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Wow! Another year is ending. Like many of you, I’m reflecting back on 2024. It seems like it passed quickly. Yet, when I recall everything that happened, I realize it was a busy year full of fun, pain, new friends, and lots of ministry.
At the beginning of the year, I felt the Lord telling me that prayer was going to be an emphasis in my life. I had no idea how that would manifest until learning in February about My Faith Votes (MFV). Soon I became the editor of the MFV Idaho monthly Update Newsletter and then an Idaho MFV Area Coordinator. I also experience the blessing of participating in weekly national and Idaho prayer calls with MFV Action Partners, allowing me to meet and pray with like-minded patriots across the Nation and in my state. I took an active role all year in encouraging people to vote in the Make America Great Again election and represented MFV at several church conferences!
Also in February, I started writing a ‘Nutrition Nook’ column in Idaho’s bi-monthly Christian Living Magazine, using my background as a Registered Dietitian and a love of nutrition. I’m excited about the new Administration’s emphasis on Make American Healthy Again and bought the hat. Every time I wear it, I hear, “Love your hat!”
In July, we attended a grandson’s wedding in North Carolina, visited friends there, and met our first great grandbaby girl for the first time. September found Hubby unable to walk until he had lumbar decompression surgery and I became his recovery caregiver. We both had COVID, yet again!
Praise God, Hubby recovered sufficiently from the surgery and could walk again for us to experience a wonderful Media Resource Center (MRC) cruise. I knew nothing about MRC, only that they are a watchdog of the liberal mainstream media. We learned on the cruise that MRC exposes and counters legacy media's lies and misrepresentations. This was a new adventure for us. We loved it! Can’t wait to go on another cruise with them in 2025.
Hubby continues as an elder at our church, and for the 11th year, we facilitated our church Couples Group that meets in our home. I continue writing my weekly Monday Morning Blogs that I hope bless you.
So yes, when I look back, it really was a full year. But what brings me the most joy and hope for 2025 is the revivals we’re watching take place on college campuses and even in some churches. There’s tremendous opportunity for Christians to share Jesus in the upcoming year. Even young people have had enough with the liberal elite left attempts to make America satanically secular. We’re all ready to make America Godly Again!!
Revival is coming. The election turnout of people wanting common sense, traditional values, and faith back in America signaled the end of destructive and demonic woke and DEI. Christians have an opportunity to be God’s hands and feet to help win souls for Christ and then mentor new believers in how to become disciples sharing the Gospel.
The left is still resisting the will of the people. Even now, they’re conniving and scheming ways to circumvent what the majority of Americans clearly said they want for their life and for their country. The battle for good versus evil won’t be easy. The Bible says the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. I hope you and I can use our time and energy wisely in 2025 to be Christ’s workers recruiting more workers and not become part of the ‘few.’
He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Luke 10:2
You might wonder what God wants for your personal revival in 2025. I’m right there with you. I didn’t know about all the things I mentioned in the opening of this article that God had planned for me in 2024. Many of the places He called me to serve were new to me. But I was open and available to the Holy Spirit’s prompting and prayed about each opportunity. Prayer is a key component to being ready to help spur revival in 2025, but so is reading our Bibles.
Many set New Year’s goals and one is often to read the Bible in a year, which I do annually. It sounds so righteous, but even with a reading plan like YouVersion, or I use CBN, it’s kinda like exercise and joining the gym. Enthusiasm wanes, especially through some parts of the Old Testament.
I’ve always been an advocate of reading the Bible in a year and daily exercise or gym workouts. So last year, Dave bought me earbuds and I listened to the Bible at the gym or while walking. While I miss underlining or highlighting particular verses, I can always do that when I get home. I’m happy to say that by the end of 2024, I will have listened to the Bible from Genesis through Revelation. If you haven’t tried this, I encourage you to switch out music or podcasts for God’s Words in your ears. It’s amazing.
Whoever has ears, let them hear. Matt. 11:15
I’m super excited to discover God’s plans for "Revive in 2025," in our country and in my life, and what assignment He has for me. I’m also excited to hear from you what God is doing in your life that will further His earthly kingdom. Because after all, that’s why we’re here!
Have a Blessed New Year as You Revive in 2025!
About His Work with You,
Janet
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