How to prepare for a better 2012

Here is the transcript for the video:

Praise the lord my brothers and sisters, it’s Moses here from Christian Motivation, today is December the 7th, and what I wanted to do is just shoot a quick and simple video as an encouragement to you.

You see, during this time- it’s the season time, especially from Thanksgiving- we kind of put our guards down, we get into the spirit of just eating, and enjoying life, and just partying around, and now thus a very good thing, it’s good for us to just relax and just be happy and just enjoy our families, enjoy the things that we do.

But on the other hand I want to encourage you to just take time, and take inventory of your life, just look at your life; you see where you’ve been and where you want to go. It’s very important that this time we have on us, kind of like free time where maybe some industries it’s a little bit slow- I know some industries where now it’s like they’ve picked up and they’re really working hard, but I’ve come to realize that during this time there are many people that put down their guards, they give up on their goals, not necessarily- not intentionally- but just because they get into that mood of, it’s a holiday season, so they feel like “Ooh, let’s go and party,” so they forget their healthy goals, they forget their relationship goals, they forget their career goals, financial goals, and what on and what have you.

What I want to do today is just encourage you to take inventory of your life, just see where you’ve been and where you are and where you want to go. Just look at your life, and figure out where you- have you been able to accomplish the goals and the things that you wanted to do, or you haven’t been able to, and then find out why haven’t you been able to, or why have you been able to, and just learn from those so you can set yourself up for a better 2012.

One of the things that I did a few months ago is I did a series that talks about the four things that you can do to change the quality of your life. If you’re watching this video from somewhere else other than the website, my website, I encourage you to go to christianmotivation.tv and look for those series. I believe that they are four parts, just talking about four things that you can do to change your life. Those will help you to get you maybe started.

The other thing I want to encourage you to do is to just spend time to be before the lord. Just be still. The bible says, “Be still, and know that I am God,” so I encourage you to just be still and just listen to his voice. During this time there’s a lot of voices that are speaking; it may be our spouses, it may be our children, it may be our radios, our TVs, entertainment, other fun things we go to during this time, and so we are all busy with all these things that are crowding our lives with all the noises that we forget to take some time and just be quiet before the lord, so I just want to encourage you to spend some time, an hour a day, two hours, whatever time you have during the weekend, and just be still and listen to God and listen to his spirit, let him just speak to you and kind catch up with you properly If I may say on how your life should be and where he wants you to go in 2012.

For those of you who haven’t yet realized the purpose that is on your life, this is a very good time where you can just spend time asking the Holy Spirit and God to show you exactly what he has in store for you, the purpose that he has for your life.

I want to remind you that every time you wake up in the morning and realize that you’re still breathing, realize that you still have that breath of life, just remember that there is a purpose on your life, and the purpose is not yet done, so what you do is you just ask God to thank you for the day, and then ask him to reveal the purpose that he has for your life.

So, for those of you who don’t know what the purpose is, this is a good time where you can do that. Probably, when I get an opportunity I w ill share with you some resources, some free resources that I know out there that could help and benefit you in finding out what your purpose is.

For those of you who know what your purpose is, you just want to check in with God and make sure that you are still on the right track. It’s amazing sometimes we’ll start living life, we will know our purpose, and before we know it will we get off track because of something that takes us off track, so you just want to check in every now and then to make sure that you are still on track.

For those of you who’ve had a wonderful year, we thank God for that wonderful year, we expect a better year. For those who have had a tough year, I want to encourage you that god is still on the throne, god is still in control. There is nothing he cannot do, and the very fact that you are still alive is an indication that God has something in store for you. Never ever lose hope in God. Never lose hope in God.

I want to remind you of the story of Joseph. Probably Joseph had hit bottom. You know, he was at one place one of the loved children. He was the most loved child, yet at one point he was thrown into the pit, and then he goes to Pupa’s house, he was lied about, and then he ended up in prison. It almost seemed like he couldn’t go any lower. And then, it was just one day- just one day, he got from being the lowest you could ever go, in prison, to being second in command in the whole country.

So there is nothing that God cannot do. There are many examples in the bible, in the word of God, that show us that God is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above what you even think, so there is power on the inside of you, God has invested a lot in you, he has given his son Jesus Christ, and he has invested a lot in you. There is nothing, there is totally nothing that he cannot to do take you out of all the troubles you have gone through.

There is- I’ve just been reminded, just as I was sharing this, I’ve been reminded of a scripture, again it’s to do with Joseph, that I’ve read, that I will take- I’ll have an opportunity to share with you and show you how God can take you from bottom, and then he takes you to a place where he will even make you forget your past. I’ll share with you that some other day.

But for now, all I wanted to encourage you in is that- take time, and take inventory of your life. Take time to spend time in the presence of God during this holiday season, so that when 2012 comes around you are ready to go forward in victory.

Again, it’s Moses here from Christian Motivation, encouraging you to stay blessed, to keep the faith, and to reign in light.