“My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words. Don’t lose sight of them. Let them penetrate deep into your heart.” (Proverbs 4:20-21)

How are you doing with your New Year’s Resolutions so far?

Let’s review what we’ve learned so far about making and keeping them.

• We wait for the Lord to give us a vision or revelations.
• We write it (them) down.
• We formulate resolutions based on the revelations.

I must admit that I haven’t received a whole lot more since the initial burst of revelations that kept flowing at such a rapid pace that I had to type really fast to get them all down!

I did get more clarity on some of them, even specific details about one of them. So, yes, there was some progress.

Take heart, progress is a process. As long as you make time for the process, there will be progress!

So, keep pressing in and allow the Holy Spirit to release the revelation and help you formulate the resolution.

Now what?

This DWOD contains a key revelation that will virtually guarantee that resolutions you make will be kept.

It comes to us courtesy of the wisest man in the Old Testament, King Solomon himself.

Are you ready for it?

The first step, as we have learned already, is to listen carefully to our Father.

We listen with our ears, and as Habakkuk mentioned, we also “watch to see what He says.”

Our ears and eyes are gates through which we allow words, thoughts, ideas to enter our mind.

However, the most effective resolutions do not reside in our minds alone. They need to find a home in our hearts.

Solomon says that we need to “let them penetrate deep into our hearts.”

How do we accomplish this?

The wise king comes to our rescue: “Don’t lose sight of them.”

In other words, keep them in front of you all the time.

Jesus said: “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” (Matthew 12:34)

That is why Solomon goes on to say: “Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. Avoid all perverse talk; stay away from corrupt speech.” (Proverbs 4:23-24)

The two wisest people in the Bible reiterate that what we allow to enter our hearts is what will eventually come out of us and determine whether we succeed or not.

So, let’s apply this truth to our newly formulated resolution.

Just as we wrote down the revelation earlier, so also now we write down the resolution.

Then we ensure that we “don’t lose sight of it.”

It could be as simple as printing it out and placing the printed sheet of paper in a prominent place where you will be exposed to it over and over again.

For some of us, this may be the fridge 🙂 For others it may be a bulletin board directly in front of your face in your workspace, desk, den or other location.

The graphic accompanying this revelation shows how you can use today’s technology to keep your resolution in front of you always—as wallpaper on a cellphone, tablet, laptop or desktop.

No matter how you choose to do it, the principle is still the same. Once you’ve made your resolutions, “Don’t lose sight of them.”

Keep them in front of you.

Read them at least once a day.

Let them “penetrate deep into your hearts.”

You will be amazed at how well you are able to keep the New Year’s Resolutions that you make in 2013.