How do you create intention for your year? Do you set goals or create a vision board? Do you make a list or have a specific mantra to carry you through it? I kind of do all of the above, and there really is no one way to do it. I am pretty detail and goal oriented, so I like being able to visualize my year in multiple different ways. One thing I really have grown to love is having a word of the year. I personally started this practice about three years ago. First it was “fearless” then it was “unstoppable” and last year was “abundance.”
Your word for the year matters because it is what you are believing God for. Your word is powerful. It provides you with a little guide and can also be something to fall back on to get recentered. 365 days is a long time, so having a specific word to pray over your life can really be transformative. It can also deepen your faith and bring you closer to God.
Choosing a word is not always easy. It can be, but it also might take you a little time and that is okay. My word this year definitely took a minute to come to me. The biggest thing you can do to find your word would be to set aside some quality time with God. Be in His presence. Talk to Him and ask Him what your word should be. When it hits you, it might just make you cry like mine did this year.
One Sunday in particular, our church was singing a new song that they had recently written called Jireh. This is the kind of song that stops you in your tracks and takes your breath away. As soon as I heard what song it was, I began to cry. Immediately my word for 2021 came to me. I knew that it was straight from God. It is in those moments when I feel truly blessed and loved because I know that He is calling out to me by name.
God whispered, “enough.” Daughter, you are enough. What you do is enough. Who you are is enough. I am enough because He is enough. The whole year of 2020 as I believed in God for abundance, I lost sight of enoughness. My inner critic has been coming for my throat the last few weeks, everything screaming at me trying to make me believe that I am not enough, so much so that I started to really listen to it.
In 2021, I need to rest in the fact that He is enough. I have everything that I need because of Him. Where God guides, He provides. The Lord always provides for me. He has my back. He is for me. He is with me. He will never leave me and that is enough. His presence is enough. His love is enough and I am worthy of it. Jesus, you are enough for me. I am believing you. I am believing in your love for me. Every single day I am enough for God. Every day He has all that I need.
In 2021, I want to live everyday knowing just how enough I am. In order to do that, I must lean on God daily. I need time with Jesus. I do not want to lose sight of His promise for my life. Each day I want to ask myself “how are you going to live like you are enough? Do these thoughts/feelings/actions align with your enoughness?” I have realized that I have struggled my entire life with never feeling like I was enough.
2021 is the year of enough.