Three powerful advices that will help you to start with expectation this 2025

 Here you have three advices that will help you to start with expectation this 2025:

1. Do not base your plans on your past, but in your present and in the Word of God.

It's hard not to base your plans on what you have lived, because we think on our past mistakes and on what we don't have. We say: "Why'd be different now? Why even to try?" That way of thinking is wrong. The right way is to see YOUR PRESENT and to see the promises of our heavenly Father.

When you see your present focus on what you have, your talents, your abilities, your opportunities. What you don't have is not your present. Your lack of money, of opportunities, of talents, etc., is not part of you, is not part of your present, that's why you don't have it! For example, if you don't have 20 million dollars, are those 20 millions your present? Obvios that not! Maybe your present is only 10 dollars. Well, start with that!

And if, to what you have you combine with the promises of our heavenly Dad, those 10 dollars become more that enough to start! Your heavenly Dad wants you to use what you have, not what you don't have.

2. Think big, start small.

ALL big achievement starts small, grows small, and it's achieved small. For example, the "small step" that took Neil Armstrong (that "a small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind") was the culmination of millions of small steps taken by him and by a numberless of people that worked together to reach the moon. We cannot make something big with only one decision, but with the accumulation of thousands of small decisions.

So, aim to reach your dreams, let them be big!, written them now, BUT, know that you won't reach them after taking 10 or 20 steps. Do not quit! Keep building from yesterday's work. Keep building brick upon brick, step by step, correcting your way as you go. DO NOT DESPISE THE SMALL PROGRESS, because big dreams are made of those.

3. Live in peace and joy now!

Maybe the most deceiving mentality is that you have to reach your dreams to be happy. You might be thinking that I got that wrong. But I'll repeat it so you make sure it was what I meant: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO REACH YOUR DREAMS TO BE HAPPY. You can be happy now!

Jesus said in John 14:27, "My peace I leave with you, my peace I give you". And then Jesus adds a key part: "I do not give it to you as the world gives". The question is, how does the world gives it? The world gives peace conditionally. That's to say, you have to do something in order to have peace. You have to reach your dreams, belong to the group, have money, travel, get marry, loose weight, build up muscle, be healthy, etc. All of that are good things, and all of that our heavenly Father wants to give you, but never as a condition for you to have peace, but as a consequence of having sought Him firts (Matthew 6:33, Romans 14:17, Psalm 23:6). So, "do not let your heart be troubled and do not be afraid" (John 14:27), because Jesus gives you away His peace. And His joy too! (Philippians 4:4).

Happy 2025!

An Advice that will help you to get your goals this 2018

If you divide what you want to achieve in 365 parts, I assure you that it'll get much easier. The problem that many people face when they resolve to achieve something is that they see what they want as a whole, and obviously what they see is an impossible-to-achieve goal.

What do you want for this 2018? To loose weight, a better relationship with your kids, with you wife, to be free from an adiction? Whatever it may be, you'll get discourage if you think that achieve your goal consists of just one step. Remember this: NO ACHIEVEMENT IS GOTTEN WITH JUST ONE STEP.

Any feat you want to achieve (or that has been achieved) will require time, sacrifice, care, discipline, perseverance, planing, etc., and obviously you can't apply these on just one day, unless, of course, that you know a person that in one day has lost weigh, gotten a dream marriage, restored his/her children relationship, been free from an addiction, etc.

Just in case, there is no magic pill that will make you to loose weigh without exercising and eating healthy food, and those persons that say to the ones with a great marriage, "how lucky you were to get such a beautiful marriage!", don't know what they're saying, they're wrong, because it cost them YEARS of learning to give in, to forgive, to understand and to sacrifice.

So, more than a goal, see what you want to achieve as a direction for YOUR DAILY STEPS to aim, and these DAILY STEPS, these do have to be your goals! EACH DAY AN INDIVIDUAL GOAL, which altogether will take you to where you want to get.

Learn to find satisfaction in achieving these daily goals, in the little ones, each and every day. Learn to be happy:
- Not only when you got your ideal weigh, but you finished a day of eating healthy and exercising.
- Not only when somebody tells you "how great marriage you have!", but when finished a prayer for your spouse (which is one of the many little steps to get to marriage restoration).
- Not only when you "feel free" from your addiction, but when your day is up and you didn't fall.

Doing this you not only will enjoy the process until you get where you want to go, but also you'll realize that doing exploits isn't something for a few people, but YOU also will feel that can do your own exploit, and you'll know there's nothing you cannot achieve.

A prayer for 2018

Heavenly Father, I thank you for 2017 that just finished, because I know that You've been with me all the time. Maybe many times I didn't realize that You were there, but that doesn't mean that You weren't. And for this same reason I know that You'll be with me this year 2018.

I ask you to help me to see You all this starting year. I don't want to be led by my feelings, but I want to learn to live by faith. I know there will be problems, situation that will make me stumble and maybe I'll turn my eye off of You, but help me to put my eyes back to You rapidly, knowing that You won't condemn me for not having trusted You, but You'll be ready to receive me, hug me and help me to solve that problem.

Thank you for I know that you don't seek perfection in me. You don't ask me to be a perfect son, because You know that that is impossible for me. Rather, thank You because You gave your perfect Son so He may die for my imperfections, and thanks to Him, now You see me perfect, holy, pure and spotless. Thank You because that gives the confidence that in 2018 I can go forth for new challenges without the fear of being wrong before You, because I know that You won't be disappointed of me, that You won't get weary of my mistakes and sins, but You'll always be willing to help, correct and direct me with love.

Thank You because Your Word says that You go before me (Deuteronomy 31:8) and that You prepare the way for me (Ephesians 2:10). This means that 2018 isn't new for You. I don't know the things I'll face this starting year, but You do. And I know that, in Your faithfulness, You already ensured that any situation I face has a way of escape, so I'll be able to bear it (1 Corinthians 10:13). So I'll walk confident that You've already been to where I'll be and that You prepared everything for me.

I won't be afraid of the bad news that 2018 brings, because my heart will be steadfast trusting You (Psalms 112:7). You won't abandon me in anytime, move away from me nor leave me alone, but You'll ALWAYS be with me (Matthew 28:20). I decide to see your goodness (Psalms 27:13), and to believe that the earth is filled with your glory (Isaiah 6:3), and that includes my family, my business, my church and my country. My mouth will declare Your good news and not the bad news I'll hear. The physician doesn't have the last word, neither my boss, the president, the authorities, nor the things I see in my family. I decide to believe that You have the last word. I decide to believe Your Word and fix my eyes only on You.

Thank Father because You love and You will always do, and that love is the anchor that soul needs. I feel safe in You.

Amen