My Help

This is the start of a brand new year, new dreams, new goals and inevitably new problems.  Facing a new year is as exciting as it is daunting.  However, with every new thing that this year promises we can trust that we have the same God. He was, is, and will always be faithful. He cannot be anything else.

So often we become intimidated by the things that lie ahead. Perhaps it is a new position at work, or maybe you are welcoming a new child into the world and trying to figure out how to successfully parent that child, maybe you have lofty saving goals and are simultaneously trying to pay off debt. In whatever it is that you are trying to accomplish know that God wants to help you.

Seek God in Prayer for what you need. 1 Peter 3:12 says “The eyes of the lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers.” God never leaves us and he never stops waiting patiently for us to come and talk with him about our life.

Know that God is with you. Deuteronomy 31:8 says “The lord himself goes before and will be with you…” Although 2016 is just beginning God is already there. There is nothing you can come up against, no insurmountable obstacle that you cannot not meet and take on with God’s help

The lord is your keeper. Psalm 54:4 says “Surely God is my help, the lord who sustains me. “When you desire to give up because it feels hard and your goal seems unreachable; or you feel that there is no point in continuing remember, that God is your help.

God is for you. Romans 8:31 says “What shall we say to these things. If God is for us, who can be against us.” In whatever happens, you will come out victorious because God has your back.  God cannot fail and as a long as you are on the side of God you cannot lose because he sits on the throne.

This year will have its own set of challenges but you can face them with confidence because you have all you need in God. For for every problem there is an opportunity for growth and in every troubling circumstance there is a place for God to reveal more of himself to you. When you come up against things you didn’t expect don’t shrink back, you have a God who is bigger than everything and everyone that is behind you. He is your help!