Fearlessly Courageous
Desk of Dennis Piller
1 1 2025
Become What You Believe! God Questions 6 – 10 For the New Year (Are you listening?) Part 3
What is waiting for you in the New Year? Prov 21:5 says: “The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance.” My last post tackled questions 1 through 5 (Did you take the time to answer them?), and today is the second set of questions challenging Christians wanting a more purposeful walk with Christ.
This is the 3rd installment to help you put your life on a God Ordained track for the New Year. January 13th at 7 to 8:30 pm I will host an online Google Meet .
New Year…New You – Goal setting event to help you prepare and create a clear and vibrant 2025.
Here is your Link to join us Jan. 13th : meet.google.com/btj-ojpw-kxx
Be a testimony in someone else’s life. Invite them to this serious connection with God as He speaks to us about tomorrow and the new anointing he is pouring out.
Print out each of the past 3 lessons or email them to bring them up to speed.
Session 3: January 1st Become What you Believe – God Questions 6 – 10
Matt 9:29 says: “Then, he touched their eyes and said, According to your faith, (your trust and confidence in My power and My ability to heal] it will be done to you. He touched their eyes and said, “Become what you believe.“
6. What’s the most helpful new way you could strengthen your church? While we often stress the fact that individual believers are the body of Christ (1 Cor 6:15), the New Testament says seven times to one that the church is the body of Christ (Eph 5;23). We mustn’t let our frequent emphasis on our personal relationship with Christ minimize the importance of our service to Jesus through his body. Small groups are another way we love our neighbor as we love Christ. How can our church be stronger this year because of you? Serving? Giving? Praying? Building relationships?
7. For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this year? Praying frequently and fervently for someone’s salvation makes us more sensitive to opportunities to share the gospel with him or her. Will you commit to praying for at least one person’s salvation every day this new year? A family member, a friend, co-worker, neighbor?
8. What’s the most important way, by God’s grace, you will try to make this year different from last? Under his sovereignty, he gives us a measure of responsibility over many areas of life. In which of these would you most like to see a change from last year? You may find that your answer to this question is found in one of the 10 questions of our focus. To which of them do you sense the Holy Spirit calling your attention most urgently? Read them again. They will come alive.
9. What one thing could you do to improve your prayer life this year? We have talked about prayer. “Our Father” For many, it might be as simple as designating a time exclusively for prayer instead of praying only “on the go” types of prayers. For others, it might be learning the simple, biblical practice of praying the Bible.
10. What single thing can you plan to do this year that will matter most in ten years? And In eternity? Short-term deadlines tend to dominate our attention. Busyness and fatigue often limit our vision to just getting through today. But don’t let the tyranny of the urgent distract you from something you’re neglecting that would have an enormous long-term impact on your soul, your family, or your church.
Wow, Dennis, none of these are typically spellbinding questions. Agreed, but any one of them could change your year positively, even eternally. What is a win in any of these areas worth to you?
My goal is to get you thinking…to get you talking to others about the part God plays in your daily life. If that is important to you, then carve out some time to put some kind of answer down for each of them. Print each of these lessons out and put them into a binder so that you can be accountable to yourself and, hopefully, someone else as you progress through these life-changing messages.
They are statements of your faith! They should be large enough to stretch your faith. Ephesians 3:20 says: “He can do more than we can even imagine.” I say: A person with no goals, has no risk, and, I think, has no or little faith. In fact, I might argue that a person is being unfaithful.
Consider Your New Year. The value of many of these questions may be the simple fact that they bring an issue or commitment into focus. For example, just making a goal to encourage one person, in particular, this year is more likely to help you remember to encourage that person than if you hadn’t set that goal. If you’ve found these questions helpful, you might want to put them someplace — on your phone, computer, calendar, or wherever you put reminders — where you can review them frequently.
I pray these prayerfully thought-through questions will help you to “consider your ways,” to make plans and goals, and to live this new year with biblical diligence, remembering the principle that “the plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance” (Prov 21:5). But in all things, let’s also remember our dependence on our King, who said, “Apart from me you can do nothing” (John 15:5).
I would like to know who is interested in coming. I want you to answer the areas above about the relationship with God you are going to grow. