LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FUTURE 12-29-24
VIDEO THOUGHTS ON THE FUTHER
We find ourselves wondering just what 2025 will be like. Dont worry, Yahweh has everything figured out. Its up to us to move forward looking into the days ahead. Theres a reason the car windshield is bigger than the rearview mirror. This new year of our Lord 2025 is our year to act, to move forward and not to look back.
Luke 17:32 Remember what happened to Lot's wife!
33 If you grasp and cling to life on your terms, you'll lose it, but if you let that life go, you'll get life on God's terms. MSG
Phil 3:13 Friends, don't get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward to Jesus.
14 I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back.
15 So let's keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision you'll see it yet!
16 Now that we're on the right track, let's stay on it. MSG
PHIL 3:13 I dont depend on my own strength to accomplish this; however I do have one compelling focus: I forget all of the past as I fasten my heart to the future instead.
14 I run straight for the divine invitation of reaching the heavenly goal and gaining the victory-prize through the anointing of Jesus.
15 So let all who are fully mature have this same passion, and if anyone is not yet gripped by these desires, God will reveal it to them.
16 And let us all advance together to reach this victory-prize, following one path with one passion. TPT
JER 29:11 Heres what Yahweh says to you: I know all about the marvelous destiny I have in store for you, a future planned out in detail. My intention is not to harm you but to surround you with peace and prosperity and to give you a beautiful future, glistening with hope.
12 When you call on me and come to me in prayer, I will listen to your every word.
13 If you reach out to me, you will find me when you search for me with all your heart.
14 I will not disappoint you, declares Yahweh. All that you have lost, I will restore, and I will regather you from all the nations where I have scattered you. I will bring you back home to the land from which I exiled you, declares Yahweh. TPT
PS 16:5 Yahweh, you alone are my inheritance. You are my prize, my pleasure, and my portion. You hold my destiny and its timing in your hands.
6 Your pleasant path leads me to pleasant places. Im overwhelmed by the privileges
that come with following you! My Praise
7 The way you counsel me makes me praise you more, for your whispers in the night give me wisdom, showing me what to do next. TPT
ROM 8:28 So we are convinced that every detail of our lives is continually woven together for good, for we are his lovers who have been called to fulfill his designed purpose.
29 For he knew all about us before we were born and he destined us from the beginning to share the likeness of his Son. This means the Son is the oldest among a vast family of brothers and sisters who will become just like him.
30 Having determined our destiny ahead of time, he called us to himself and transferred his perfect righteousness to everyone he called. And those who possess his perfect righteousness he co-glorified with his Son! TPT
Ps 33:11 God's plan for the world stands up, all his designs are made to last.
12 Blessed is the country with God for God; blessed are the people he's put in his will.
13 From high in the skies God looks around, he sees all Adam's brood.
14 From where he sits he overlooks all us earth-dwellers.
15 He has shaped each person in turn; now he watches everything we do. MSG
ISA 46:10 I declare from the beginning how it will end and foretell from the start what has not yet happened. I decree that my purpose will stand, and I will fulfill my every plan. TPT
Prov 16:8-9 We plan the way we want to live, but only God makes us able to live it.
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PROV 16:9 Within your heart you can make plans for your future, but the Lord chooses the steps you take to get there. TPT
Dan 2:21 He changes the seasons and guides history, He raises up kings and also brings them down, he provides both intelligence and discernment,
22 He opens up the depths, tells secrets, sees in the dark light spills out of him!
23 God of all my ancestors, all thanks! all praise! You made me wise and strong. And now you've shown us what we asked for. You've solved the king's mystery." MSG
Isa 14:24 God-of-the-Angel-Armies speaks: "Exactly as I planned, it will happen. Following my blueprints, it will take shape. MSG
Eph 1:11 It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living,
12 part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.
13 It's in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it (this Message of your salvation), found yourselves home free signed, sealed, and delivered by the Holy Spirit.
14 This signet from God is the first installment on what's coming, a reminder that we'll get everything God has planned for us, a praising and glorious life. MSG
Acts 2:25 David said it all: I saw God before me for all time. Nothing can shake me; he's right by my side.
