Happy New Year! I was thinking of you and wanted to give you something to meditate on as we entered 2010. As always, I’m so excited about what lies ahead. And why not be excited, God has already told me what’s going to happen. He plans to prosper you and not to harm you. He’s given you hope and a wonderful future (based on Jeremiah 29:11). Did you know that God has already blessed this year? When I started collecting scriptures for this article, I was lead to Genesis and Revelation (and some points in between)—I saw blessing from beginning to end. Please enjoy reading what the Holy Spirit gave me for you.

You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.
—Psalm 65:11 NIV

Don’t look at what the world is experiencing. The Lord has already crowned this year with bounty! Remember He is the Ancient of Days. He knows all things and holds time in His hand. Everything He created was called good. In order to experience the Blessing all year long, we need to remind ourselves daily of Psalm 118:24 which says, “This is the day that the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!” That’s 365 blessed days and it equals a year crowned with bounty!

In the beginning God created. What did He create—time, days and seasons for people to enjoy. And, He said it was all good. Genesis 1:31 recounts, “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.” So regardless of what the media, politicians or your co workers are saying, THIS YEAR IS GOOD AND WILL BE GOOD BECAUSE GOD CREATED IT. Furthermore, His reason for making it good was and still is for His children to enjoy.

A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
—Deuteronomy 11:12

His eyes are upon you if you are in covenant with Him. This is included in our Blessing. The LORD is good to all; He has compassion on all he has made (Psalm 145:6). And we have biblical proof that anything God makes is bountiful, blessed and flowing with abundance. This should be our experience no matter what year it is or the economic status of our country. As a matter of fact, I believe when the world has lean times, it is a better opportunity for God to show off in our lives. People will want to know why and how our days and years continue to prosper.

Finally I’d also like you to meditate on God ending things the same way He began. Creating. Revelation gives us a glimpse. Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” So he took me in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and he showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. It shone with the glory of God and sparkled like a precious stone—like jasper as clear as crystal (Revelation 21:1-2, 10-11). This sounds like bounty to me! If none of the other verses convinced you, just focus on these. They will remind you of how the Lord is living and His expectations for you this year and every year until His return. He created it, crowned it and blessed it and He expects you to have a blessed year from beginning to end.

Be blessed friends and have the perfect day everyday!
Psalm 138:8
—Shontta

Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. – Matthew 25:28,29

The Why of Wealth
Why do some people become rich and most people live a life of poverty? While it’s true that some people enter the world with certain advantages, it’s also true that many without the advantage of a head start finish rich.

The Rich Get Richer
The fact is that people who accumulate money tend to keep accumulating it. People who don’t accumulate money lose even the little bit which they have.

The Wealth Principle
The single idea that explains wealth accumulation is simple. Essentially, you create who you are and what you have by what you think about. Furthermore, whatever you meditate upon, grows in your reality. You design your world by what you choose to think about and how you choose to think about them.

Wealthy, prosperous people fill their minds with thoughts, words, and images of wealth, affluence, success, productivity and solutions, the majority of the time. These thoughts determine what things in their environment they notice. For example, when someone buys a car, they notice these cars everywhere. It’s not that car sales for this make and model multiplied overnight; instead, their brain brought them to their attention.

Take Out the Trash
On the other hand, poor people think lack and scarcity on a consistent basis. They are always thinking, and complaining about how little they have and how much things cost. They attract lack because that’s where there focus is.

Think Like the Wealthy
Rich people start thinking about how much they have and how much they want when they are young. They they consider what they can do to acquire the things they desire. Here’s something simple to remember, if you want to become successful; find out what losers do and don’t do it. If you want to be rich, find out what losers think about, and avoid thinking like that.

Instead, study wealthy people. What do they read? How do they spend their time? How do they talk? What do they do? How did they become wealthy? Then, do what they do.