29/12/2025
🗑️ Remove the Baggage & Garbage of This Year — Enter the New Year in Freedom
You’ve been praying for a breakthrough and peace, yet nothing seems to shift.
Sometimes God is not asking you to change more, but to stop certain things.
🙅Habits that drain your strength.
🧠Minds that poison your faith.
👩🏻❤️💋👩🏼Relationships that pull you away from God.
❌✨Stop these 7 things to step into a better year ahead:
1. Stop trying to control everything
You ask God to move, but never give Him full authority. You were not created to solve every problem or play the savior. You can’t split the Red Sea — but when you obey, He will.
2. Stop feeding toxic thoughts
You cannot walk in freedom while feeding poison to your mind. Toxic thoughts become strongholds that imprison your identity in Christ.
3. Stop running from conviction
Conviction is not judgment — it is an invitation to change, healing, and freedom. Ignoring it hardens the heart and numbs the soul. Growth requires truth, and truth heals.
4. Stop settling for a spiritual comfort zone
We are not called to live comfortable lives but obedient lives. Not to look spiritual, but to live spiritual. Stop going around the same mountain. Your destiny is not in comfort, it’s in obedience.
5. Stop giving people God’s place
Don’t make people your idols. Don’t let their opinions define your identity. Don’t crave their presence more than God’s. The throne of your heart belongs to Him alone.
6. Stop making excuses for disobedience
Delayed obedience is still disobedience. You’ve already received confirmation after confirmation. Tomorrow is not promised. Say “yes” today.
7. Stop living like this world is your home
You were not created for this world, but for eternity. Don’t be overly invested in temporary things. This world is only an assignment. Start living for what is eternal.
🔥 He is calling you to a higher life.
Let’s be real.
Make this a fresh start — or a restart.
God bless you.
Ronald Stephen
Youth Pastor
Ronald Stephen
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