Some 13 New Year’s Resolutions To Make with Your Spouse

New Year’s Resolutions are hard to keep aren’t they? Well ladies and gents, you’ll find out, if you make New Year resolutions with your spouse, you’ll most likely keep it! So this New Year, why don’t you try to work on your relationship? Maybe if it’s in the form of New Year’s resolution, you’ll be able to keep your commitments. Below, I’ve compiled the top 13 New Year resolutions that you can make for next year to make it a great year for your relationship!

1. Make Time to Connect: This is one of the biggest New Year resolutions that I’m going to make this year. Taking time out for your relationship and truly making time for one another is hard. So whether it’s the busy schedules or the kids make sure that you schedule some time to spend with your spouse. It’ll make all of the difference in your relationship!

2. Admire, Compliment & Praise: I don’t compliment enough. I know it and that’s absolutely at the top of my New Year’s resolutions list for next year. If you’re in the same boat as me, just make a pact to compliment one another more often and to celebrate small little wins. Your relationship should be fun and you should always praise one another!

3. Stay Present: If you’ve been in a relationship for a while, it’s sometimes hard to stay present and sometimes hard to not drift away. Ladies, if you find yourself getting distant, it’s time to make the New Year resolutions that you stay present this year. After all, what fun is a relationship if you’re constantly feeling distant and alone?

4. Work on Communication: Communication is the key in any relationship and should be a key in your relationship. If you and your partner are having a hard time communicating, it might be time for you to work on that communication. After all, good communication can only help your relationship in the long run.

5. Say ‘I Love You’ More Often: This is another one, if you’ve been in a relationship for a long time, the fresh and new ‘I love you’ statements phase out. So why not next year, as a New Year resolution, you say I love you more often? It’s a great way to really let your partner know that you are truly in love with them still.

6. Do ‘Good Things’ for Each Other: Whether it is bringing your boy breakfast in bed or just washing his car, you want to make sure that you’re doing good things for him. That in turn, means that he should be doing good things for you too. Doing random acts of kindness for one another is huge, especially if you’ve been together for a while!

7. Make Sex Time a Priority: Sex doesn’t need to be scheduled ladies, but you do have to make time for it. Why not, this year, make sexy time a priority? After all, it’s a great stress reliever and it makes you feel connected to your partner!

8. Work on Not Fighting: Fighting is an issue in every relationship. Trust me, I’ve been in my fair share of fights with the Better Half. That doesn’t mean you have to fight about everything. So, why not work on it? For next year, take time out to discuss things, instead of fighting them out.

9. Take up a Hobby: While you may have things that you do on your own all of the time, you need something to do together. Find a hobby you’ll both enjoy and get going. It doesn’t matter if you want to learn to cook, learn to paint, or start scrap booking; as long as you do it together that’s what really matters.

10. Have Fun outside of The Relationship: As much as you guys should spend time together, you need time apart too. This doesn’t mean a break, break up, separation, or anything that serious – I just mean a good old fashioned girl’s/guy’s night. You both deserve time with your friends so make plans with friends, or even on your own, just get out of the house for a night and do something without your partner.

11. Keep Your Problems between Each Other: If you and your spouse have trouble keeping lovers quarrels between the two of you, that’s something to work on. Of course you want to vent every so often, and you’re able to, but be careful what you say and to who you say it to. Things you say in anger could come back to bite you so take a vow with your significant other not to blab to other people too much.

12. Have Fun: All work and no play makes for a dull relationship. Go mini-golfing, stay up all night just talking and laughing, have tickle fights, just do something that makes your smile and laugh with your spouse. Relationships are hard work, but they don’t always have to be. If you take the time to laugh and have fun your relationship will be easier and happier.

13. Make a Vision Board: This one might sound kind of dumb, but it could be fun. You both probably want certain things out of life and surely you’ve talked about them before, but why not really map it out. It doesn’t have to be super realistic if you’d rather just have fun with it. If you do want it to be serious, be careful that you don’t argue it’s supposed to be fun. Pick out things like the kind of house you want, car you want, number of kids you want, and things like that then see what you can really make happen.

Finding the ideal New Year resolutions to make with your partner does have to be hard. You just have to find something that works for the both of you. By Big-Sis.

 

THIS NEW MONTH.... Be Not Afraid! Be Glad And Rejoice

Joel 2:

19. “I am sending you grain, new wine and oil, enough to satisfy you fully; never again will I make you an object of scorn to the nations.

20. “I will drive the northern army far from you, pushing it into a parched and barren land, with its front columns going into the eastern sea and those in the rear into the western sea. And its stench will go up; its smell will rise.” Surely He has done great things.

21. Be not afraid, O land; be glad and rejoice. Surely the Lord has done great things.

22. Be not afraid, O wild animals, for the open pastures are becoming green. The trees are bearing their fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield their riches.

23. Be glad, O people of Zion, rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given you the autumn rains in righteousness. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.

24. The threshing floors will be filled with grain; the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

25. “I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten— the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm— my great army that I sent among you.

26. You will have plenty to eat, until you are full, and you will praise the name of the Lord your God, who has worked wonders for you; never again will my people be shamed.

27. Then you will know that I am in Israel, that I am the Lord your God, and that there is no other; never again will you be shamed.

28. “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

29. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

30. I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke.

31. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

32. “And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the Lord has said, among the survivors whom the Lord calls”.
---When you're down to nothing, God is up to something!--- Happy new day/year folks.

Happy Lovely New Year!!!

Happy New Year to our lovely Readers, Fans and Friends all over the world! May this New Year (2014) be a great year for us all and we will all experience the overflowing of Joy and grace of the Lord.

