You can't go back and start 2025 again ... but you can hit the re-start and make the end of this year the start of a great year. Christmas is proof of God's desire for your success.
The promise and hope of Christmas is so often covered up by the distractions and chaos of a turbulent world and the crazy, well-meaning attempt to finish everything you started this year by the end of December. The daily grind can exhaust us. There's always more to do. But God's heart is for your life to have significance and success.
Success is simply defined as fully completing your personal design. To capture the why of your creation. And, the enemy wants to stop that. You are in a fight for your heart.
Jesus won the victory between the two kingdoms at war in this world. The nature of each is that Jesus is always for you—he’s your savior, healer, friend, and Lord. The enemy, Satan, is always against you—he is always a liar, vulgar, and negative.
You are in a fight for your heart. When your heart is right, everything becomes clearer. Jesus came to clear the chaos. To reform our hearts and reconnect us with the Father.
So don't use the last week of December just to finish 2025 - use it to prayerfully launch 2026!
Here are seven words from the Lord that are power points for launching 2026 with strength! These are action steps that will put you on target to finish strong and launch strong.
Take time to go back and read or listen to some of the most impacting words you heard or read this year. Get them back into your heart. This is your why.
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“Put on your new nature and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him.” Colossians 3:10 NLT.
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“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows].” John 10:10
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“Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.” Prov 4:23
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“And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.” PHIL 4:8
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“Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.” Psalm 119:11
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“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.” Philippians 3:12
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“I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified.” 1 Cor. 9:27
We can look back over our year and think of what we could have done - or we can look toward next year and make it truly new in Christ. Looking back can give us perspective, but looking forward will give us energy.
Do what you know is the right thing to do. Get it in your heart... and daily pray over your work, your family, and your heart. With the intent that 2026 will launch strong.
Cutting away the negative receptors in your heart is the way champions are built.
Invest a few minutes every day for the next week and watch a fresh mindset develop that will bring you energy for the launch of next year!
