These steps will help you to keep on the right road with God through the year.1. Relationship - reaffirm your relationship with God (see John 15:5).
2. Review - look back on the past year and ask God to show you areas of sin and weakness that might have hindered your spiritual growth (see Psalm 139:23-24).
3. Repent - confess your sin and ask God to forgive you (see 1 John 1:9).
4. Refresh - ask God to refresh you and to give you a new vision for the year ahead (see Jeremiah 29:11).
5. Renew - ask God to help you see your life from His perspective, and renew your commitment to His vision and purpose for your life (see Romans 12:2).
6. Resolve - resolve to be faithful to God's purpose in your life and to glorify Him in the areas that He has called you to serve (see Philippians 3:14).
7. Record - record in a prayer journal your progress, remembering that it is only by His grace that you are able to grow in Him (see Hebrews 4:16).
Jesus will walk with you each step of the way: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou are with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me" (Psalm 23:4; KJV).
Jason Cicero
