fall, because
it had been founded on the rock.

Psalm 1:1-2
Blessed is the man who walks
not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but
his delight is in the law of the
LORD, and on his law he
meditates day and night.

Psalm 1:3
He is like a tree planted
by streams of water that yields
its fruit in its season, and
its leaf does not wither. In all
that he does, he prospers.

(Goal for Resolution #2)

Use daily M’Cheyne’s Bible
reading plan

Robert Murray
M'Cheyne
(1813 –1843) was
a minister in the Church
of Scotland for just a
few brief years before
he died at the age of 29
during an epidemic of
typhus.

3. I resolve to pray better and to
pray more.

1 Thessalonians 5:17
Pray without ceasing.

(Goals for Resolution #3)

Use daily a prayer journal that
features a daily reading by
Andrew Murray

Andrew Murray
(1828 –1917) was a
South African writer,
teacher,and Christian
pastor. He was also the
son of a Scottish
missionary.


Read thru E.M. Bounds collection
of books (8) on prayer; 3 chapters
each week

Edward McKendree
Bounds
(1835-1913) was a
lawyer, army chaplain,
and pastor in the
Methodist Episcopal
Church, South. He spent
the last seventeen years
of writing (primarily on
the topic of prayer).

4. I resolve to better shepherd my
children and grandchildren in
their own personal faith journeys.

5. I resolve to better love my wife,
seeking to imitate the example of
Christ’s love for his bride, the
Church.

Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, as
Christ loved the church
and gave himself up for her.

6. I resolve to be more intentional
in sharing my faith.

2 Corinthians 5:20
Therefore, we are
ambassadors for Christ, God
making his appeal through us.


Be more “gospel-centered” in my
prayers … always praying for the
lost!

Be intentional in using the “3:16
Numbers of Hope” tract.

7. I resolve to renew my
commitment as a member of the
elder team to shepherd our church
family with integrity of heart
and skillful hands. I resolve to
engage in those things that will
move me in that direction.

Psalm 78:72
And David shepherded them
with integrity of heart; with
skillful hands he led them.


8. I resolve to better care for my
body, knowing that as a follower
of Christ my body is the temple
of the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Do you not know that your
bodies are temples of the
Holy Spirit, who is in you,
whom you have received from
God? You are not your own; you
were bought at a price. Therefore
honor God with your bodies.


9. I resolve to do my utmost to
keep the above resolutions all by
God’s grace and for His glory!

(I have shared these with you . . .)
Certainly NOT to say,
“Look, I’ve arrived!”
1. To encourage you to do the
same.
2. To ask you to pray for me.

2012 resolutions message january 8, 2012

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