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Closing out the Year

KATHY GABLER—As you look back and close out the year, you may be one of those folks who kept a daily journal and accounting of the details of life. Or, your accounting may simply be memories highlighted for the moment or forever, but all of us have matters that mattered this year as we laid our heads down each night and then awoke to face them again the next morning. There is no closing the books, no relief, on unresolved matters whether they concern healing or relationships or circumstances or finances. Even if we don’t note them in a journal or speak of them, still they sit in the silence of the night and trouble our hearts. That’s the reason that we, like David in Psalm 56, must lean into our God, the Great Accountant who can and will balance the books and bring us to peace of mind. “You’ve kept track of my every toss and turn through the sleepless nights, Each tear entered in your ledger, each ache written in your book.” Psa 56:8 (MSG). Remembering He is there and aware and that He will take action in our behalf, we can trust Him by breathing out a grateful sigh over 2025 and breathing in hope for 2026.


Start a Spiritual History

Start your own spiritual history. Lack or infirmity may be just about all the generational history you have. You be the one to break the cycle. You be the one who refuses to embrace that old history. Matt.16:19-”whatever you bind on earth.” It has already been done in the heavenlies. Start walking and talking it on the earth. Eph.1:19-20, TPT — “I pray that you will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of God’s power made available to you through faith. Then your lives will be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through you! This is the mighty power  20  that was released when God raised Christ from the dead and exalted him to the place of highest honor and supreme authority in the heavenly realm!”


The Next Step–Study the Bible

Declaration 1 (Part 2)— THIS IS THE YEAR TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP.  (d.) This is the year to study things in the Bible you have never studied before. Buy books and software.  e.) This is the year to take the necessary step in the direction of health and nutrition.  f.) This is the year to set aside a daily, designated time for prayer and devotion. Buy a daily journal.  g.) This is the year for some to take the step into leadership.  (Second segment from 2018 Declarations)

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