At the end of each year, as the Christmas season ends and January comes around, many people set out to make decisive life changes, endeavoring to accomplish certain goals to help them capture the dreams they believe in and desire the most.

At some point in our lives, we have all made a resolution to lose weight, get out of debt, spend more time with God, give up a bad habit, or anything else that forces us to make the sacrifices needed to shake up our daily routines to achieve what we know in our hearts is possible.

Change is never easy, and it requires dedicated consistency. Yet more often than not, these well-intentioned plans for the new year go unrealized as the discipline it requires to implement those changes dissipates and life goes back to normal. Before we know it, a brand-new year is on the horizon and it’s time to repeat the same cycle that will most likely end up as unsuccessful and unfruitful as the previous years before. 

This week, be encouraged that God cares more about the ending than He cares about the beginning. If this year didn’t begin well and wasn’t what you expected, there’s still plenty of time to see the promises of God for 2024 come to pass in your life! The Lord is interested in you finishing strong, so allow Him to help you get back on track if you have deviated from the path He laid out for you this year. 

Remember that as long as you have life in your body, it’s never too late with God! If you suffered setbacks, heartaches, or tragedies, God can turn those things around and make something beautiful out of what was meant to derail and harm you. 

This is still your year — make 2024 the best year of your life!

The verses below will activate your faith in the Lord and help you finish strong in 2024. Read them, think about them, and speak them into your life every day to keep your faith stirred and your expectations strong!

  • Hebrews 12:1,2 (NKJV): Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 
  • Galatians 6:9 (NKJV): And let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
  • James 1:2-5 (NKJV): My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 
  • 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NKJV): Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
  • 1 Corinthians 15:58 (NKJV): Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. 
  • Psalm 16:5,6 (NKJV): O Lord, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You maintain my lot. The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yes, I have a good inheritance.
  • Isaiah 40:28-31 (NKJV): Have you not known: have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
  • Psalm 138:8 (NKJV): The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever; do not forsake the works of  Your hands.