Prayer
God my Father, thank you for this day and for the message you've given me to speak. Give me the words, Lord, so that I may execute your message your way and reach who needs to be reached. God, I ask that you to not only guide my words, but guide my day and fill every moment with your grace and glory. I praise you, God! For all that you have done and all you are doing in my life and for the opportunities you are making way for me to bless others. Thank you for being ever present in my life and spirit. In Jesus' name I pray, and in His blood I live my life for You. Amen.
New Year's Resolutions are written all over the world on this day. Lists are good. I like lists and the gratification of checking off goals. But it takes DOING to make that check next to the goal. If it's a grocery list, we must get up, get dressed, go to the store and look for what is on the list. Resolutions are usually anywhere from 5 to 30 items long, depending on how ambitious and driven someone is.
So we make declarations to quit smoking, exercise more, and go on a new diet. We grab our vapes, our green shakes, and powerwalk to the gym determined to be more healthy...physically. We make promises to visit family more, be nicer to the spouse, be patient with the kids so our relationships are better. We lean in at work, vowing to be better at our everyday jobs. But we forget about our spiritual health, our relationship with God, and goals as a Christian. We make all these plans but forget about His plan.
He makes plans for you.
Jeremiah 29:11
New International Version
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
In the King James Version is states
Jeremiah 29:11
King James Version
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
I like this definition of plan...He thinks it toward us and then gives us the expected end...meaning he has it all planned out...good plans without evil.
Meanwhile, every single day, we rely on our own thinking and planning and suffer through every struggle our broken resolutions and plans bring us.
I declare 2024 is different. Not just because of the spiritual shift that is happening right now in the believers' lives. But because God has thought his plans for me toward me and I know he is going to give it to me. I've had faith in His promise since he thought it to me first about five years ago, but a clear vision two years ago. And the doors are opening! His doors. A place to start the Fortress of Faith he told me to build. And I have people contacting me, ministries, who want in on this plan because God thought it to them too. Praise God because He is a Big God!
God's plans are not like the resolutions you make. They don't fail. God's word is solid. And once we speak what he thinks to us, it is prophecy. I'd much rather have His prophecy than some idea I call a resolution once a year.
We can barely make it six months on a resolution. Christ fulfilled over 300 prophecies in his lifetime, including his very birth. For me this is proof that we each are God's creations, thought into existence and woven in our mothers' wombs. That makes you and I a prophecy. Let that sink in. You are a fulfillment of a prophecy of God just by being born.
Psalm 139:13
New International Version
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
So this year, if you must make a list, remember your Father's plans for you. Add to the list goals as His child, His prophecy, His creation. Pray & Meditate more...think back to him. Schedule a time daily to read & study scripture. Wait for His plans for you to be thought to you. And have faith in what He thinks to you and say it out loud so that it becomes prophecy over your life and by speaking it, you come into agreement over those plans. Speak that prophecy every day. Believe it. Live your life as if you already have it.
If you want to eat healthier and get into shape, you have to get up and shop for the right foods and make the effort to work out every day. You change your life to include those goals. So why can't you change your day to include your relationship with God? Not just church on Sunday, but call Him each and every day.
1 Thessalonians chapter 5 is a good list to make on how to be a Christian in 2024. These should be the list of life changes you make.
1 Thessalonians 5
King James Version
5 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
16 Rejoice evermore.
17 Pray without ceasing.
18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
19 Quench not the Spirit.
20 Despise not prophesyings.
21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
25 Brethren, pray for us.
26 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.
27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.
28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
And by our reading this aloud because verse 27 says I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren today, and each time we read it out loud to others, we fulfill that prophecy.
We must be prophecy minded, living in the understanding that prophecy cannot be broken. And we either get on board or we miss the ferry and just watch from the opposite bank at God working through this world as he gives us the expected end, the hope and blessings of the future he plans for us. I am not the one on the bank. I am a participant.
Here Am I, Lord!
He glimpsed to me what he has planned for me. A fortress of faith that helps those in need through basic needs, affordable sober living, spreading the Word, and building up other ministries who will reach out to fulfill prophecy in their lives and others as well.
If you would like to be part of what we are doing, you can stand in agreement and pray for what God has shown me, contact me here on Facebook, by email. (ajs.soulshine@gmail.com), or text me at 1-601-738-2366. We will have room for ten more ministries to partner and work with on site, and unlimited amount of ministries we are partnered with. And you can sow into this ministry through paypal by sending to ajs.soulshine@gmail.com or Cashapp by sending to $soulshineministry We are going to need funding to build the buildings for the men's and women's ministry facilities, for the food and storage of household items to give to the needy, and in providing housing for the ministries on site. You can also donate big items that will be needed...vehicles, building materials, actual work such as plumbing and carpentry and building work and later we will need furnishings.
I declare that this is happening in 2024 just like God showed me. I believe what He thinks to me, what he shows me. And I am living my life in Faith. I am rejoicing about what is already on the way! Praise God! He am I, Lord.
Thank you for joining me today. I love each and every one of you. I appreciate each of you and ask that you share this word out so that it can reach all who need to hear it and understand that by doing so, you too are helping fulfill prophecy.
Until next time, remember to love yourselves and love one another. God bless.
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