26 I'm glad from the inside out, ecstatic; I've pitched my tent in the land of hope.
27 I know you'll never dump me in Hades; I'll never even smell the stench of death.
28 You've got my feet on the life-path, with your face shining sun-joy all around. MSG
PS 23:6 So why would I fear the future? Only goodness and tender love pursue me all the days of my life. Then afterward, when my life is through, Ill return to your glorious presence to be forever with you! TPT
EPH 2:10 We have become his poetry, a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny he has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works we would do to fulfill it! TPT
1 Thess 5:1 I don't think, friends, that I need to deal with the question of when all this is going to happen.
2 You know as well as I that the day of the Master's coming can't be posted on our calendars. He won't call ahead and make an appointment any more than a burglar would.
3 About the time everybody's walking around complacently, congratulating each other "We've sure got it made! Now we can take it easy!" suddenly everything will fall apart. It's going to come as suddenly and inescapably as birth pangs to a pregnant woman.
4 But friends, you're not in the dark, so how could you be taken off guard by any of this?
5 You're sons of Light, daughters of Day. We live under wide open skies and know where we stand.
6 So let's not sleepwalk through life like those others. Let's keep our eyes open and be smart.
7 People sleep at night and get drunk at night.
8 But not us! Since we're creatures of Day, let's act like it. Walk out into the daylight sober, dressed up in faith, love, and the hope of salvation.
9 God didn't set us up for an angry rejection but for salvation by our Master, Jesus Christ.
10 He died for us, a death that triggered life. Whether we're awake with the living or asleep with the dead, we're alive with him!
11 So speak encouraging words to one another. Build up hope so you'll all be together in this, no one left out, no one left behind. I know you're already doing this; just keep on doing it. MSG
Luke 4:18 God's Spirit is on me; he's chosen me to preach the Message of good news to the poor, Sent me to announce pardon to prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, To set the burdened and battered free,
19 to announce, "This is God's year to act!" MSG
ISA 61:1 The mighty Spirit of Lord Yahweh is wrapped around me because Yahweh has anointed me, as a messenger to preach good news to the poor. He sent me to heal the wounds of the brokenhearted, to tell captives, You are free, and to tell prisoners, Be free from your darkness.
2 I am sent to announce a new season of Yahwehs grace and a time of Gods recompense on his enemies, to comfort all who are in sorrow,
3 to strengthen those crushed by despair who mourn in Zionto give them a beautiful bouquet in the place of ashes, the oil of bliss instead of tears, and the mantle of joyous praise instead of the spirit of heaviness. Because of this, they will be known as Mighty Oaks of Righteousness, planted by Yahweh as a living display of his glory.
4 They will restore ruins from long ago and rebuild what was long devastated. They will renew ruined cities and desolations of past generations.
5 Foreigners will be appointed to shepherd your many flocks; strangers will cultivate your fields and tend your vines.
6 But you will be known as Priests of Yahweh, and called Servants of our God. You will feast on the wealth of nations and revel in their riches!
7 Because you received a double dose of shame and dishonor, you will inherit a double portion of endless joy and everlasting bliss!
8 For I, Yahweh, love fairness and justice, and I hate stealing and sin. I will rightly repay them because of my faithfulness and enter into an everlasting covenant with them.
9 Their seed will be famous among the nations, and their descendants the center of attention of the people. All who see them will recognize that they are the seed that Yahweh has blessed with favor!
10 I will sing and greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My whole being vibrates with shouts of joy in my God! For he has dressed me with salvation and wrapped me in the robe of his righteousness! I appear like a bridegroom on his wedding day, decked out with a beautiful sash, or like a radiant bride adorned with sparkling jewels.
11 In the same way the earth produces its crops and seeds spring up in a garden, so will the Lord Yahweh cause righteousness and praise to blossom before all the nations! TPT
Heb 12:1 Do you see what this means all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we'd better get on with it. Strip down, start running and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins.
2 Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed that exhilarating finish in and with God he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God.
3 When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls! MSG