As you start the New Year, listen to God. Don't listen to the voices of discouragement, but to the great encourager, the one who knew you before you were even born. The key to realizing God's plan for you, of release from whatever captivity you may be in, of restoration to God and his place for you is to seek Him with all your heart. When you do, you not only find him, you also find yourself!

1. False Predictions
As you start the New Year, listen to God.
Don't listen to the voices of
discouragement, but to the Great
Encourager, the one who knew you
before you were even born. The key to
realizing God's plan for you, of release
from whatever captivity you may be in,
of restoration to God and his place for
you is to seek Him with all your heart.
When you do, you not only find him, you
also find yourself!
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2. We are often quick to make judgments
about people. We say that we believe in
forgiveness and the transforming power
of God, but then so often, the church acts
as if we do not believe it. People who
make mistakes are forever labeled by
their mistakes. We believe God forgives
and forgets, but while we say we forgive
them, we seem unable to forget. Listen to
some of the predictions or judgments
that were made about some very famous
people.
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3. Guess who is being referred to?
1. "We don't like their sound, and guitar music
is on the way out."
2. "We don't need you. You haven't got through
college yet.'"
3. ‘Far too noisy...Far too many notes.’
4. 'I watched his countenance closely, to see if
he was not deranged ... and I was assured by
other senators after he left the room that
they had no confidence in it'.
5. "You ain't going nowhere, son. You ought to
go back to driving a truck."
6. "You better learn secretarial work or else get
married."
7. "It doesn't matter what he does, he will
never amount to anything."
8. "You have a chip on your tooth, your Adam's
apple sticks out too far & you talk too slow. "
9. "Can't Act. Slightly Bald. Also Dances."
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4. Answers
1. Decca Recording Co.
rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
2. Rejection of Apple Computer Inc. founder
Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and HP
interested in his and Steve Wozniak's
personal computer.
3. Emperor Ferdinand of Austria referring to
Mozart, 1786.
4. U.S. Senator Smith of Indiana, after
witnessing a demonstration of Samuel
Morse’s telegraph, 1842.
5. Jim Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry,
in firing Elvis Presley after a performance,
1954.
6. Director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency,
advising Marilyn Monroe, 1944.
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5. Answers
7. Albert Einstein's teacher to his father in
1895.
8. Universal Pictures executive to Clint
Eastwood
9. Review of Fred Astaire's Original Screen Test,
January 1933.
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6. Fortunately, God has much more accurate
predictions about our future.
Jeremiah 29:11-14 (NIV)
"For I know the plans I have for you,"
declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you
and not to harm you, plans to give you hope
and a future. Then you will call upon me and
come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
You will seek me and find me when you seek
me with all your heart. I will be found by
you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you
back from captivity. I will gather you from all
the nations and places where I have
banished you," declares the LORD, "and will
bring you back to the place from which I
carried you into exile."
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7. So as you start the New Year, listen to
God. Don't listen to the voices of
discouragement, but to the great
encourager, the one who knew you before
you were even born. The key to realizing
God's plan for you, of release from
whatever captivity you may be in, of
restoration to God and his place for you is
to seek Him with all your heart. When you
do, you not only find him, you also find
yourself!
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