Fresh Start Effect | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | January 2, 2022
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🗓️ 2 January 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends and thanks for joining me for today's Our Daily Bread Devotional. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Sheridan Voizzi and I've titled today's encouragement, The Fresh Start Effect. |
| 0:15.0 | When Briani turned 30, she was sad to still be in a sales job she'd never liked. She decided it was time to stop |
| 0:22.4 | procrastinating and find a new career. For David, New Year's Eve had him looking in the mirror |
| 0:28.3 | vowing this would be the year he lost weight. And for James, it was watching another month pass |
| 0:33.6 | without his angry outbursts decreasing. Next month, he promised himself, he would try harder. |
| 0:40.5 | If you've ever vowed to change at the start of a new month, new year or a major birthday, |
| 0:46.0 | you're not alone. Researchers even have a name for it, the fresh start effect. They suggest |
| 0:52.3 | that at calendar points like these, we're more prone to assess our lives and try putting our failures behind us to start over. |
| 0:59.0 | Wanting to be better people, we long for a fresh start. |
| 1:03.0 | Faith in Jesus speaks powerfully to this longing, offering a vision of what our best selves can be, and calling us to leave our past selves behind. |
| 1:12.6 | It offers this change not by decisions and vows alone, but by divine power. |
| 1:18.6 | When we believe in Jesus, we become new people and God's Spirit works in us to make us whole. |
| 1:24.6 | Receiving salvation in Jesus is the ultimate fresh start, and it |
| 1:30.3 | doesn't need to wait for a special calendar date. Your new life can start right now. |
| 1:40.3 | Today's scripture reading is from Colossians chapter 3 verses 1 to 10. |
| 1:47.0 | Since then you have been raised with Christ. Set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. |
| 1:55.0 | Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. |
| 2:03.4 | When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. |
| 2:09.3 | Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature. Sexual immorality, |
| 2:14.7 | impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, |
| 2:21.0 | the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived, |
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