I love a good rhyme as much as the next guy, but simply finding a word to rhyme with 2025 was not the point that I believe God was trying to get across to me. God was taking the last 4+ years that have truly been an uphill battle in my personal life as He has been teaching me to walk with Him faithfully and said fastly, no matter what my circumstances are! He has been more than faithful and He continues to be! Yet, for the most part, my situation has not changed. 

So His call to thrive in 2025, left me with great anticipation! I had hoped that possibly it would be the end of this driving and straining through difficult situation.

I sprang into my first blog with great enthusiasm!

“Let’s thrive in 2025!” In order to do that, we must have thankful hearts! Hearts that give thanks to God in all things, for all things, and through all things!

Then I got hit extra hard! What I thought would be an end to the difficult circumstances, only proved to heat up!

As I prayed and reached my hands up toward God in worship, and then fall to my knees in prayer, I was soberly reminded through His quiet, still voice that I needed to learn how to thrive in order to thrive in 2025! And for that matter, in any year at any time!

As you may have noticed, there was a pause in my blog posts. Partially because my editor, a.k.a., my daughter, was on a mission trip far on the other side of the world! But in truth, it was also partially due to my feeling of pause in my spirit. Awaiting and seeking and asking, and trusting in what was it that God was truly trying to show me! 

I take God at His word, and I knew that He had told me to thrive in 2025, but that I had omitted a very important word, “HOW?”

I needed to pause and I needed to pray and I needed to ask Him to show me. How can I carry on my challenge? I’ve created an acronym with the word thrive and following through on it every day of this year of 2025.

I was confident after several weeks that I was to carry on the acronym, and that the next letter would be incredibly important! That letter is H. I am to HOPE in all things, at all times, through all circumstances in my God!

“Why so downcast oh my soul? Put your Hope in God.” Psalm 42:5

In a time when God‘s child was discouraged, disappointed, maybe even depressed…He learned to speak these words of Hope to himself, and to turn his eyes toward God, and not toward his circumstances!

God promises to be the lifter of our heads!

“Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are my God, my savior, and my hope is in you all day long.” Psalm 25:5

When we truly hope in God, our Savior it is not about marinating in the negative difficulties that we are facing now. It is all about looking forward and knowing that God has better days ahead!

Many of you are familiar with this verse and too much of the time we take it out of context! We think that because God has a wonderful future for us that that means everything is going to be great, and we are never going to encounter any problems! That is not at all what God says! He says that when we trust in Him and we look to Him as our Hope he has better days ahead!

“For I know the plans I have for you says the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah. 29:11

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YOU CAN ALWAYS COPE WHEN YOU HOPE IN THE LORD!

I am still committed to learning how to thrive in 2025! I apologize for the pause, but I pray that you’re still in it with me! Can’t wait to meet you back here as we practice, thanking God and being hopeful in God and looking to the next letter!

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