WORD IS REST-SOLUTION  

Our rest is in the promise of God. Your New Year’s resolution will not give you rest. Let your resolution be in the presence of God. The presence of God is in the word of God. The New Year will answer as a year of no lack because the word of God promised it and you make the choice to dwell in the word of promise. It is written, “But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.” (James 1:4) If you will let (allow) patience you will know no lack. The word of God is saying; allow patience to disallow lack in every area of life. Allow patience by obeying God; by keeping His testimonies; pray and not loose heart.
Obedience: Obedience is the key to maintaining His presence in life. It was simple obedience that delivered Noah from the destruction of the wicked world. God commanded Noah to build an ark against flood in a region that hardly saw rainfall. Noah obeyed as commanded and when the destruction time came up he was delivered. The bible recorded, “so those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in.” (Genesis 7:16) Noah was shut inside God’s command, a place of his obedience. It was a place of his rest, a place of no lack.
Keeping His testimonies: The word declared in Psalm 119:2, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies who seek Him with the whole heart.” God blesses and add no sorrow. It is impossible to seek Him with the whole heart and not found Him. Those who seek Him shall end up in His Company and they shall know no lack.
Praying and not loose heart: Jesus used the Parable of the Persistent Widow to point out that men always ought to pray and not lose heart. (Luke 18:1-8) Engage prayer consistently and not allow doubt or fear. In your prayer do not loose heart but be restfully focused on God and you shall know no lack. Will you allow patience to have its place in you so that you lack nothing? Engage the word of God, the word of is true for man to use as the resting place.
All through their journey in the wilderness, the children of Israel were being led constantly by the presence of God. God’s presence gave them direction and leadership which always resulted in rest when they were obedient. All God did to lead them was send His word through Moses. Without doubt, the presence of God is the word of God. It is written: “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction”. (Psalm 107:20) The word of God delivers. Wherever deliverance reigns, rest abides resides. Your New Year’s rest-solution is in the word of God; not in your own word. John 1:1-2 talked about the Word that is more than able to keep man as a resting place, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” Jesus is the Living word of God. John 1:14 also testifies, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” The same word that was in the beginning exists throughout all generations and forever more.
Jesus alone is the rest solution for anyone who will accept and allow the word to have its place in his/her life. In one’s heart there is desire. Often time at the beginning of a New Year, man determines declarations of their heart’s desire (New Year’s resolutions) but fall short devoting to their declaration. In your determination allow prayer to prevail. Pray the word of God for patience to have its place. Ask God to direct your heart into the love of His name and into the patience of Christ Jesus. (2Thesalonians 3:5)
Clearly it remains to be true that hearing the word and having a receptive heart, not a hardened heart, gives rest to man. Hebrew 4:1-3 states, “Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it for we who have believed enter that rest…”
In the New Year, have restful desire. Devote to hearing His word day and night. Do not hardened your heart and He will never leave you nor forsake you. God is true to His word only if man will take to His word.