Ps 65:9-13, Thou dost visit the earth, and cause it to overflow; Thou dost greatly enrich it; The stream of God is full of water; Thou dost prepare their grain, for thus Thou dost prepare the earth. Thou dost water its furrows abundantly; Thou dost settle its ridges; Thou dost soften it with showers; Thou dost bless its growth. Thou hast crowned the year with Thy bounty, And Thy paths drip with fatness. The pastures of the wilderness drip, And the hills gird themselves with rejoicing. The meadows are clothed with flocks, And the valleys are covered with grain; They shout for joy, yes, they sing. 
As we stand together on the cusp of a new year, we need to recognize that our plans and our ideas and our intentions for what we hope will happen, or what we fear might happen, or what we foresee as possible in this quickly approaching span of time needs to be fully committed to The Lord. He has it all well in His hands. He is the One Who rules over the course of this and every span of time as He is the Creator of both time and space. 
Nothing catches Him by surprise, as it so catches us. This is because He has ordained and put forth His plan and purpose within each second of each minute of each day of each week of each month of each year. It all flows forward in full accordance with His Sovereignty fully in evidence. 
He is the One Who crowns each year with His manifest presence and purpose and design. It is all being fulfilled to the praise and honor and glory of His Name. In that commitment of all unto Him, there is rejoicing and echoing shouts of adoration from the depth of creation unto Jehovah. He causes all things to work together for good and fullness and completeness in Him.
Yahweh speaks forth and the earth and all that is in it responds with gladness and utmost rejoicing at the delightful and awesome sound of His voice. He thunders forth in majesty and power from the seat of Heaven’s throne. 
In this truth, we need to set aside anything that is not in line with His glory being substantiated in the lives that we live obediently unto Him. We also do not fear whatever this year may hold. This is because we trust Him explicitly to do in full accordance with His will, everything that He ordains for our lives in this approaching time. His way, His paths of righteousness drip with the fatness of His abundant provision and sustenance.
As we read in Ps 25, verses 8-10, Jehovah uses those ordained paths of each year to instruct His created ones in the way in which we are to walk throughout the time allotted manifestly unto us. We are the recipients of His righteous and just dealings in terms of learning more and more about Him and the miraculous relationship that is ours in Jesus Christ.
Ps 25:8-10, Good and upright is the Lord; Therefore He instructs sinners in the way. He leads the humble in justice, And He teaches the humble His way. All the paths of the Lord are lovingkindness and truth To those who keep His covenant and His testimonies. 
As each year unfolds into the decades and centuries of the walk of humanity on this earth with Our God, there is the complete desire in the hearts of His people that God is blessed and given the adoration that He, Alone, is due. It becomes the focal reality of our time before Him as mortal beings, to declare His goodness and His praise and His honor. This is as each year shows forth the multiplying majesty of His so great heart of love in action in the lives of His beloved people. 
As so detailed in 2 Chron 6:41, consider the splendor unto The Lord that is infused in the hearts of those who want to so reverence Yahweh, The Lord God Almighty. There is expressed the utmost desire that God would receive the satisfaction and rest through what needs to be accomplished within the hearts and lives of His chosen ones.
2 Chron 6:41, Now therefore arise, O Lord God, to Thy resting place, Thou and the ark of Thy might; let Thy priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let Thy godly ones rejoice in what is good. 
The Psalmist, in Ps 103:1-5, encourages us with the way in which we are to consider each year in the terms of the loving kindness of God. We are to recall to ourselves and to declare to others the goodness and the faithfulness and the blessings of the Lord! This is in a way that will put the focus and the praise and the adoration and the thanksgiving upon Him. 
Ps 103:1-5, Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget none of His benefits; Who pardons all your iniquities; Who heals all your diseases; Who redeems your life from the pit; Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion; Who satisfies your years with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle. 
Notice within this passage the reality that The Lord satisfies our years with all the good things that are a result of our living and obedient walk with Him. We are to remember, remember in the way that brings to the central essence of our hearts and minds all that God has done, is doing, and faithfully will accomplish in the course of each year as it passes away from us. 
We are not to concentrate on what we do not have and never will have. We are to recount the manifold blessing of God’s awesome hand upon us and upon our loved ones. We are to bless Him with those hearts and lives which reflect the rejoicing that we belong to Him. We are to gratefully acknowledge that He has all things in our lives well in His Hands.
The Psalmist continues this avenue of encouragement in Ps 104:24-34, with the reality that the whole earth belongs to Jehovah. His Creative Majesty is infused into the manifested landscape of that which is His perfect and magnificent design. He holds the entire universe within His grasp and meets the every need of every living thing that He has given life. 
He does so with all His wisdom and compassion and tender mercy so that the whole of His creation declares His glory and His praise. For that wondrous and miraculous giving and sustaining of life, we are to fill each new year with the songs of His praise and adoration with excitement to see what He will bring forth in His time.
