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Resolutions (one resident's thoughts on the new year)

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Resolutions (one resident's thoughts on the new year)
Friday, January 20, 2012

Bryant E. Culpepper, Sr. has
been a CPM tenant in Phila-
delphia since 2009.

Here we are once again in the new year. 2012... another year of those ol resolutions. “This year I’m going to lose weight, or I’m putting down the cigarettes, I’m cutting back on my spending,” on and on... But I’m here to tell you that it doesn’t matter the date on the calendar, or the ball dropping in New York at the strike of midnight on a new year; that this must be the year of change and everything is now going to be better.

A hundred new years can come and go, and people will still be announcing that same old resolution over and over again. And it will never come into a true fruition until you have made up in your mind that you are sick and tired of being sick and tired. It all starts in the mind. As a great preacher once stated, we must go into change, head first…your mind has to be truly renewed to conquer the giants that life is going to throw at you.

The Word! said the prodigal came to his senses. He found himself in the hog pens of life craving the very pods that the swine were eating. Life will have you stuck in some situations that you thought you’d never end up in. And until you change your old way of thinking, you will be doing things the same old way, getting the same old results, stuck! Back in the old year, talking about happy new year. Come on! Give me a break! ...change your mind!

Yes my beloveds, we must truly come to our senses and change our minds on to the new. New wine must be put into new wine skins. Because otherwise if the new wine is put into old skins that are unwilling to stretch, it will burst therefore causing the new stuff to be wasted. Are you hearing me? Don’t go into the year 2012 with 2011’s problems. No! Change that mess. And that change must first start in the mind. Because it’s in your mind that the enemy launches his attack.

And by only the grace of God, we can then begin to take control of our thinking and move head first, (somebody say, head first)… Pull yourself by your head and say, I’m coming out…I’m coming out…yeah, yeah… 2012 in itself is not the reason for the season that I’m coming out. No, not at all. The sole reason I’m coming out is because I’ve made up in my mind that I will indeed by the grace of God, my father, be a victor… I will win… I will marry… I will support my children… I will deny myself for the sake of another… I will give someone encouragement… I will be whatever He (God) wants me to be. And I say to that with all truthfulness… Happy New Year! in a new mind set…head first.

Now that’s the true resolution.

- Bryant E. Culpepper, Sr.

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