As the New Year approaches, many of us make resolutions to change things in our lives. We want to lose weight, change bad habits, be better people; the list is endless. As honorable as our intentions may seem to be, the sad fact is that only 15% of those resolutions ever get accomplished. Many reasons exist as to why this statistic is so low, but I want to discuss a key one today.

Proverbs 13:12 says,"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life".(NASB) The storms of life come to defer our hopes and strip us of our courage and resolve. Like it or not, storms are the devil's attempt to stop your progress as a believer. Too many precious people accept the storm and grow comfortable with it. They lose their resolve and determination to finish what they started out to accomplish. The results are a "sick heart" and no change effected. Make no mistake, storms will come. Our job is to be resolved in the fact that with Jesus and His Word, no storm can stop us! Let's be victory minded as we enter this New Year with determined resolve to see our godly hopes and dreams be fulfilled.

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