New Beginnings

As many people do, as they approach the end of June, I began to reassess my goals and priorities for the year. As per my previous posts, my rosy 2012 seemed to have been hi-jacked by the not so pretty reality of challenges on every front.  Time was flying as it usually does, and already I was approaching the half-year mark, the first 6 months seemingly resembling the aftermath of a series of battles or skirmishes. I was fed –up, and frankly just plain sick and tired with what 2012 was dishing out.  Sometime mid-June I decided that I enough was enough! Things HAD to change. I determined that the latter half of this year would be a stark contrast to the former – My outlook needed to change, and my perspective shifted. I decided that I was not going to just “let” things happen, and just accept things as is.

I made the conscious decision to dedicate the month of July to praying and fasting. A dear friend had shared with me how she had changed the way she was praying, as a result of similar frustrations. I figured that maybe in order to break free of the repetitive cycle of angst, worry, stress, tears etc that appeared to be the script of 2012 up until that point; I needed to become radical, and actually dare to believe what the bible says.

It’s been an awesome time of soul-searching and gut wrenching prayer. I am so excited by the new level of understanding and revelations I have gained about my life in general, and how I am to respond with the Christ given authority that I have already been given. I also took the opportunity to make a conscious break from my past, and any hang-ups I was harbouring over a myriad of issues and things. God is faithful! July was already littered with breakthroughs and awesome displays of God’s goodness towards me. I know for sure that things are shifting and changing.

 I decided to take things a step further through an outward declaration of the new things happening in my life, and in anticipation of what the next 5 months of this year have in store. August is the 8^th month of the year, and 8 is the number for “New Beginnings”! No better time to make a clean break from the “old” me (outlooks, mindset etc) and embrace the renewed, refreshed and re-energised Nyasha!