Happy New Year, my friends and welcome to 2020! Are you excited about a brand new year with endless possibilities? I know that I am. Are there things you want to do differently this year than last? Me, too. Let’s work on that together.
Contemplating the next twelve months, what would you like to accomplish? Do you have things you really yearn to do or maybe stop doing? I think some people call that resolutions.
Since I am a list maker, I took pen in hand and began. My list started and soon became overwhelmingly long. Immediately I felt discouraged. I would encourage you to keep yours challenging but still attainable. Don’t begin the year feeling defeated. Asking God to hone your 2020 aspiration list will make it perfect for you.
Tell me, do you have a strategically crafted plan to fulfill your dreams for this year? The first thing on that list should be to pray for that plan. Ask God to show you what to do and how to do it. That is what I intend. With His help it will be much easier.
Scripture tells us in Psalm 32:8 “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.”
I find the above bible verse comforting. God, the Creator, will teach me what I need to know to accomplish my plans. Really? Me? God cares enough about me to do that? Absolutely, and He cares that much for you, also. He might place people in my life that will be able to help me. Perhaps a book or article will be brought to my attention. The ways He will help you and me are limitless.
My challenge for you for 2020 is to pray.
I want to challenge you to join me this year. Commit yourself to daily pray over your 2020 goals. Adopt a system using a prayer jar or journal. Record your specific prayer requests in a prayer journal or place them in a prayer jar. As your prayers are answered and results seen, make notes by the request.
Besides praying for yourself, add 20 people to your list. Ask God to place those people on your heart for prayer. Place these names after your list or in your jar. Each day lift one or all of these people up to our Heavenly Father. Maybe you are praying for health, healing, salvation, or financial issues. Perhaps you don’t even know why Abba brought this person to your mind. Just intercede for them in prayer.
Get a Prayer Partner
A prayer partner is someone that will be there for you to take your requests, thanks, and praises to God. My prayer partner lives many, many miles away but is ready within a few minutes of a text to pray. There is a deeper level of prayer coming before Jehovah with another Christian. She keeps me accountable, too. If you do not currently have a prayer partner, I would encourage you to try it. Ask at church or in your circle of friends. Better yet, ask God to send you one.
Let me know if you accepted my challenge and how you are doing. I’d love to hear if you are using a prayer journal or prayer jar. As always, if you have a prayer request for me, leave it below and I will most assuredly pray. Thanks for spending some time with me today.
Philippians 4:6 “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.”
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