It doesn’t have to be fair for God to do something remarkable. In fact, when it’s not fair, when you’re the underdog, when life has tried to stop you, that’s when God will show out the most.

The enemy wouldn’t have wasted so much time and energy on you if there wasn’t something amazing in front of you. Don’t complain about what didn’t work out. God is still working. He’ll make up for what was unfair. He’ll pay you back for the wrongs.

The scripture says, “Stand still, and you will see the deliverance of the Lord.” Keep doing the right thing, honoring God, and He’ll take care of what’s stopping you. He’ll move people out of the way; He’ll silence the opposition.

God is counting on us to let our light shine. What you’ve been through will help somebody else get through it. Be on the lookout for who you can encourage.

If you’ll be grateful where you are, then God can get you to where you want to be. Go through the day with expectancy; that’s how you have continual joy. When you have joy, you have the strength you need to achieve your dreams.

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God is not limited by what you don’t have. He’s not intimidated by how big the opposition is, by how bad the medical report looks, by what the financial statement says.

“Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.” – Proverbs 16:3

God said He always causes you to triumph. It may not turn out the way you thought or on your timetable, but God’s ways are better than our ways.

Those things you’re dreaming about, the desires God’s put in your heart that seem too far out, God wouldn’t have given you that dream and not made a way to bring it to pass. It’s already in your future.

Let’s humbly enter 2021 with hope in our hearts and faith in our spirits.

If you can trust Jesus with your eternity, why not start by trusting him with your 2021?

If you want to know what you’re going to be like five years from now, listen to what you’re saying about yourself. Don’t use your words to describe the situation; use your words to change the situation.

Sometimes before it gets brighter, it gets darker. Before we see more than enough, we go through a season of not enough. There are times the good has to come to an end to make room for the best.

What brings us to tears, will lead us to grace. Our pain is never wasted.

I declare this will be a year of God’s favor: freedom from every bad habit, recovery from everything that was lost. I declare that you will experience new happiness, new fulfillment. I declare that you are blessed.

Don’t get talked out of doing the right thing. Keep honoring God, keep giving, keep taking the high road, keep being good to people. You’re storing up blessings, storing up mercy, storing up favor.

When you make decisions that honor God, when you’re generous, when you’re faithful, your life is not only going to be more rewarding, more fulfilling, but that faithfulness and obedience is being credited to your children, to future generations.

Let’s start passing down good things. Let’s live generously. Let’s make it easier for those that come after us. Let’s break any generational curse and start a generational blessing.

Amen.