Your Best Year Yet

Your Best Year Yet!

[Pro 4:18 NASB95]

· 2024 has been one of my best years. At the same time, dear friends in my life have had one of their most challenging years.

· Whichever the case may be in your life, God says that our best days are still ahead of us. This is not just humanistic positivism but solid Bible fact! Consider:

o [Psa 27:13 NASB95]

o [Rom 8:18 NASB95]

o [Phl 1:19-20 NASB95]

o [Rom 8:26-28 NASB95]

o [Jer 29:11 NASB95]

· Through triumphs or tragedies, wins or losses, laughter or tears, your best days are just ahead of you.

How can Proverbs 4:18 help you to have your best year yet?

Here are two ways you can have your best year yet.

I. Focus on choices.

a. ISBE: The “path” indicates conduct & inward life purpose OR choices you make. Compare to the next verse: [Pro 4:19 NASB95]

b. Your life is a series of choices. God expects us to choose His way. [Deu 30:19-20 NASB95]

c. Choices involve

i. Love God

ii. Love people

iii. Love yourself

d. Choices include

i. What you think

ii. What you do

iii. How you feel

e. Choose to be like Jesus. He did all these things.

i. Pray, read, engage, fast, give.

ii. Engage in church, be purposeful about relationships, forgive, serve.

Rest, forgive yourself, focus on God’s purpose for your life, believe you are loved and have value for being created by God in His image.

II. Expect positive outcomes.

a. Eerdmans: assurance of the success, happiness, and wellbeing which the pursuit of wisdom will bring to those who adhere to its doctrines.

b. God wants us to expect that will get better.

c. 4 Faith Principles – Woman with the issue of blood – [Mar 5:25-34 NASB95]

i. Say what you believe – speak it and write it down

ii. Act like God is going to honor His Word – start making steps.

iii. See yourself with what God is doing – One way is to get control of your mind. Use your anointed imagination. Second way is step into what God is giving to you (resist the grasshopper complex).

iv. Testify about the good things God has done in your life. Tell people about what God had done and is doing your life.

d. Philippians 1:18-21 MSG… And I’m going to keep that celebration going because I know how it’s going to turn out. Through your faithful prayers and the generous response of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, everything he wants to do in and through me will be done. I can hardly wait to continue on my course. I don’t expect to be embarrassed in the least. On the contrary, everything happening to me in this jail only serves to make Christ more accurately known, regardless of whether I live or die. They didn’t shut me up; they gave me a platform! Alive, I’m Christ’s messenger; dead, I’m his prize. Life versus even more life! I can’t lose.

e. Keep the celebration going!

God wants you to know that as you pursue Him, your best days are ahead of you.