I did my annual exercise today of reflecting on all my daily prayer journaling from this past year. It never ceases to surprise me how consistent God is in telling me what I need to hear, and yet I don’t always listen and respond.
This past year, there were about 13 consistent messages God was trying to tell me last year over and over again! They were things that would have moved my life forward in a positive way. Instead, I chose the path of resistance, fear, and same old.
One question from this past year resonated incredibly deeply with me: How are you cooperating (or not cooperating) with joy? I frankly think this was the question of the year for me.
Isn’t that the question for all of us who feel stuck and are not bearing the fruit we want to be? My guess is that God is trying to tell you something too, or many things, incredibly consistently. What He has to say may just be the path that moves you forward.
Like me, you may just be choosing to sit still and not respond… maybe it’s too hard, maybe it’s not what you want to hear, maybe it’s not what you expected. But regardless of how you feel about what God has to say, He said it!
Or maybe you haven’t a clue what God said to you this year. My suggestion: Write down your prayer insights in the next year so you can look back on them and see the patterns. This will help you better recall what God is saying to you consistently over time.
This incoming year, I have my calls to action… do you?
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