7 Powerful Bible Verses to Memorize for the New Year

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With a new year, why not learn new Bible verses? Here are 7 powerful Bible verses to memorize for this and every New Year ahead.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come – 2 Cor 5:17

When we are born again, or literally, born from above by an act of God (John 1:12-13, 3:3-7; 1 Pet 1:23), we become children of God. We are no longer children of the Devil as most still yet are in this world, held captive by the Prince of Darkness (2 Cor 4:3-4). Old things should start to pass away like old ungodly habits, but it takes time. Anything new takes time for the old man or fleshly nature shows up quite often at my door.

Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert – Isaiah 43:18-19

It’s hard to forget our past sins or mistakes or lies. We must confess them to God and to the person we offended, but once that’s done, we should not keep remembering the former things that God has forgiven. God is doing a new thing in us by His Spirit and even in the parched wilderness in the desert.  God doesn’t tell us, “Do  your best and hope you make it,” but says, “I will make a way.” 

Even in the parched wilderness, God “will make a way.” 

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths – Prov 3:5-6

Trust or faith means we believe without seeing, as in our belief in Jesus Christ whom we have never seen. Even so, we do believe, but we trust in God, not in our own understanding. He will straighten the path as long as we acknowledge Him and give Him the glory for the all the good blessings in our lives. Anything we are successful at, we must acknowledge God as the reason and source of all that is good.

To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness – Eph 4:22-24

Notice that we must take some action and not “let go and let God.” We are commanded to “put on the new self,” meaning it doesn’t happen naturally. We must battle the flesh daily. Again, we must be proactive and “put off [the] old self which belongs to your former manner of life.” The only way this is possible is God working in us and through us, being renewed daily by His Word and His Spirit (Rom 12:1-2).

Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them – Psalm 139:16

God has every day you will ever live recorded and already predetermined. Astounding, I know, but true. Job understood that our “days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass” (John 14:5). Since this is true, we must live out every day for the glory of God, knowing any of them could be our last. Live every day like it’s your last day on earth.

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus – Phil 3:13-14

These verses are from what is called “The Joy Epistle,” or the Book of Philippians. No one runs a race looking backward. That’s dangerous and just like driving a car by looking rearview mirror too often. We don’t look back but press ahead…our goal of the Kingdom should make us strenuously strain forward toward the finish line. Right there He is waiting for you and for me.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope – Jer 29:11

Horace Vernet, Jeremiah on the ruins of Jerusalem (1844).

If we take this verse in the context in which it was written, we see that it was written by Jeremiah the Prophet. He wrote this to restore the hope of the Jews who had been taken into captivity by the Babylonians. Their future looked hopeless and grim. Their home was impossibly far away…but God had told Jeremiah the Prophet that there was still yet hope. Jeremiah knew the Jews would return after 70 years of exile so he told them that God still had plans for them and had not forsaken them. And He still has plans for you too if you’re breathing. These plans may end up being painful, but we know that God will work out all these things for our very best (Rom 8:28). In Jesus Christ, we truly do have “a future and a hope.” Amen?

Conclusion

I pray you have put your trust in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. If that has not happened yet, my friend, you are in real danger of hell fire. And I mean, in immediate danger. You’re one breath, one heartbeat…one accident away from eternity when it will be too late to repent. Today is the best day to believe (2 Cor 6:2) since tomorrow is no guarantee. If Jesus Christ came today, here is your fate (Matt 7:21-23). This is why I plead with you as you read this, repent today…and I mean right now. Put your trust in Jesus Christ. If you do not, you will face God’s judgment after death guaranteed (Heb 9:27) or at Jesus Christ’s appearance (Rev 20:12-15), which could happen at any moment.

Here is some related reading for you: 7 Great Bible Verses for the New Year

Resource – Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version^® (ESV^®), Crossway Bibles. (2007). ESV: Study Bible: English standard version. Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Bibles. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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