Dear Readers:

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here it is, 2010, a new year! It is the beginning of a new decade. I am sure that by now many have made a long list of their new year’s resolutions, written important plans for this year, and have set amazing goals hoping to accomplish in 2010. And, I must not forget, the vow to exercise and lose weight! Well, I must indeed be faithful and earnestly do that too.

Now, I am sure that you’re wondering what I mean by “ 2010: THE END!” Most of you think that I’m predicting that this year is the end of this world. NO! NO! NO! Clearly there are a multitude of signs pointing to Christ’s soon return. Each day we are growing closer to this happening. However, God is dealing with me in a totally different way.

On New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2009, around 11:30 P.M., I was intensely speaking to God about 2010 concerning a few major things that I would like to do. I was just about to join Simmie in our bedroom to pray the old year out. This means to pray pass midnight thanking God for His blessings for what He did in 2009 and to praise Him for bringing us into the new year, 2010.

Well, as I was walking to our bedroom, God stopped me. He said, “Wanda, this is THE END for you carrying a lot of dead things on with you.” I listened. I stood right there in our hallway. Then He begin to speak again.

“Wanda, you cannot take some relationships (family and friends), hurts, disappointments, and the dead-end people over with you into 2010. I want you to end this NOW!”

That was it. I waited but God did not say anything. I waited. There was nothing. I waited. Nothing more was said. So, I went on to our bedroom to pray along with Simmie.

Later that night, when we went to bed, God spoke again to me.

“Wanda, You cannot carry the dead weight of things into this new year. Let go of things and people who are not going where you are going in your life,” He firmly said. “You can’t go where I want to send you and place you with those who are dragging you down emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

You have given them your life, encouraging words, and prayers. You have tried to motivate them with an outpouring of love. That has not helped them. You have embraced them with hugs. This has only smothered them because they are not seeking that.”

Days later, God spoke again. “Wanda, I want you to end the CPR that you have tried to give to others. Stop trying to pump their chest to revive them.

Then, I noticed on the front cover of a Christian magazine I was about to read,

A few days ago, I was watching television when I saw and heard the award-winning gospel artist, Kirk Franklin with his group sing, “I don’t want to hurt no more.”

While riding in the car, I was listening to the radio. I heard gospel award-winning gospel artist Bishop Hezekiah Walker singing a powerful new song, “Believe.” Every word of it ministered to my spirit. Then I heard the words, “fake friends” in this song and I clearly understood the message.

THE END

I’ve heard many say that the theme for 2010 is WE WIN! I had to think about that for a long while. Yes, we WILL WIN WHEN we release and end the dead-end relationships and toxic situations in our lives. Yes, we WIN when we can come to Christ with our heavy burdens and leave them there! Don’t look back at the past!

God told me, “ 2010: THE END!”

“... this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:13b-14 kjv).