1. A BLESSED LIFE IN THIS
BLESSED NEW YEAR
DEUTERONOMY 30:15-19
Bishop Genesis T. Udang
2. • Deu 30:15 See, I have set before thee
this day life and good, and death and
evil;
• Deu 30:16 In that I command thee this
day to love the LORD thy God, to walk
in his ways, and to keep his
commandments and his statutes and
his judgments, that thou mayest live
and multiply: and the LORD thy God
shall bless thee in the land whither
thou goest to possess it.
3. • Deu 30:17 But if thine heart turn away,
so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be
drawn away, and worship other gods,
and serve them;
• Deu 30:18 I denounce unto you this
day, that ye shall surely perish, and
that ye shall not prolong your days
upon the land, whither thou passest
over Jordan to go to possess it.
4. • Deu 30:19 I call heaven and
earth to record this day against
you, that I have set before you
life and death, blessing and
cursing: therefore choose life,
that both thou and thy seed
may live:
5. How to have a Blessed life in this New
Year?
• DEFINE YOUR DREAM
6. DEFINE YOUR DREAM
• Psa 37:4 Delight thyself also in
the LORD; and he shall give
thee the desires of thine heart.
• Psa 37:5 Commit thy way unto
the LORD; trust also in him;
and he shall bring it to pass.
7. • If you are aiming on
NOTHING you will surely hit
it, but if you are aiming on
SOMETHING then you need
to define it.
8. • Mar_10:51 And Jesus
answered and said unto him,
What wilt thou that I should
do unto thee? The blind man
said unto him, Lord, that I
might receive my sight.
9. How to have a Blessed life in this New
Year?
• DEFINE YOUR DREAM
• WRITE DOWN YOUR DREAM
10. WRITE DOWN YOUR DREAM
• Habakkuk 2:2-3 says, (2)“And the
LORD answered me, and said,
Write the vision and make it plain
upon tables, that he may run and
readeth it. (3)For the vision is yet
for an appointed time, but at the
end it shall speak, and not lie:
though it tarry, wait for it; because
it will surely come. It will not tarry.
11. CHANGE YOUR MIND SETTING
• Proverbs 23:7 says, “For as he thinketh
in his heart, so is he”……..
• Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore
brethren, by the mercies of God that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto God, which is
your reasonable service. (2) And be not
conformed to this world: but be ye
transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that ye may prove what is your
good, and acceptable, and perfect, will
of God
12. How to have a Blessed life in this New
Year?
• DEFINE YOUR DREAM
• WRITE DOWN YOUR DREAM
• CHANGE YOUR MIND SETTING
13. • 2 Cor. 10:4-6 (For the weapons of our
warfare are not carnal, but mighty
through God to the pulling down of
strong holds ;) (5)Casting down
imaginations and every high thing that
exalteth itself against the knowledge of
God and bring into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ.
(6)And having in a readiness to revenge
all disobedience, when your obedience
is fulfilled.
14. • Philippians 3:13-14, (13)Brethren, I
don’t count not myself to have
apprehended: but this one thing I
do, forgetting those things which
are behind, and reaching forth unto
those things which are before, (14)I
press towards the mark for the
prize of the calling of God in Christ
Jesus -Philippians 3:13-14 KJ.
15. How to have a Blessed life in this New
Year?
• DEFINE YOUR DREAM
• WRITE DOWN YOUR DREAM
• CHANGE YOUR MIND SETTING
• RECOGNIZE WHAT YOU HAVE
RIGHT NOW
16. RECOGNIZE WHAT YOU HAVE RIGHT
NOW
• Moses with his rod - Exodus 4:2
• Samson with a jaw bone- Judges 15:15-
17
• Gideon with his trumpet and Pitcher -
Judges 7:20
• David with his sling - 1 Samuel 17:40
• Jacob with a father’s blessing - Gen
27:26-30
17. How to have a Blessed life in this New
Year?
• DEFINE YOUR DREAM
• WRITE DOWN YOUR DREAM
• CHANGE YOUR MIND SETTING
• RECOGNIZE WHAT YOU HAVE
RIGHT NOW
• TRUST THE LORD WITH ALL
YOUR HEART
18. TRUST THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR
HEART
• “Commit thy works unto the Lord and
thy thoughts shall be established”
(Proverbs 16:3 KJV).
• Proverbs 3:5-6 (5) Trust in the LORD
with all thine heart; and lean not unto
thine own understanding. (6) In all thy
ways acknowledge him, and he shall
direct thy paths.