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2017. The Year of Identity.

Ah. 2017. New Year. New hopes, new aspirations.

I will confess this year starts off with uncertainty and that could carry me through the entire year. BUT, there is something I'm gathering God wants me to know this year that will hopefully trump that uncertainty!

The thing I most need to focus on and figure out is who I am in Him...and who He is; because I'm guessing I haven't really figured that out yet!

Who is this child-of-God self that I claim to be? I can't figure that out until I get a better grasp of God and who HE is! The intro to a study I'm doing this year by Kay Arthur on the names of God states,"So much of our confusion, our pain, our indecision, and our wrong decisions come because we do not know God. We may know about Him--we may know what others know or say about him--but do we know what God says about Himself? Do we know for ourselves who He really is and, therefore, how He conducts Himself in the affairs of mankind?" I certainly don't know these things and you can bet I am needing to find out...

In addition, who really IS this Jesus fellow I love and yet don't always understand? I can't wait to learn from Lysa Terkeursts new study: "Finding I AM: How Jesus Fully Satisfies the Cry of your Heart."

And finally. Myself. Who am I? My church has a study starting soon called, "Identity: Who God is and who we are in Him."

I am so excited to go into all three of these things...it's going to be an interesting year to say the least and I have an inkling that if I don't get a firm grasp of exactly who I am; in God, in Christ and perhaps even in myself, I'm not going to be able to stand as firmly as I'd like.

So here is to 2017: the year I figure out who I am :)

Ladies, I will need MUCH prayer on this journey. Will you pray for me throughout the year as I come upon your mind? Thank you!!

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