What is a Word of the year?
I’ve picked a word for the year for about 5ish years now. Some call it a guiding word or theme word for the year.
It’s essentially a word that reflects what your hopes or needs are for the year head. The word reflect the theme, or intentions for your year. It serves as a guide, a compass or a reminder of who you are becoming.
Ideally your word will tie into your goals and your bigger picture vision for your life.
The word you choose may represent way you want to grow, a word that challenges you for more. It could be a word that roots or grounds you in your beliefs and how you want to perceive and interact with your year.
I made this video some years back on how to choose your word of the year and in My VIP subscribers library I also have printables you can work through.
My Word of the Year
My word of the year is EXPANSION. This year I prayed more about my word and felt it needed to be more connected with my faith too.
I decided to look at the word in the Bible and in this video I share ore about what the word means, the Bible passages that anchor my word and my own journey this last year that led to this being my word.
The Hebrew word most connected to expansion or expand is enlarge, which appears 25 times in the Old Testament, is Rachab: to be or grow wide or large.
Strongs 7343 Rachab: To be wide, to be spacious, to enlarge
Bible passages:
Isaiah 54:2-3 King James Version
2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
1 Chronicles 4:9-10
9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez,[a] saying, “I gave birth to him in pain.” 10 Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request.
Resources
The New Strongs Exhaustive Bible Concordance (Available on most book stores)
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