A Prayer to Search God’s Goal within the Yr Forward
By Heidi Vegh
Bible Studying:
“Of their hearts, people plan their course, however the LORD establishes their steps.” – Proverbs 16:9
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A brand new yr. A clear slate. I like the optimism of a brand new, contemporary yr simply ready to be lived. We regularly have so many plans for a brand new yr, resolutions or commitments for change, however in the end, God has a plan. He is aware of what lies forward, good and dangerous, and He is aware of how He’ll assist us navigate all of it. Searching 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 embody Him and should set you up for failure.
Searching for the Lord to your new commitments is a smart selection. He might want you to surrender issues as an alternative of including new issues which 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 function to your new yr. He is aware of the place you’ll go, who you’ll meet, and what you’ll do. Once we try to make our plans, we regularly fall quick with out the steerage of the Lord. It’s good to make plans and be ready, however we have to maintain these plans evenly.
Learn James 4:13-15 with me: “Now hear, you who say, ‘In the present day or tomorrow we are going to go to this or that metropolis, spend a yr there, keep it up enterprise and generate income.’ Why, you don’t even know what’s going to occur tomorrow. What’s your life? You’re a mist that seems for a short time after which vanishes. As an alternative, you must say, ‘If it’s the Lord’s will, we are going to stay and do that or that.’”
We by no means know what tomorrow holds. We don’t understand how lengthy now we have on this earth, so James is telling us to not brag about what we are going to do or the place we are going to 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 to your contemporary 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 need to go, and issues I need to do. Nevertheless, Lord, if they don’t seem to be ordained by you, I don’t need them. I need to observe you with each step. I decide to following your methods, even when it isn’t the place I need to go or I don’t perceive. I do know that you just created me with function. Deliver folks into my life to talk fact and path over me.
Communicate to me via your Phrase every day as I spend time with you. Present me issues and reveal issues to me; converse to my coronary heart. Deliver out the passions that you’ve planted in me and provides me artistic 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’re. 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 function for me. Thanks, Lord, to your fact, your sacrifice, and the forgiveness and beauty that I can stroll in day-after-day. Please, Lord, lead me to your function 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 residing 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 strategy to encourage others who’ve skilled loss and information them on the street 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 complicated household. She graduated from Southern New Hampshire College with a level in Inventive Writing and English and is engaged on her first e book. Heidi is the Ladies’s Ministry Director at her native church and has a deep coronary heart for sharing Jesus with girls and inspiring them of their religion stroll. When she will not be writing, she likes to journey, learn, craft, and experiment within the kitchen. Go to her Fb and Instagram (@mrsheidivegh) to be taught extra.
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