We are glinting to go into the year expecting Victory!!!!
We will give him our first fruits in 2018.
Can you imagine Gideon as the angel told him "You are going to win this battle"?
Let's give him the first three months in our church, house and work!!!
Some promises need stewarded.
"They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.""
Acts 16:31 NIV
http://bible.com/111/act.16.31.niv
"How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; his dominion endures from generation to generation."
Daniel 4:3 NIV
http://bible.com/111/dan.4.3.niv
"But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.""
Joshua 24:15 NIV
http://bible.com/111/jos.24.15.niv
Joshua was making a declaration because there is power in the spoken word. An allegiance to the One Living God!!!
"if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV
http://bible.com/111/2ch.7.14.niv
"Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom's instruction."
Proverbs 29:18 NIV
http://bible.com/111/pro.29.18.niv
Joshua declared this is the way we are going.
Habakkuk 2:2...write down your declarations
He is the God of the impossible
Ephesians 3:20-21