Each year I spend time in reflection and prayer. It’s a process that takes some time but it’s well worth it. For those who may be looking for some assistance in what to do to prepare for 2025, I want to offer a guide that can help. Ending well isn’t always a guarantee but starting right can certainly help. Here’s an acrostic for S.T.A.R.T. to get you off to a great one in 2025.
Seek God in prayer.
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.”
Psalms 32:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.32.8.NASB1995
When our eyes are on the Lord, we will see His direction.
“The mind of man plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps.”
Proverbs 16:9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.16.9.NASB1995
“You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.”
Jeremiah 29:13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.29.13.NASB1995
“May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ.”
2 Thessalonians 3:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2th.3.5.NASB1995
“For You light my lamp; The Lord my God illumines my darkness.”
Psalms 18:28 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.18.28.NASB1995
“Make me know Your ways, O Lord; Teach me Your paths.”
Psalms 25:4 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.25.4.NASB1995
“Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; For You I wait all the day.”
Psalms 25:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.25.5.NASB1995
“Many plans are in a man’s heart, But the counsel of the Lord will stand.”
Proverbs 19:21 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.19.21.NASB1995
Time in the word to know His heart.
“But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”
James 1:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.1.5.NASB1995
“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.”
Romans 12:2 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.12.2.NASB1995
“O Lord, lead me in Your righteousness because of my foes; Make Your way straight before me.”
Psalms 5:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.5.8.NASB1995
“The steps of a man are established by the Lord, And He delights in his way.”
Psalms 37:23 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.37.23.NASB1995
“Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, For I delight in it.”
Psalms 119:35 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.119.35.NASB1995
“Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.”
Psalms 119:105 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.119.105.NASB1995
“Establish my footsteps in Your word, And do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.”
Psalms 119:133 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.119.133.NASB1995
“Teach me to do Your will, For You are my God; Let Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.”
Psalms 143:10 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.143.10.NASB1995
15 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. 9 Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. 11 These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12 “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 17 This I command you, that you love one another.
18 “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He who hates Me hates My Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. 25 But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’
26 “When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me, 27 and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
Accept His instruction, correction and direction.
“All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;”
2 Timothy 3:16 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2ti.3.16.NASB1995
“Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and turn away from evil.”
Proverbs 3:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.3.7.NASB1995
“For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.”
Proverbs 2:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.2.6.NASB1995
“Heed instruction and be wise,
And do not neglect it.
He is on the path of life who heeds instruction,
But he who ignores reproof goes astray.
17 So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 So then, you will know them by their fruits.
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. 26 Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”
Repent and resolve to obey.
“He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.”
Psalms 23:3 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.23.3.NASB1995
“Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, and He will do it.”
Psalms 37:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.37.5.NASB1995
“Commit your works to the Lord And your plans will be established.”
Proverbs 16:3 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.16.3.NASB1995
“Then you will discern righteousness and justice And equity and every good course.”
Proverbs 2:9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.2.9.NASB1995
“Put away from you a deceitful mouth And put devious speech far from you.”
Proverbs 4:24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.4.24.NASB1995
Trust God with the future and live each day by faith.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.3.5-6.NASB1995
“You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.”
Psalms 16:11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.16.11.NASB1995
“Let your eyes look directly ahead And let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you.”
Proverbs 4:25 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.4.25.NASB1995
“Watch the path of your feet And all your ways will be established.”
Proverbs 4:26 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.4.26.NASB1995
“Do not turn to the right nor to the left; Turn your foot from evil.”
Proverbs 4:27 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.4.27.NASB1995
“Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.” But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.”
James 4:13-17 NASB1995
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This is a great guide to start the year.
The scriptures are also adequate and in line with each mentioned docket.
GOD BLESS YOU SO MUCH FOR THE GREAT INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGES MAN OF GOD.YOU ARE A GREAT BLESSING OVER MY LIFE.
You have mentioned the exact and great spiritual contents that can make me walk in this life with God smoothly may God bless you so much.