You Can Be Assured That 2007 Will Be Your Best Year

You Can Be Assured That 2007 Will Be Your Best Year

You may be wondering what the New Year will bring your way. Perhaps 2006 was a terrible year - a year of ups and downs... disappointments and setbacks...or trials and testings of the severest kind.

Or maybe it happened to be a very prosperous year - a year of great fulfillment, success, and accomplishment.

No matter what 2007 holds for you - you can confidently count on it being the Best Year of all.

How will that happen? If and only if you make the Lord "the strength of your life."

Psalm 18:2 says - "The LORD is...my strength..."

Psalm 46:1 says - "God is our...strength..."

Psalm 27:1 says - "...the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?"

Psalm 28:8 says - "The LORD is their strength, and He is the saving strength of His anointed."

Isaiah 45:24 says - "Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength..."

O Saint of God? Can you say today that "The LORD is your strength"? Is He your firm and immovable rock - your sure, unchanging, and eternal source of confidence and support?

Is He your source of strength in the midst of the greatest danger or when you are feeling weak and defenseless? How about when you need to exercise grace...perform your duties...withstand your enemies...bear your cross patiently...exhibit strength of mind under the sorest distresses... or simply hold on and out unto the end? His desire for you is to have you feel as safe in His strength as though you had that strength yourself - as though it resided in your own arm.

Having "the LORD" for your strength enables you to inquire in the face of the devil - "...of whom shall I be afraid?" Who or what will you fear - an evil report...a physical infirmity...problems which arise on the job making it very unstable...or a distressful situation that arises in your marriage or family?

"The LORD" is your stronghold. He is the One Who supports you and keeps you alive. Life can be easily crushed by trouble or sorrow. But you have nothing to fear because "the LORD is your strength." He will keep you from fainting, sinking, or dying away.

"The LORD" is the strength of His people. He is the stronghold of their salvation. In Him, they find the strength which produces salvation in their everyday circumstances.

"Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength..." Those who make the Lord their strength can certainly say that He is their support and assistance in doing His will and work...bearing afflictions...withstanding Satan's temptations...opposing all inner corruptions of their heart...and overcoming all foes.

It is when they are able to say - "Surely...in the LORD have I righteousness and strength..." - that they find Him to be "their strength in the time of trouble"(Psalm 37:39). They find Him to be "their arm every morning"(Isaiah 33:2). Even though all other sources of help and strength fail, they find Him to be faithful - "Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me..."(2 Timothy 4:17). They find that they are supernaturally infused with power because of their union with Him - " I can do all things through Christ which strengthened me"(Philippians 4:13). They are furnished for every good work and fortified against every evil one - "Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power..."(Colossians 1:11). They are endued with a high degree of grace and endowed with the might of the spiritual gifts - "That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man"(Ephesians 3:16).