January 2 Devotion - Happy New Year- God Has Prepared Good Things for You in 2017

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 
            

وَفْقاً لِمَا كُتِبَ: «إِنَّ مَا لَمْ تَرَهُ عَيْنٌ، وَلَمْ تَسْمَعْ بِهِ أُذُنٌ، وَلَمْ يَخْطُرْ عَلَى بَالِ بَشَرٍ قَدْ أَعَدَّهُ اللهُ لِمُحِبِّيهِ!»

1 Corinthians 2:9

“Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea And a path through the mighty waters, “ Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.”

هكذا يقول الرب الجاعل في البحر طريقا وفي المياه القوية مسلكا 18 لا تذكروا الاوليات. والقديمات لا تتأملوا بها. 19 هانذا صانع أمرا جديدا. الآن ينبت. ألا تعرفونه. اجعل في البرية طريقا في القفر انهارا.

Isaiah 43:16, 18-19

Was 2016 a wilderness type of year for you? Was it dry like a desert? Even if it was so, God is telling us to forget any former things and to behold His new roads in the wilderness and His rivers in the desert.
Let us rejoice, at all times rejoice, for God is preparing beautiful things for us. He tells us that they are beyond our imagination and we have not seen anything like them before.

Let us expect God’s blessings and trust His promises and believe that in 2017 we will be able to repeat what King David said:
You crown the year with Your goodness, and Your paths drip with abundance.

Psalm 65:11

كللت السنة بجودك وآثارك تقطر دسما.

I invite you to repeat the following prayer for yourself and to meditate on it:

Abba Father, I thank You that in 2016 You showered me with abundant blessings and I thank You for Your inseparable love. I thank You for what I have and for what I do not have. I thank You for Your Mercy and for Your Grace. I put my future in Your hands. I love You Father and I am at awe at all the unbelievable blessings You have prepared for me in 2017. They are so great that my eyes have not seen, nor my ears heard, nor have I imagined in my heart the greatness of the blessings which You Lord have prepared for me. I know from experience that You always keep Your promises Lord and I believe that You are a God of miracles and You will do new things that shall spring forth; and You will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. I rejoice in confidence that in 2017 You will bless me, my family and friends and anyone praying this prayer and reading this devotion. I declare Jesus as my Lord and Saviour and I pray in His Holy Name. To Him be the power, the glory, the majesty, the blessings, and the dominion forever and ever, Amen.  

         

Jesus loves you,

In Him,

Wagdi Henein