From Adenike Salako Blog’s  World.

GOD WITH US IN THE NEW COMING YEAR STAY CLAIM!!!

And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins. Matthew 1:21

When an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, he was not only telling him that Mary had not been unfaithful, as he had thought, but that she was the virgin spoken of by the prophet Isaiah: "The Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel" (7:14).

That prophecy, given 750 years before, would be fulfilled in Mary. The child she would be carrying is Immanuel: God with us.

What a staggering thought that must have been for Joseph. And what a staggering thought it is for us.

It is really the essence of Christianity. If you took the Christian faith and compared it to all other religious worldviews, this would be the clear distinction: Christianity is "God with us."

Christianity does not require that we try to somehow earn God's approval. The Christian faith teaches that it is God with us, living inside of us, helping us to be the men and women He has called us to be.

Christianity says that we are never alone again. Jesus echoed this same thought when He said, "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age". And in Hebrews 13:5, God said,1 will never leave you or forsake you".

Maybe you need to be reminded of this right now. Maybe you are feeling lonely. God is with you. Maybe someone close to you has let you down or disappointed you.

Affirmation: God is with me, therefore, no one can be against me.

Scriptural Reading: Matthew 1:18-25

Prayer For Darlene Zschech Most Popular Christian Singer

Please join us in prayer for our friend Darlene Zschech one of the most popular Christian singer and her family.

Dearest friends,

We pray you have had a wonderful Christmas thus far.

Mark and I wanted to share with you some news that has touched our family over the last two weeks. On Wednesday, December 11, at a routine mammogram, the doctors discovered that I had developed breast cancer. Since then, it has been a whirlwind of appointments, scans and surgery. Thankfully though, I came home from hospital on Christmas Eve and, with the help of our wonderful team, I was able to watch our HOPE UC Christmas Eve service streamed live into our lounge room.

Even though the past days have been very tough at times, the Holy Spirit has brought me endless comfort and the Word of God is literally holding me moment by moment. My husband and children have been heroic and I can’t thank my family enough for their love and support through this. Our church leadership team have anointed me with oil and prayed with unity and authority, a band of trusted friends have helped me prayerfully and practically, and it is only now that I have felt able to share this with you. To be completely honest, this is not the kind of news anyone ever really wants to tell. However, I have seen two absolute miracles in my body thus far and I know there will be many more to come.

I would like to take this opportunity to say Thank You to my surgeon Dr Trevor Currer, the incredible nursing team at the SAN hospital and the Central Coast APAC nursing staff who have extended so much kindness towards me.

Through all of this, my heart is overwhelmed with God’s love and goodness. Psalm 1, Eph 3, Jeremiah 30, Psalm 66:12 … ‘we went through fire, and through water, but YOU brought us out to rich fulfillment’; Psalm 41:1-3 … the list goes on and on and the WORD of God sustains me.

It brings me no end of comfort to know that you will be praying for my swift recovery. Let’s stand together and pray for ALL of those walking through such challenges at this time. Praise God that His name is GREATER than anything we are facing!!!

I DO know that 2014 is going to be AMAZING. I pray you are rested up and refreshed in this season and ready for all that God has planned for us TOGETHER to achieve for His glory! Just keep bringing thanksgiving because this is the entry point to His courts, where our hearts are fuelled and our souls find peace.

Love you dearly, more than you’ll ever know.

Darls, Mark and family

Senior Pastors

Hope Unlimited Church

Romans 5:3-5 … ‘not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance character and character HOPE. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.’

Leave a prayer for her in a comment below and tag her in the post.

From Adenike Salako Blog's World, We pray that Holy Spirit will comfort her and her family and the healing from the throne of grace will flow in-out of her in Jesus Name(Amen).

 

 

Source: darlenezschech.com

Direction! Direction!! Direction!!!

As the year is about to end, have you made appraisal of the year? What direction did you thread this year?  What direction would you
want to thread next year? To what extent did you meet with the year's resolutions? Do you have any directions and vision for next
year?
This and many more questions are waiting for answers, and until you answer them correctly, focus is delineated. Many people are
about to end the year without stock taking in life and they are expecting a turnaround next year.
Before the year ends, take stock spiritually, academically, financially, in business and otherwise. It is when you do this that you
create direction and focus which are covenant strategies for progress.
Keep soaring and be blessed.

DEFINE YOUR DESTINATION

The speed at which you travel in this life is dependent on how well you know your route! Your speech in life will be hampered if you don't know the route to your destination. When you don't know the route to your destination, you will keep stopping on the highways of life to ask for direction which will definitely delay the time of your arrival.

Many people are stranded in life because they are in the middle of nowhere, and the
people they are asking for direction are misdirecting them.  The end result is that they are confused of where to follow.
To move into next year without a clear cut vision will guarantee the replication of this year's achievement. If you don't know where you are going everywhere will look like it. To keep living the same lifestyle and expecting a different result next year is simply an illusion! To change your result you must change your strategy. If you are size plus, what size do you desire next year?

 Write it down. Do you want to build a new house next year? Write it down. How much do you want to see in your account next year? Be specific. Write it down. How close do you want to be with God next year? Do you want to read the Bible from cover to cover? Kindly write it down.

Do you want to change your job or rather become an entrepreneur? Write it down. Kindly add other things I did not mention on a clean sheet of paper. For the next few days, spend at least one hour a day to visualize on those things you have written down. Enter into that new house, see your weight loss, and see that money in the account with the eye of your mind. Repeat it many times and believe what you are saying.
Keep soaring and be blessed.