The Bible: Renewal Handbook

More and more Christians are using this time of year as a time of remembering God’s bountiful blessings. Various plans are available. One plan uses November as “30 Days of Thanksgiving,” another suggests 40 days of thanksgiving beginning in mid-October and concluding on Thanksgiving Day, another counts 40 days of Thanksgiving beginning just after mid-November and concluding on December 31.
It is vital that we Christians renew our minds with the eternal value system of God’s Word. Each day we must focus afresh on God and how he makes a difference in the important issues of who we are, why we are here, and where we are going. One value of a daily focus on thanksgiving is that it reminds us every day of God and his role in the world and in our lives. Another way to experience daily renewal is to focus every day on an affirmation from God’s Word. The Bible truly is our “Renewal Handbook.”

I encourage you to join me in making December a month of affirmation. Tomorrow I will post an article explaining the use of affirmations. I will explain the process and help you begin to develop the “affirmation habit.” I will explain how you can develop your own affirmations and use them in your daily walk with God. Each Sunday during December, I will provide affirmations for the week.
Reading (or recalling) a daily affirmation and using it in a morning or evening prayer does not require much time, and such affirmations can help you develop the habit of “renewal through meditation.”