What Does God Have Planned for You in 2025?

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. Jeremiah 29:11

How are you preparing to step into your new season in 2025? We must facilitate well coming to the end of 2024 and position ourselves for God’s amazing, successful plan, which He wants to unfold for us in 2025.

First, reflecting on God’s goodness and giving Him thanks for 2024 is essential. God’s faithful love endures forever (Psalm 100:5; 136:1‒25).

Let’s look back over this past year to remember and proclaim the wonderful things the Lord has done for us personally as well as in all the nations of the world. It’s a time to rehearse our victories and miracles! We choose to thank God regularly and praise Him for the victories in our lives, especially during this season. We must not become so immersed in the difficulty we have experienced or are currently experiencing that we forget the miracles and victories the Lord has done!

Next, we must let go, laying down those things that no longer serve us so we can grab onto the bigger and better things—the new things God has for us in 2025. Therefore, it is important to reflect on and process any adverse events we experienced in 2024 (e.g., hurts, failures, broken relationships, etc.) so we can release them to God, allow His healing, and apply any valuable lessons we learned.

We can revisit the past to examine our choices and how they affected our identity in Christ (e.g., we are chosen, beloved, accepted, forgiven, sons and daughters, etc.). Our souls’ enemy, Satan, tries to change our beliefs about who God says we are by using our thoughts and emotions. We need to cast out any thoughts from our minds that don’t line up with the Word of God and what God says about us (2 Corinthians 10:4–5; Romans 12:2). We will need to renounce any lies we have believed and go to the Word of God and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal the truth so we can receive it and replace the lies of the enemy we believed. Then, meditate on God’s Word and guard your heart (Philippians 4:8; Proverbs 4:20–23).

We need to have the Word of God in our souls to discern what we hear and know when the Holy Spirit is speaking because it will agree with what is written. Revelation comes from the Holy Spirit, who dwells in the believer’s spirit (Romans 8:9‒11). We can’t look for solutions from the soul (mind, will, and emotions) or intellect. It doesn’t have the answers, strategies, and wisdom we need. When we pray in the Spirit (praying in tongues—a gift of the Holy Spirit; 1 Corinthians 12:4‒11), the Holy Spirit brings the revelation we need to move forward.

God wants to heal all of our deepest hurts, even the ones we don’t know about. We must prepare for our next season by releasing the past from our souls. We can’t live in the past with regrets, unforgiveness, resentment, and bitterness. We must deal with these things because they will affect our present and future.

You can’t heal a wound by saying it isn’t there. Our soul wounds don’t only affect us but can affect anyone around us. Let Jesus heal your soul wounds. Let your soul’s inner healing occur by the Spirit of God flooding your innermost being. We can also ask for help and support from a loving, trusted friend or counselor. We don’t focus on the problem but on God, who has the answer. God knows the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:9–11).

(Please see the section on healing our souls in my new book, Jesus The Healer, available in both Kindle e-book and paperback formats at https://amazon.com/author/alexiscarucci.

Hope is an anchor for our soul, expecting good things from God. Hope is to the soul what water is to the body; it overcomes pain and paralyzing fear. We need to live in the secret place (Psalm 91:1), keeping ourselves strong for our journey. Ask God to heal your soul and return to faith to believe in your future.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1

We can make choices to shift and align with God’s plan for our lives. Part of letting go is surrendering to the Lord and trusting Him with our hearts (Proverbs 3:5‒6). We must draw near to Him first and let go of our plans and expectations to do God’s plan and let God have His perfect way (James 4:7‒8).

He is a good Father and has good things for us. We are fully known, loved, and accepted. He blesses us as we follow His plan and fulfill His purposes in our lives.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. James 1:17

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28

Now, let’s start preparing for a prosperous and blessed New Year! One way to do this is to review the prophetic words you have received this past year and prophesy about your year 2025. We can thank the Lord for what He has done in 2024 and ask Him what we need to do to align with His will and purposes for our lives in 2025. Matthew 7:7–8 says that when we seek and ask the Lord, He will show us.

Prophecy is God’s expressed thoughts (accessing God’s heart, mind, will, and voice) spoken in a known language/tongue to build up people, including us! Prophecy is hearing God’s voice and telling someone what He wants to say (1 Corinthians 14:3).

We need relationship and revelation to access the things of God. A relationship with God begins with receiving Jesus into our hearts as Savior. It continues to grow as we spend time with Him by reading and studying His Word, praying and worshipping Him as we surrender to His Lordship, learning to trust Him, and walking in the Spirit.

Prophecy consists of three parts: revelation, interpretation & application. It includes hearing, speaking, and seeing what God is saying. It may be received and expressed by spoken words, writing, senses or inklings, dreams, visions, angel visitations, songs, a Rhema Word, demonstrative action (doing something in the natural that releases something in the spiritual), etc.

Prophecy must be within God’s and Christ’s character and nature and must not conflict with the Word of God. We must know the source and discern the voice of God correctly. We must be careful about how we listen. (1 Samuel 16:6‒7).

When your eyes are focused on Jesus and tuned to the flow of the Holy Spirit, the first impression or spontaneous thought you hear is usually the Holy Spirit. Sometimes, God has spoken to us through seeing, hearing, sensing, feeling, or perceiving, but we don’t know it (Job 33:14‒18). Spending time in His presence and Word sharpens our ability to hear His voice and to know His ways, character, and nature.

Pastor Mike Scherer of Dunamis Ministries in Los Gatos, California, recommends the following for prophesying our year:

Get alone with God in a quiet place, turning off all distractions. Ask the Lord what He has planned for you in 2025, what you need to be aware of, and what needs more attention or cultivation. Ask Him what is happening in your relationships, how you can pray or prophesy over them, etc.

Next, write down what you hear the Lord say or show you (a picture or vision in your mind), then speak them over yourself in faith because we prophesy according to our faith (Romans 12:6). Go back throughout the coming year and review them to see what has come to pass and what may still be to come. Continue to ask the Lord what you must do to partner with Him to bring these things He has told you to pass.

I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying that He is bringing breakthroughs and restoration to you in 2025. God is restoring finances and relationships. He is reconciling you and your family.

As we enter 2025, I pray that you will have a more profound revelation of the Father’s love, goodness, and faithfulness through Jesus Christ and continue to draw upon His strength and grace as you draw closer to Him.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13

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