Many breathed a sigh of relief as 2009 became a memory! This past year was filled with economic hardships and challenges for many people worldwide. It’s a new year and many are hoping that 2010 will be better than 2009.

Each year at this time the headlines of the supermarket tabloids spew their earth shattering predictions for the coming year. This is a source of amusement and chuckles for me as I stand in the check-out aisle. The accuracy rate of the worlds ‘top psychics’ is less than 7%. If you were to guess random predictions, research has shown that your accuracy would well, you guessed it, be about 7%! Not only do the predictions of the world’s ‘blue ribbon’ psychics fail to materialize, they also miss foreseeing the major headlines of the year, ie London terror bombing, 2004 tsunami, hurricane Katrina, Haiti earthquake etc.

Here are some headline predictions that did not transpire:

• Wynonna Judd quit country music to become a women’s wrestler;
• Fidel Castro will be jailed after his government is overthrown in a massive revolt and will move to Beverly Hills.
• Nighttime joggers and cyclists began taking a drink that makes their skin glow bright green in the dark.
• Rising insurance costs (forced) the NFL to eliminate tackle football in favor of two-handed touch.
• Madonna will become “so concerned about the quality of children’s TV shows she buys the rights to the Mickey Mouse Club, revives the show and stars in it herself.”

As a believer how can we predict our future? The best way to predict our future is to create it!

Jesus said in Matthew 12:33-35 that our lives are like a fruit-bearing tree and that we could determine what the fruit of our lives would be. He said we could make the tree ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ From this passage we see that our hearts are a ‘spiritual womb’ nurturing our future. The condition of our hearts determines the quality of our lives. From the good treasures of your heart we can bring forth good. From the big treasure of our heart we can give birth to ‘big!’

Let me encourage you this year to sow God’s promises in your heart like never before. You are created to rule and reign in Christ! Read the following scriptures like this was the first time:

Matt. 12:33 “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. 34 Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things."

Rom. 5:17 "For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ."

God’s wants you to cooperative in His amazing dream for your life. Give Him something to work with. Plant a seed! Your future is in your heart. What seed are you planting today?

Jer. 29:11 "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."