Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Or, soon to be a new year. I’ve seen tons of memes about this coming year being 20/20. As I’ve reflected on that, I thought, “How can I go through this next year with 20/20 vision?”

I’m going to try and start praying without ceasing like the Apostle Paul tells us to do. I’ve been doing it more and more, but I’m going to make prayer my first reaction to everything. When I’ve lost something, I’m going to pray about it. When I’m scared, I’m going to pray about it. I’m going to pray for the big things and the little things.

“Pray without ceasing,” 1 These. 5:17

I’m getting too old to waste time. I’m going right to the source of all my strength – God. Only He knows the future. And only He he has the power to do anything about it.

“And all things you ask in prayer, believing you will receive,” Matt. 21:22

God tells us in His Word to pray without ceasing. Jesus, who was God Himself, spent much of His time on this planet, praying. In fact now, the Bible tells us that Jesus prays for us. Right now, while He is in heaven, Jesus Christ, who rose from the dead, is praying for us.

“Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them,” Heb. 7:25

“who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right ahand of God, who also intercedes us.”

I don’t have any power of my own. I definitely can’t see the future. So I’m going to rely on the One who can.

Will you join me in this effort? Will you pray with me? If all of the Believers would make prayer a priority, imagine how effective we would be in everything? Let’s all start this new year out right.