PREPARING FOR A NEW BEGINNING

PREPARING FOR A NEW BEGINNING.

TEXT:Proverbs 4:5-9 (KJV) 

⁵  Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. 
⁶  Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. 
⁷  Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. 
⁸  Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. 
⁹  She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. 

Life seems to be very hard for most people at the beginning of the year because they were very careless in their spending as they party to celebrate Christmas and the New Year. No month of the year should be hard for you if you open your heart to divine understanding.  Proverbs 14:33 says ^“Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.”

 A man of understanding has been given the wisdom to prioritize, so he is careful about his choices and spending’s during the Christmas season, but fools are blind to obvious realities. They spend to prove that they have arrived. Why try to outdo the “Joneses”? this is a senseless competition for which no one will be given any prize. Don’t allow your foolish pride lead you into indebtedness and embarrassment. Remember, after the celebration comes the month of January with 31 days. Your income has to be adequate to meet your need for the rest of the month. There will be bills to pay and it is very possible they would increase.

 Do not forget, ^“ Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.” Every wise child of God will prepare very well, not only to take care of necessary needs but also to commit the rest of the year to God. A wise man will begin to prepare by setting aside some savings so that he will be able to give his first fruit from his first earnings in January of the New Year. He understands the biblical principle that if the first is consecrated then the rest is blessed. By so doing he secures his blessing for the rest of the year and the lines are made to fall in pleasant places for him.