I love a new year and a new season! It’s a chance to start fresh or keep the momentum going. You can build on 2025 if it was great for you, or you can have a fresh start if the year prior wasn’t the best. Even every morning is a reminder that you can start again and have fresh faith because His mercies are NEW for YOU every morning! Lamentations 3:22-23 (ESV) says: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
If 2025 was not the greatest or best year of your life, you don’t have to take that same level of expectancy or mindset into 2026. You can have a BETTER year, and it starts by changing your mindset and believing God’s Word for you—that He is doing a new thing in your life.
Your expectancy and discipline actually determine how much you will enjoy or how much you will accomplish in this new year. If you believe and expect to have the same year as before, then that’s likely what you’re going to get. Change your mindset/perspective. Do something different. Do something new. Stop dwelling on past mistakes or traumas when you can have a fresh start in 2026.
It’s always GREAT to recognize, celebrate, and thank the Lord for the wonderful things that happened in 2025 or years prior. It’s scriptural and commanded in God’s Word to be thankful. Psalm 77:11 says, “I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago.” It’s okay to be nostalgic and thank God for prior victories and success, BUT don’t stay stuck in the past. There’s always another level of what He has for you.
Philippians 1:6 says: “And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.”
If there’s a beginning point and a completion point, then that means there’s always something to build on until you meet Jesus face to face on the other side of eternity. There’s always more in God! Start to have an expectation that when God does something amazing in your life, it’s just the beginning. It’s not just for yesterday—it’s for today and tomorrow too! You can build on the good things that the Lord has done in your life.
If you have missed out on something, remember that God is a God of restoration. Maybe you missed out on opportunities, or your relationships have been a mess—the Lord can restore time and situations if you go in the direction He tells you to go and obey what He’s asking you to do.
Joel 2:25 (ESV) says: “I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.”
His anointing will destroy the yoke of bondage in your life (Isaiah 10:27) and restore to you what you may have lost in years past! Even if you feel like you’ve lost time to past mistakes, God can make it so that this year you experience, gain, and accomplish what you missed out on—in just one year. But you have to change your mindset first (renew your mind with God’s Word) and obey what He’s telling you to do!
There’s always more in God. There’s always another level of His love, success, and blessing that you still have to attain. So keep pressing, keep moving, and recognize and allow the Lord to open your eyes to Him doing a new thing in your life! You haven’t gone this way before, and it’s okay. Just let the Lord direct you and do what He puts in your heart/spirit to do, because He’s with you!
Every morning is a fresh day to keep moving forward. STOP LOOKING BEHIND YOU. There’s a forward motion in the Lord. Look ahead and keep going!
Isaiah 43:18–19 (ESV) Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Philippians 3:13-14 (ESV) Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.