A new year is a gift from God! Placing the gift in God's Mighty hands is a great start to having a fulfilled and satisfied year that brings honor and glory to God. Happy New Year Oasis of Hope friends! We pray this will be your best year yet!

Various secular studies indicate that the most successful people tend to use willpower, positive thinking, avoidance strategies and reinforcement management to keep their new year resolutions. In a 2022 article by Inc 5000 on making new year resolutions and productivity, it states that 91 percent of people won't achieve their new year's resolutions and provides some strategies to be part of the 9 percent of people that would. Similarly, in a 2016 Society for Personality and Social Psychology study, it states that 41 percent of Americans make new year's resolutions, but only 9 percent feel they were successful in keeping them.

For believers in Christ Jesus, we have a blue-print for life that assures believers no matter who you are; of a tested and proven path to having and living a fulfilled life every year that brings honor and glory to God. In this first episode of Oasis of Hope Podcast in 2025, Drs. Johnson and Feyi Obamehinti answer the question on best way to start out the year as a believer in Christ. They discuss what having a God-infused vision for all areas of life is about and how to effectively execute the vision. Take a listen to the 3 essential vision for life and the 3 ways to effectively execute them. Join us in prayer as we lift up the needs of our communities and place 2025 in God's capable hands! Happy New Year!