A Prayer to Search God’s Objective within the 12 months Forward
By Heidi Vegh
Bible Studying:
“Of their hearts, people plan their course, however the LORD establishes their steps.” – Proverbs 16:9
Pay attention or Learn Beneath:
A brand new yr. A clear slate. I really like the optimism of a brand new, recent yr simply ready to be lived. We regularly have so many plans for a brand new yr, resolutions or commitments for change, however finally, God has a plan. He is aware of what lies forward, good and unhealthy, and He is aware of how He’ll assist us navigate all of it. Looking for God within the yr is a superb place to start out with our new plans. He doesn’t need you to make new resolutions or commitments that don’t embrace Him and should set you up for failure.
Looking for the Lord on your new commitments is a smart selection. He might want you to surrender issues as an alternative of including new issues that will overwhelm you. He might want you to easily belief Him extra or spend extra time with Him. Earlier than overcommitting your self, search God. Search His plan and goal on your new yr. He is aware of the place you’ll go, who you’ll meet, and what you’ll do. After we attempt to make our plans, we frequently fall brief with out the steerage of the Lord. It’s good to make plans and be ready, however we have to maintain these plans flippantly.
Learn James 4:13-15 with me: “Now pay attention, you who say, ‘Immediately or tomorrow we’ll go to this or that metropolis, spend a yr there, keep it up enterprise and earn a living.’ Why, you don’t even know what is going to occur tomorrow. What’s your life? You’re a mist that seems for a short while after which vanishes. As an alternative, you must say, ‘If it’s the Lord’s will, we’ll dwell and do that or that.’”
We by no means know what tomorrow holds. We don’t know the way lengthy we now have on this earth, so James is telling us to not brag about what we’ll do or the place we’ll go as a result of there may be merely no assure. It’s higher to say, ‘Whether it is God’s will, I’ll…’ That is an act of belief as we give up our plans to the Lord for the brand new yr.
Let’s Pray:
Lord, thanks for this new yr. Thanks on your recent beginnings and a clear slate. Thanks for the breath in my lungs and sunshine within the sky. I commit this yr to you Lord. I pray that you just shield my life and the lifetime of my household. I pray that we generally is a gentle for you on this darkish world. Lord, I’ve so many concepts and plans for this new yr, locations I wish to go, and issues I wish to do. Nonetheless, Lord, if they aren’t ordained by you, I don’t need them. I wish to comply with you with each step. I decide to following your methods, even when it isn’t the place I wish to go or I don’t perceive. I do know that you just created me with goal. Carry individuals into my life to talk fact and course over me.
Converse to me via your Phrase day by day as I spend time with you. Present me issues and reveal issues to me; communicate to my coronary heart. Carry out the passions that you’ve planted in me and provides me inventive methods to make use of them. Assist me to flush out something in my life that isn’t glorifying you and assist me to surrender actions and practices that don’t align with who you might be. Give me robust convictions for what I watch and who I spend time with. Please present me what’s in my life that might hinder your goal for me. Thanks, Lord, on your fact, your sacrifice, and the forgiveness and charm that I can stroll in each day. Please, Lord, lead me to your goal for my life this new yr.
In your treasured identify, Jesus, I pray, amen.
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Heidi Vegh is a author, speaker, and ministry chief dwelling in Western Washington. She is a remarried mom of 4, navigating the blended household life after the lack of her first husband to most cancers in 2013. She longs to make use of her writing as a solution to encourage others who’ve skilled loss and information them on the highway to therapeutic. She contributes to her weblog discovered at www.mrsheidivegh.com , sharing tales and devotionals of religion stemming from her loss and therapeutic, mothering, and her blended and sophisticated household. She graduated from Southern New Hampshire College with a level in Artistic Writing and English and is engaged on her first ebook. Heidi is the Girls’s Ministry Director at her native church and has a deep coronary heart for sharing Jesus with ladies and inspiring them of their religion stroll. When she shouldn’t be writing, she likes to journey, learn, craft, and experiment within the kitchen. Go to her Fb and Instagram (@mrsheidivegh) to study extra.
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