Prepare & Activate Your Spirit

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 .

Preparation does not always feel good. You’re growing and stretching. You’re experiencing new things. As you are preparing and being intentional, there are things that will come to distract and deter you. Stay focused. There are some people who will show up who don’t mean any harm, but they don’t know the plan on your life. Stay focused. Preparation may feel like separation, but that’s when you know you are growing.

As you are intentional about spending that time with God, He’s intentional about spending that time with you. As a result, the more time you spend with Him, the more your spirit is activated, the stronger it gets. You now know what His voice sounds like and what His promises are. And that, my friend, is when we wake up the Queen inside. When you activate the spirit in your life, you begin to believe you can do what God has asked you to do. You begin to see yourself as God sees you. You begin to know who you are in Him. When you activate the spirit, your perspective and attitude change towards people. When you activate the spirit, your focus is different; it’s no longer your will, but HIS will. Your dreams and goals become the plans He has for you.

Activating your spirit life does not mean you won’t have obstacles or trials. It means how you go through them is different because you are not alone. It means your response is different. It means you’re not relying on you to get you through. You have help, the Holy Spirit. He’s living on the inside, guiding you every step of the way.

So for this New Year, let’s be deliberate. Let’s feed our spirits with the things that will nourish it and keep it growing. Let’s be intentional and see what God can do when He’s the guide.

“Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.” John 15:4.

Wanda White is a transformative, certified life coach, author, associate pastor, leader, and friend that has helped people from all walks of life to find the strength and courage to continue to pursue their dreams. She passionately trains leaders to be the best in their field. She is a motivator and encourager..