A Day in the Life of the Garsees: 2012: The Year of Promise

This post has been a long time coming! Fourteen days to be exact. ; )

I want to share something that God spoke to me for the New Year with you. When reading another ladies blog, she talked about getting a name/theme for each new year. Like what God wants to do with their family for that coming year or what to focus on. Koinonia (communion) or Eucharisto (thankfulness) are some of her themes.

After reading that post, I told God that i wanted Him to give me a theme too. I really liked that idea and want to begin to incorporate it into our life each year. So I began to pray and kept hearing the word promise but couldn't quite get what God was saying.

A few days later, a good friend of mine wrote me a message and told me that God was doing amazing things with Chase in Mexico. My response to her was, "Yes, yes yes! Amen! THIS is the year of PROMISE"

As I was typing it, I could feel the Holy Spirit's breath on it.

About three hours later, I decided to listen to a Bill Johnson teaching on the iBethel website. I went to their Sermons of the Week and you'll NEVER guess what the very first message for 2012 was titled!!!!
2012: The Year of Promise
I flipped out!!!!! I hollered, " Clinton, come up stairs quick!!!" So much excitement filled my heart and soul that God had confirmed His word to me. That this year was going to be a good year and one of overflow and promise!

2011 was a really hard year for me. I think it was a really hard year for many people, and I was glad to see it go and am so excited and expectant for what God has for us in 2012!

Not only am I excited for our family but I'm also excited for the body of Christ as a whole. I thought my word from the Lord was for our family only, but after hearing Bill's word I realized it was for the body of Christ as well! THIS really excited me as I have many friends who've struggled through 2011 too.

So let's put 2011 behind us believe God together for an amazing year filled with many promises!!

Changing gears just a bit, we brought in the New Year with one of the Thai families that we're very close to;(praying that they will give their hearts to Jesus soon).......We cooked together, ate Thai food to our hearts content, then brought in the new year popping fireworks.

Our dinner consisted of an amazing Thai salad made with green mangos over the top of fried fish, grilled chicken and pork, fried fish patties, fried rice, cucumbers marinated in a yummy sweet/spicy sauce! All of it was delicious and anything but traditional. But hey! our Christmas dinner was Pizza so we're breaking all the rules lately and liking the freedom to do so. ; )

Here's a few pictures so those of you in America can see just exactly what I'm talking about and see what you're missing out on. ; )