PURSUE MY DREAM

By Kelly Bridgewater

Two weeks ago, I introduced you to my word for 2018. Last week, I shared how the first part of that word PURSUE is going to be used for the new year.

Today, I will talk about the second part.

I will use Psalm 45:1 to use how PURSUE is going to be used for my other part to guide my new year.

Psalm 45:1

" . . . My tongue is the pen of a ready writer."

I know I talk about writing all the time. Ways I need to write. What I plan to write, but I actually don't know much writing on my World War II suspense novels.

During NaNoWriMo, I actually wrote 50,000 words, and completed my NaNoWriMo writing goal. It felt awesome.

I loved the thrill of writing. The development of my characters. Allowing my imagination to roam free.

It was nice watching the characters interact and roam the world that I had created.

I'm tired of mentioning the writing that I plan to do and not actually doing it because there is always something in the way to stop me. I need to WRITE and pursue my dreams of writing. I'll never be published if I don't actually do the writing.

Even if that is what God wants me to do.

I will PURUSE my writing dream. The dream I had since I was a little girl. I think the desire to write stories came when I was ten years old. It has inched and buried itself for many years. I have never really allowed the desire to leave. It has sat there and festered since I was younger. I used to write during school after finishing my school work. I would write for hours when sitting at home.

Since I graduated high school, it got harder to create.

In college and graduate school, I majored in Writing, so I had more moments to write stories even with all the restrictions placed on my writing at a secular school.

I wrote three complete novels after graduate school, than my Daddy died, and I haven't written anything since. Well, until this past November.

Now I want to actually research and write my three World War II suspense novels.

I WILL write all three books this year. Even if they are trash, I will write them so that I feel better at using the talents, maybe not talents, that the Lord has given to me.

What about you? What are you going to PURSUE this year?

PURSUE GOD

By Kelly Bridgewater

Last week, I introduced you to the word for 2018 for me.

PURSUE.

Then I gave you the two verses.

Today, I'm going to talk about the first verses because my word PURSUE has two meanings for me this year.

Today, I'll explain how Philippians 4: 12- 14 has to do with 2018.

Here is the verse:

"Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things 

which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."

The main part of the verse that has to do with 2018 is the last part of the verses, "I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."

I will PURSUE God more than ever. Not that I don't spend every morning with the Bible, but I want to study more deeply. I want a life that memorize Scripture and tells more about Him. God has changed my life for the better, and I want to know more about Him.

In April, I plan to spend more time with Kristy Cambron's Verse Mapping system. Until then, I plan to spend time with some of the Old Testament Minor Prophets, learning more about what they have taught and prophesized for the future and Israel.

I plan to devour and enjoy my time with God. Treasure my moments with Him. Make them count for eternity.

What about you? Do you plan to pursue more time with God?

WORD FOR 2018

By Kelly Bridgewater

Have you heard of the One Word Resolution?

Instead of making a new year's resolution such as lose weight or bike to work, you would use a word to guide you for the new year.

Last year in 2017, my word was WAIT. I used Psalm 27:14 to guide me. It says, " Wait on the Lord 

Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your Heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord."

Waiting was really important for 2017.

I think it will continue until 2018, but I found a new word for 2018.

It is  . . .

PURSUE.

Come back for the next two weeks, and I will share my verses and how I plan to use Pursue.

Here are my verses:

Philippians 4: 12-14

"Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."

Psalm 45:1

" . . . My tongue is the pen of a ready writer."

What about you? Have you ever chosen a word for the new year?