Ps 104:24-34, O Lord, how many are Thy works! In wisdom Thou hast made them all; The earth is full of Thy possessions. There is the sea, great and broad, In which are swarms without number, Animals both small and great. There the ships move along, And Leviathan, which Thou hast formed to sport in it. They all wait for Thee, To give them their food in due season. Thou dost give to them, they gather it up; Thou dost open Thy hand, they are satisfied with good. Thou dost hide Thy face, they are dismayed; Thou dost take away their spirit, they expire, And return to their dust. Thou dost send forth Thy Spirit, they are created; And Thou dost renew the face of the ground. Let the glory of the Lord endure forever; Let the Lord be glad in His works; He looks at the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smoke. I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. Let my meditation be pleasing to Him; As for me, I shall be glad in the Lord. 
The next one to whom we will turn for encouragement in the goodness of God in this coming year is the Prophet Joel. Please open to Joel 2, verses 21-29 as this man of God declared the fact that we are to find ourselves in utter joy and gladness before the Lord. This is as He works to show Himself mighty and breathtaking and splendid in each year of our lives. There is a truth that those who know the goodness and the grace and the refreshment of the power of Jehovah will proclaim it in the assembly of His beloved people. 
Yes, we will have those years of draught and heat and devastation. However God will always prove Himself mighty and awesome to provide everything that is needed as each year proceeds.
Joel 2:21-29, Do not fear, O land, rejoice and be glad, For the Lord has done great things. Do not fear, beasts of the field, For the pastures of the wilderness have turned green, For the tree has borne its fruit, The fig tree and the vine have yielded in full. So rejoice, O sons of Zion, And be glad in the Lord your God; For He has given you the early rain for your vindication. And He has poured down for you the rain, The early and latter rain as before. And the threshing floors will be full of grain, And the vats will overflow with the new wine and oil. "Then I will make up to you for the years That the swarming locust has eaten, The creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust, My great army which I sent among you. "And you shall have plenty to eat and be satisfied, And praise the name of the Lord your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you; Then My people will never be put to shame. "Thus you will know that I am in the midst of Israel, And that I am the Lord your God And there is no other; And My people will never be put to shame. "And it will come about after this That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and daughters will prophesy, Your old men will dream dreams, Your young men will see visions. "And even on the male and female servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days. 
We close this morning, at the edge of this human delineation of time in the course of our walk on this earth, with the Prophet Malachi. He sets forth the encouragement for the management before God of all the bounty that He provides as the year flows forth. There is that need in every one of us to be honoring to the Lord with the harvest that He provides. Please open to a passage that should be well-known to us as the stewards of all that Jehovah lavishes forth for the care of His people. Mal 3:10-12 contains the encouragement of God to those who will listen and obey. 
Mal 3:10-12, "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this," says the Lord of hosts, "if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows. "Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it may not destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes," says the Lord of hosts. "And all the nations will call you blessed, for you shall be a delightful land," says the Lord of hosts. 
What needs to be understood, as we face the course of this opportunity to bless the Lord, is that it is with hearts that recognize the call that is set upon everyone who receives of His bounty. We are responsible unto God Almighty for how we steward that which is entrusted unto us. Nothing we receive is to be considered as belonging to us. It is all His to use through us in the every manner that is honoring to His call to bring the marginalized of our society into His house, into relationship with The Father.
We are stewards, given charge over the resources that He supplies to meet the needs of any and all whom He brings into our lives. We receive everything with that recognition in our hearts and in our minds. God does supply our every need, but He does so with the lavish richness of His heart of love which seeks to bring in the outcasts, the hurting, the orphan, the widow, the disenfranchised and the rejected of our world. 
When we grow into that knowledge that everything He provides truly does belong to Him, we make that tithe of 10% simply as the signification that we understand and accept it all as His to use as He so deems fit and necessary. It is the manner in which we put forth, with joy and thanksgiving, the truth that our tithe is representative that it all belongs to God to do with as He so makes known. It is not something that is done with resignation and with any thoughts of being punished or deprived if we fail to so honor Jehovah. 
Rather, because we so love Him, we freely and fully honor Him with the tithe and gifts, joyfully showing Him that He is worthy, not just of 10%, but of everything we have and are and will do before Him and before all mankind. 
Our tithes, along with those gifts of gratitude celebrate His goodness year in and year out. It proclaims that He is Lord of every aspect of our lives with hearts that seek to honor Him all the more fully and freely and manifestly. It is the practical demonstration of our love and respect and adoration of The Lord with a heart of thanksgiving and honor and praise for all His goodness as each year flows forth into the next. So be it! 
Thou hast crowned the year with Thy bounty, And Thy paths drip with fatness. Amen.

This morning’s benediction is Ps 119:50. This is my comfort in my affliction, That Thy word has revived me. Amen.