Prepare and Activate Your Spirit Life for a New Year By Wanda White MCLC
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
As the New Year begins, people tend to reevaluate their life, plans, goals, relationships, etc. They tend to see what they can add to their life or remove in order to have a successful year. One of the main things to reevaluate is your spirit life. Does your spirit life need some revamping? Does your spirit life need some nourishment? Your spirit life is your guide. Your spirit life is that inner voice you hear whispering in your ear, leading you, nudging you, warning you, and preparing you. The best way to prepare and activate your spirit life for a new year is to be intentional. Be intentional to set aside time to feed your spirit. Not sure how to feed your spirit? “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know” (Jeremiah 33:3). Get connected to the source, the provider of your nourishment. Read your word, meditate, journal, pray, listen to praise and worship music, even join a bible study or group at your church, just to name a few. What you feed grows, so keep feeding it. And if your spirit is what’s guiding you for the New Year, it has to have enough nourishment to sustain you. No, you can’t read your bible one time and that’s all for the year. It’s a constant state of learning and renewing our minds and doing it on purpose. It’s like being intentional about anything else. You make time for it. You study it and learn all there is to know about it. And you show up for it. For example, let’s take working out at the gym. Each rep you do with the weights is preparing your body for the next weight. It’s activating muscles inside that you may not have used before, and sometimes that can be painful. But because you want the results, you push through . CONTINUED ON P. 16
