I am thankful for a great year. Did everything go perfectly? Of course not. There were setbacks, failures, tragedies, loss and some of the frustrations of this year are going to be carried over into the new year. I say it was a great year...because it was another year in my life where JESUS CHRIST WAS LORD! That’s it. He reigns in our lives as we surrender daily. Life can be confusing, sometimes it doesn’t make sense...but HE IS LORD OVER ALL! And for that, I’m grateful and will continue to be into the new year. Let’s determine right now, JESUS CHRIST WILL BE LORD OF 2019. That means it will be a year of obedience a year of prayer where we seek God daily for His perfect will and a year of repentance so that we stay clean and right before God. We don’t know what God has for us in 2019 but if you will determine Him to be Lord we can have an expectation that it will be a year where HE WILL BE GLORIFIED THROUGH OUR LIVES. [Philippians 2:9-11] “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, to the glory of God the Father.” FOR THAT...NOTHING BUT GRATITUDE!