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Everyone agrees family is most important. But how much time do you spend preparing for your 2016 family goals?
Join the Wiggins Household for our annual summit as we discuss and prepare for 2016.
Saturday, January 16
@ Fort Wiggins in Bowie, MD
9:00am – noon
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Ya-know how sometimes we are so looking forward to the New Year for God to “do a new thing”, “take us to the next level”, “get my come-up”…or whatever blessing we’re hoping the Lord will bestow upon us? It’s healthy to have these expectations…to set our heart on things above (Col 3:1). But before all that…we got the holiday season. Yea! It’s like every group, organization, office, and ministry is throwing a party. The turn-up is real!
My friend Marcie shared with me what the Lord had convicted her about her end-of-year turn-up period.
“What if God wanted to give you everything he has for you in the New Year…everything you’ve been praying for…on January 1st? Would you be ready to receive it? Would you be prepared to handle it?”
A lot of times, people look to the New Year with great expectation on what God is going to do. In so doing, they write off the end of the current year…for the turn-up…and fail to get ready to receive what they are expecting. I’m guilty of this. My wife and mother’s birthdays are in December. Plus I got all the office-friends-church-organizational holiday parties that I eagerly look forward to (and I luvs me a good party…of which I’ve been known to turn-up). Little on my mind is the mental, spiritual, emotional, and educational head-space I need to be in if God were to direct-deposit a year’s worth of purpose-driven resources to me via ‘a way out of no way’. Maybe that’s why I didn’t accomplish everything I wanted to accomplish this year because God truly didn’t put on me more than I can bare.
Christmas parties, New Year’s parties, Just-Because-It’s-the-Holidays parties…yeah…do that. But don’t spend the last few weeks of the year partying…and forsake preparing. So after you turn-up…turn-down to hear the still quiet voice that’s preparing you for your purpose.
#WednesdayWisdom
Turn-Down For What…To Prepare for Your Purpose
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