A brand new year is two weeks away. Can you see it, sitting on the horizon? How do you feel about it? Are you facing the new year with worry or hope? For many, it’s a mix of both.
The new year can be a time for hope or worry. Joy or sorrow. Satisfaction or regret. It can be a time for counting your blessings or picking up the pieces.
It’s all about perspective and choice. Let’s choose to see the new year as a clean slate. A time for hope and joy and expectation.
Whether you need personal encouragement or want to encourage others, keep reading. Today, I’m sharing 15 hope-filled Bible verses for the new year.
Let’s jump right in.
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Are You a Worrier?
Everyone can use encouragement from time to time. Wholesome, honest, biblical encouragement. Before we get to the Bible verses, I have a question for you:
Are you a worrier?
I worry about a lot of things because I overthink them. My work, my home, my relationships. My overthinking! That’s why I’m so grateful for how God sees me – not for who I am, but who I can become.
An encourager, not a worrier.
Calculating Without God
The dictionary defines worry as “anxious or troubled over actual or potential problems.” When we worry, we doubt God’s ability to work in our lives – and trust in our inability instead.
The great Scottish evangelist Oswald Chambers called this “calculating without God.” Are YOU calculating without Him?
God doesn’t want you to worry about daily concerns, or even the serious life issues. He doesn’t want you to overthink or try to figure things out on your own (Proverbs 3:5).
God wants you to trust Him. That’s it. He knows what you need for each day of your life. And He will provide for your needs according to His riches in glory (Philippians 4:19).
Bible Verses for the New Year
One of my goals for the new year is to drop “worry” from my vocabulary, heart, and mind. What about you? Are you ready to replace worry with hope?
Let’s ring in the year by meditating on the following Bible verses. This kind of meditation will help us build a better relationship with God and a deeper dependence on Him.
1. A New Creation
2 Corinthians 5:17 – “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
2. A New Heart
Ezekiel 36:26 – “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.”
3. A New Song
Psalm 98:1 – “Oh, sing to the Lord a new song! For He has done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm have gained Him the victory.”
4. A New Day
Lamentations 3:22-23 – “Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.”
5. A New Thing
Isaiah 43:19 – “Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
6. A New Hope
Jeremiah 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.”
7. Do Not Worry
Matthew 6:25 – “Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?”
8. Do Not Fear
2 Timothy 1:7 – “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
9. Don’t Be Anxious
Philippians 4:6 – “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”
10. Forget the Past
Philippians 3:13 – “But one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead.”
11. Rest Your Soul
Matthew 11:28-30 – “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”
12. Peaceable Fruit
Hebrews 12:11 – “Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”
13. Wait on God
Isaiah 40:31 – “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.”
14. God’s Plan
1 Corinthians 2:9 – “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
15. God’s Timing
Ecclesiastes 3:11 – “He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.”
Wrapping It Up
I hope you enjoyed reading these 15 Bible verses for the new year. Feel free to share them with your family, friends, neighbors, colleagues – anyone who needs encouragement and hope. And let’s thank God for His blessings this year – and ask Him to bless us in the coming year. ◻️
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Now It’s Your Turn
Thank you for reading my post. Now it’s YOUR turn to chime in. What things worry you about the year ahead? What gives you hope?
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Blessings, Annette
📋 NOTE – You are reading “15 Bible Verses That Will Give You Hope in the New Year.” An earlier version appeared on this blog in 2017. It has been updated for the Savoring Home community.
