Be Strong & Do It!

This is a guest blog written by my wife Jenny Mushegan:

Good Morning, Friends!!

We are so excited about this year being Full Turn Church's Year of Invasion. We are storming the gates of hell and HEAVEN WILL PREVAIL!!! It's only January 5th and I am so excited about what this year holds for each and every one of us! If you are in the Atlanta area, please make it a point to come to the first Wednesday night service of 2011 at Full Turn. It is going to be powerful!!

Just wanted to share with you today, being a new year and all, Godly habits we all should be forming. The key is to not just start them and let them slowly linger away, but to KEEP ON and STICK WITH IT, not giving up, even when you have opposition against you. Let's finish this to the end!! Something quoted by my husband this past Sunday seems very relevant with what I am sharing with you today. He said, "Once you start doing something over & over again you get comfortable doing it. The hardest part is getting started. Start your year off right. Develop the right patterns!" It works the same way in reverse...."The longer you stay away from something and don't keep up at it (i.e. going to church), then the easier it is to stay away for good. Same example goes for addictions..."


It says in Deuteronomy 11:18-21, "Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds...talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, so that your days...may be...as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth."

Waiting for God's direction each day is something you may have to make yourself do at first, but through practice, it will become natural to begin your day this way. New habits are formed by being consistent. Seeking God first in the morning will soon be something you can't do without.

When God wanted His people to remember something, He told them to write it down. You may have to post reminders to seek the Lord around your house in order to follow through with your new intention. BUT be consistent to seek God first every single day, and He will make your ways successful.

-Joshua 1:7-9 "Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the elft, that you may prosper WHEREVER you go. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go....



I encourage you today to be STRONG in the Lord....be COURAGEOUS, VALIANT, MANLY, STRENGTHENED, ESTABLISHED, FIRM, FORTIFIED, OBSTINATE, MIGHTY!!!!