Happy New Year!!
Every January it seems people make New Year’s resolutions – things they wish they could do better, or adding a new activity to their life routine. Well, I have two resolutions this year that I believe are attainable. The first one is to improve my prayer life. And the second, memorize more Bible verses.
As it is with most things, I do better if there is something or someone to help hold me accountable to my goals. So I have asked a friend to hold me accountable in prayer. Then I thought I would use my blog and whoever is reading this to help with my second goal of memorizing more Bible verses.
I have decided that every month I would post a new verse to memorize and some reasons why I have chosen that particular verse. I am hoping that everyone reading this will join me in these monthly challenges and post in the comment sections how they are memorizing the verse and let us all know when they have the verse memorized.
This month I have chosen a verse from the book of Daniel. As the year goes you will see a theme emerging from the verses each month. They will all be about the steadfast love of God. Steadfast love has been a word between me and God for a couple of months now. It’s a theme I hope to one day write my own bible study on! (Maybe you will see that in future posts!!)
Daniel 9:4 Says “I prayed to the Lord my God and made confessions, saying “O Lord the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love Him and keep His commandments.”
I love this verse! One, it ties into my desire to up my prayer life; and two, it speaks of God’s steadfast love. First, what would your year or my year look like if we approached prayer with a heart to confess how awesome God is, how He is a covenant keeper, and how He loves me with a steadfast love? Think about that for a moment. If in prayer, before we dive into our needs, fears, concerns, or whatever, we start with telling God how awesome He is and reflecting on His love for us, how would that change our hearts and attitudes? In the midst of struggles if I just cause myself to take a breathe and think about God and how good He is, how He loves me and will never leave me, how He will cause all things to work out for good, then I am filled with faith and a confidence to face whatever challenge lay ahead. I want to bring that into my prayer life this year. How about you?
I want God’s steadfast love to be the lens through which I do life this year! And what better place to start that than in my prayer life. So will you join me in this challenge? Would you take the time to memorize this verse and then apply it to your own life the way God leads? If you do, would you leave me a comment about your journey?
Let’s commit to making 2018 the year God reigns in every area of our lives. Let’s also commit to this being the year that we gain ground spiritually by memorizing more of the Word so when we have battles we can pull out the sword of the spirit which is the word of God and wield it triumphantly in battle!
Will you join me?
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