New Song/ New Thing-My Words of the Year for 2025

For the last 2 years, I’ve adopted the powerful practice of choosing a word phrase for the year. My word(s) of the year for 2025 are: New Song/ New Thing. Keep reading to find out why.

Choosing my word of the year for 2025

When I choose a word/phrase for the year, I look for themes in my Bible study and any recurring messages the Lord is revealing to me. What is He trying to communicate? What verse, theme, or mindset is continuing to pop up everywhere I look? 

During the end of 2024, I continually noticed a similar theme. The theme of new song and new thing from two passages of scripture came to mind through my own Bible reading and listening to worship music and sermons. These messages of newness occurred at the same time the Lord began to do something new in my life at the end of 2024, a significant answer to prayer that had been a long time coming.

I knew God had new things in store for 2025, some I knew about, and others to be revealed as I leaned into God’s prompting and leading. 

New Song:

As I read in Psalms 40, verse 3 stood out to me and felt like the anthem of my heart at present. 

“He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD. “(Psalms 40:3, ESV)

I was ready for a new song, a song of joy, and to enter into a place of goodness in my life, a place of redemption. 

This verse was my heart’s prayer as I looked ahead toward my book’s publication in 2025. As I share its message for the caregiver of mental crisis, I pray many will have increased hope, resilience, and be given additional tools and knowledge to help them in their fight for the life of their loved one against suicidality. Sharing this message has been a way of redemption from the pain throughout our story. I pray many will have psychology tools from it and also will grab ahold of faith in God to make it through their own caregiving battle against mental crisis. I pray many will see, believe, and put their trust in God. 

In going through mental crisis caregiving, my faith in God was the anchor to my soul. It grounded me and guided me. God helped me as I tried to determine the right path ahead for treatment and care of my loved one. And so, this verse is a powerful declaration I too desire to come to fruition in my own life too. I am grateful to be able to share our story finally and declare what God did and how He got me through, got us through. 

Living Out the New Song through my book on mental crisis

May I continue to be brave and overcome hindrances as God leads. May I be wise in seeking His leading. Friends, I could use prayers to continue to speak on, write on, and share this message with others and not allow the enemy’s lies or attacks dissuade me from this calling. So many people are fighting a silent battle against suicide and haven’t told anyone. They need help to fight, treatment to work through underlying issues present (such as trauma), and hope. 

I wanted to invite you to partner with me in sharing this vital message with others by joining my email list for Choose Joy In the Midst. You will receive empowering content from a faith and psychology standpoint and have the ability to know when to pre-order my upcoming book for the caregiver of mental crisis.

To step into a new song is to step boldly, courageously. Will you be bold and courageous with me and talk about difficult mental health subjects in regular conversation? Will you take steps to decrease the stigma surrounding mental health issues in order to help people overcome and get better? You can do so by talking about it in regular conversations, learning risks of suicide and additional truths about suicide, and signing up for my book interest waitlist. People desperately need this message.

Thank you for your willingness to be a part of this message and movement towards helping others in the middle of crisis. 

New Thing

My second phrase for 2025 is ‘new thing’ out of Isaiah 43:19. 

“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” (Isaiah 43:19, NIV)

This verse has been a lifeline verse for me for many years. I have held onto its promise and whispered prayers of deliverance and new life in the midst of difficult and impossible circumstances.

As I look toward the rest of 2025, I am believing God for newness, for a new thing to spring forth, to be on the lookout for God’s redemptive, good work to come to fruition. I know He can be trusted, and I have seen His faithfulness through so many difficult circumstances prior to now.

New is coming to my life, to my heart, to my calling, this year. I will choose to step boldly into each new thing God leads me to, even when it is with uncertainty or a feeling of personal lack. When we feel unsure of our readiness for a new thing, it is exactly where God shows up mightily and shows His strength. Those moments don’t feel comfortable but are exactly where God needs us to be in how we feel so He can accomplish His best work. He works through ordinary, willing people who say yes to His calling, yes to being obedient to what He tells them to do.

And so, I am stepping into the new thing(s) this year, each one, with surrender and trust present. I will prepare to the best of my abilities and then trust God will lead the way and do what He desires with it.

How can you choose your own word of the year?

If you want to choose your own word of the year, it’s not too late to choose your own word or phrase for this year. The year isn’t over, and your life is growing and changing. You are being called to specific missions and ways of doing life—not of living statically and the same as you always have done. As my phrase of the year encourages, God is wanting to do new things within your life and my own. He is calling us to greater things. So, what phrase, theme, or mindset comes to mind as you reflect on the last many months or messages and themes you have been listening to? What mindset and theme do you need to focus on for the rest of this year?

Choose a word or phrase that resonates with current themes and a specific mindset for your present life. Allow yourself to be open to a message, lesson, or posture of your heart for a whole year in order to create intentionality and continual self-awareness. It brings awareness of how you approach your year and the decisions and activities within it. It helps align your goals for the year with that continual mindset and encourages yourself to confidently pursue life with that new view. A focused goal and mindset foster growth and openness to change.

I hope you are inspired in stepping into the new song or new thing which is maybe just a dream or idea right now… I know it isn’t easy to grow and pursue new changes, but it’s the way to see God do mighty things with our life… when we choose to trust Him and step out in faith. Let’s do it together!

-Amber

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