{"id":11684,"date":"2020-01-02T05:47:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T11:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=11684"},"modified":"2020-01-02T05:47:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T11:47:30","slug":"a-year-of-great-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=11684","title":{"rendered":"A Year of GREAT Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the Christmas season and story still resonating in my heart — of a baby in a manger Who became our Savior, I am starting this new year of 2020 on a ” great expectation\u201d high. Certainly not expecting a Disney World kind-of-magical-year, but simple confidence in \u201cHe Who began a good work in me (and you), is faithful to complete it!\u201d (Philippians 1:6) He Who promised that if I put my faith and trust in Him, will show me where to go and how to get there! \u201cIn the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence, and His children will have a place of refuge.\u201d (Proverbs 14:26)

As I said in my blog yesterday, the number 20 symbolizes expectancy. My \u201cexpectors\u201d are on high alert for a 2020 year and a decade of blessings! I plan to wake up each day with expecting the best out of this day \u2013 this moment. No doubt, there will be some highs and lows \u2013 but it doesn\u2019t matter, because I plan to view each day as a gift and how I tackle it with my attitude AND fortitude will either make it or break it for me \u2013 and even others in my sphere of influence.

My husband and I, for years, made it an annual tradition to meet with our children and we\u2019d write out our goals for the next year. We made dream boards that made our visions very plain (Habakkuk 2:2) like this one of mine and Payton\u2019s. BTW \u2013 most all of the pictures and the dreams behind them came true in some way. There\u2019s just something to be said for goal-setting and vision-casting. Goals create a road map for success. They are the targets that we point our lives to \u2013 with a starting point and a destination to reach. They help us clarify what we desire to do, understanding the importance of pursuing them and committing ourselves to making them happen.
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My vision casting, today, isn\u2019t so much about the things to attain since I\u2019ve been there and have been so blessed. I\u2019m in this sweet season of purposely laying up my treasures in heaven far more. That\u2019s not to say we shouldn\u2019t set goals spiritually AND naturally that include dreams and desires. But, for me, my goals are so simple \u2013 spending time with my family, some travelling, but most of all, serving God. I\u2019m intent on leaving a legacy of faith. I sincerely believe this 2020 year will be marked by opportunities to share God\u2019s good news everywhere I go. My \u201cYES\u201d is big when it comes to being a devoted follower of Christ. I\u2019m keeping my eyes and ears wide open with great expectations for a harvest of souls into the Kingdom of God and seeing radical life transformations in those God places in my pathway. I\u2019m purposing to find things that I can take delight in so that I always dwell on goodness and not sorrow. I know I can trust God to bring me through every circumstance in peace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am looking to the future and not the past. I know WHO holds my future so I have no reason to fear or doubt. I refuse to allow discouragement to take me off course. I intend to embrace what God is doing in each situation and circumstance of my life because, by now, I\u2019ve learned \u201cALL things work together for good\u201d because I love God with all my heart and I know I\u2019m called according to His purposes.\u201d (Romans 8:28)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is my “Great Expectation” declaration! Could I please urge you to begin this year with a Great Expectation declaration, too? Great Expections that something good is about to happen to you and yours each day. Great expectations that God is for you. Great expectations for a great hope and future (Jeremiah 29:11). Great expectations for living in hope, love, joy and peace \u2013 every single day of this new year! Let’s get our “expectors” expecting! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the Christmas season and story still resonating in my heart — of a baby in a manger Who became our Savior, I am starting this new year of 2020 on a ” great expectation\u201d high. Certainly not expecting a Disney World kind-of-magical-year, but simple confidence in \u201cHe Who began a good work in me…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16018,16017,16020,16019],"tags":[16008,1210,6080,16023,281,16022,267,398,583,5488,293,4975,16021,2219,826,545,33,3683],"class_list":["post-11684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goals","category-great-expectations","category-tradition","category-vision","tag-16008","tag-blog","tag-confidence","tag-declaration","tag-dream","tag-expectors","tag-faith","tag-goals","tag-good-news","tag-good-work","tag-great-expectation","tag-philippians-16","tag-proverbs-142","tag-refuge","tag-tradition","tag-trust","tag-vision","tag-yes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11689,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684\/revisions\/11689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}