{"id":720,"date":"2018-01-01T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/happy-new-year-new-is-word-of-day\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:12:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:12:33","slug":"happy-new-year-new-is-word-of-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"Happy NEW Year — NEW is the Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\nI was checking in with Headquarters (God \u2013 my CEO) on what my assignment for 2018 would be, and the message I received was “Word of the Day\u201d. My blogging began in 2010 and it started with daily posts that spoke of the faithfulness of God during our roller coaster ride that sure had its ups and downs in it. That was the year my Sweetheart battled Stage 4 Kidney Cancer until he received his “eternal” ticket to ride to his finish line, and go to his home sweet home. In any case, it was the NEW beginning of my blogging and daily posting on Facebook.<\/div>\n
\nThe next year, 2011, I asked God for my NEW \u201cwidow\u2019s\u201d assignment, still desiring to serve God in the best way I knew how, and I received the words \u2018\u2019This is your mandate \u2013 every day provide a positive, uplifting and encouraging message the first thing in the morning so that others will have those thoughts to hold onto in their new day.\u201d So, here I am, starting my ninth year of blogging, and I still love greeting each new day with words that have the potential of altering the course of someone\u2019s otherwise negative start or finish to their day. Since the beginning, I\u2019ve received all kinds of encouraging comments from my friends and family \u2013 you know who you are! God bless you for being my cheerleaders! From that time to this \u2013 I\u2019ve purposed to post before 6 a.m. every morning \u2013 only adjusting if I\u2019m in a location that doesn\u2019t permit easy access to Wifi. A few years later, 2015 to be exact \u2013 my assignment was to find a photo inspiration for each day and to write my post based on that photo.<\/div>\n
\nNow \u2013 with 2018 ahead of me, the message I received from Headquarters, is what I\u2019ll be doing \u2013 seeking God for 365 words for 365 days of 2018. I\u2019m making a conscious choice to focus on ONE word for each day \u2013 and I hope and pray the words God gives me are THE WORDS that will encourage you and give you added fuel for your daily faith journey. This year starts with the word, \u201cNEW\u201d.<\/div>\n
\nThere is just something about the start of a NEW year — with a NEW journal or a NEW calendar. It’s a clean slate. There\u2019s something in us that naturally draws us toward fresh beginnings. 2017 was a doozey of a year for many its end brings the hope of a NEW start. I\u2019m sure God engineered us for do-overs \u2013 fresh starts. Why would I start this year with NEW? Because even God seems to think new starts are pretty sweet. Here are some of God’s “NEW” words from His WORD (the Bible), to help us enter into 2018 with a NEW beginning.<\/div>\n
\n~~~ GOD MAKES US NEW: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a NEW creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become NEW.” 2 Corinthians 5:17<\/div>\n
\n~~~ GOD GIVES US NEW SONGS OF PRAISE. \u201cHe put a NEW song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God.” Psalm 40:3<\/div>\n
\n~~~ GOD MAKES NEW WAYS FOR US \u201cI am doing a NEW thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.\u201d Isaiah 43:19<\/div>\n
\n~~~ GOD\u2019S MERCIES ARE NEW EVERY MORNING. “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are NEW every morning; great is your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23<\/div>\n
\nWe have a NEW year to be the best versions of ourselves that we can possibly be; NEW potential for achieving our goals; NEW clean slate to start fresh to show ourselves and others that we are a finisher \u2013 not a quitter; New will to overcome; NEW desires to trust God in the sun and in the rain; NEW goals to break OLD habits. It’s time to begin again with NEW expectations of great NEW adventures and blessings up ahead. But most importantly to write some NEW stories that leave a NEW legacy for those who are following us — a legacy of “I can” and “I will”!!<\/div>\n
\nI\u2019ve already started on my NEW chapter. At the end of 2018….I’ll glance back at the victories won and the many, many NEW doors that opened up for me to great NEW opportunities! Today, I close the door to the past, open the door to the future, I take a deep breath, step on through and start a NEW chapter of my life. How about you?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was checking in with Headquarters (God \u2013 my CEO) on what my assignment for 2018 would be, and the message I received was “Word of the Day\u201d. My blogging began in 2010 and it started with daily posts that spoke of the faithfulness of God during our roller coaster ride that sure had its…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[4013,4114,4115,4116,395,4117,396,422,4118,4119,402,4120,2534,4121,4122,3147],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-4013","tag-365-days","tag-365-words","tag-blogging","tag-clean-slate","tag-do-over","tag-fresh-start","tag-happy-new-year","tag-mercies-are-new","tag-new","tag-new-beginning","tag-new-calendar","tag-new-creation","tag-new-songs","tag-new-thing","tag-word-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","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=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7735,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/7735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}