2023 The Greatest Decision Ever Made

Today is December 30, 2022, we will not pass this way again. Just a day away New Year’s Eve. It was a few days ago we celebrated with family and friends the birth of the Savior, which by the way should be celebrated every moment of every day when he lives in your heart, most of us know that.

As I reflect on what may come, I look back over memories of past years. I can see many changes and yet many things are the same. What will 2023, bring? I have no idea, but my hope is in the only one who does know.

Jesus said,

“So, my counsel is: Don’t worry about things—food, drink, and clothes. For you already have life and a body—and they are far more important than what to eat and wear.  Look at the birds! They don’t worry about what to eat—they don’t need to sow or reap or store up food—for your heavenly Father feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than they are.  Will all your worries add a single moment to your life?

 “And why worry about your clothes? Look at the field lilies! They don’t worry about theirs. Yet King Solomon in all his glory was not clothed as beautifully as they. And if God cares so wonderfully for flowers that are here today and gone tomorrow, won’t he more surely care for you, O men of little faith?

 “So don’t worry at all about having enough food and clothing. Why be like the heathen? For they take pride in all these things and are deeply concerned about them. But your heavenly Father already knows perfectly well that you need them, and he will give them to you if you give him first place in your life and live as he wants you to.

 “So, don’t be anxious about tomorrow. God will take care of your tomorrow too. Live one day at a time.”  Matthew 6:25-34 Living Bible

If you don’t know the Savior, Jesus (Yeshua, his Hebrew name.) Let me say, the greatest thing you could ever do to start the New Year of 2023, is to ASK Jesus to come into your heart, believe that he is the son of God and proclaim him as the Lord and Savior of your Life!! It is by grace through faith that you become a child of the Living God! (Ephesians 2:8)

It’s not a religious act, or man-made concept. When you humble yourself before Him, not man, there will be an actual regeneration of your heart and the Holy Spirit will come into your being and you will be made brand new! It’s not a feeling although some feel all kinds of emotions. Kind of like when a newborn baby is born there is so much joy and peace and happiness! The sin life is gone and like the metamorphosis of the butterfly your changed!

You’re still you but different! The angels in heaven rejoice they celebrate like crazy a holy party takes place because one has been newborn! A new creation! And you’re the reason they are celebrating!

Find a Church that preaches the Word of God and become a student of the Word!

2023, can be the greatest days of your life! Listen! Do you feel that tug, it’s the Holy Spirit saying, “Come on I want you to meet Jesus!”

I hope and pray that all who read this message will come to know Jesus in a greater and deeper way than ever before. I pray that the Holy Spirit will draw all of us into a relationship so intimate and life changing that we will face this coming year with Courage, Strength and a Determination that will Rock the world around us! I pray that we will stand out, speak up, and live out the life Jesus has called us to! I pray that we will not run away from the enemy! That the Word of God will be preached more, there will be multitudes of salvations. I pray that Christians will love more, so much more, that it will transform our Nation! I pray that we will draw so close to God, we will hear his heartbeat, that we will resist the devil(s) that they will flee in every direction and that our Nation will truly be One Nation Under God!! I pray that “No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me, declares the Lord.” Isaiah 54:17

Trials and tests will come, but I pray that just as the early Church overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto death, that we will once again be the Church Jesus has called us to be. The ‘called out ones.’ People are the Church, not a building or organization. It’s you and me, living and serving The King of kings and Lord of lords, in humility but that doesn’t mean weakness… For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12

Let God arise and His enemies be scattered! Praise God!!

Be alert and ready! God is on the move!! In the coming years when we look back on 2023, we will see just How Big! How Deep! How Wide! And how truly amazing our God is and was and is to come!! Amen

~Marla O’Neill December 30, 2022