This Year, I’m going to…
This Year, I’m going to…
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Gym/fitness
Manage Stress
Manage Debt
Go back to school
Get a better job
Volunteer
Stats
• Less than 50% of Americans make a New
Years resolution
–75 % make it 1 week
–71 % - 2 weeks
–64 % - 1month
–41% - 6 months
• People who explicitly make resolutions
are 10x more likely to achieve their
goals.
Resolution:
• the act of finding an answer or
solution to a conflict, problem,
etc. : the act of resolving
something
Matthew 6:33 - ESV
“But seek first the kingdom
of God and his
righteousness, and all
these things will be added
to you.”
• Repentance: is the activity of reviewing one's
actions and feeling contrition or regret for
past wrongs. It generally involves a
commitment to personal change and resolving
to live a more responsible and humane life.
Ellen White
• “Repentance includes sorrow for sin and a
turning away from it.” (23 Steps to Christ)
Turning toward Jesus
=
Turning away from Sin
Turning away from Sin
=
Turning toward Jesus
Romans 2:5-8
• 5- But because of your stubbornness and your
unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against
yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his
righteous judgment will be revealed.
• 6 - God “will repay each person according to what
they have done.”
• 7 - To those who by persistence in doing good seek
glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
• 8 - But for those who are self-seeking and who reject
the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and
anger.
Dwight Moody
• “…I also believe a man may be a thief one
moment and a saint the next. I believe a man
may be as vile as hell itself one moment, and
be saved the next.”
Matsuo Basho (1655-1694)
• “Do not seek to follow the
footsteps of the wise. Seek
what they sought.”
Seek God/His kingdom
“But seek first the kingdom
of God and his
righteousness, and all these
things will be added to
you.”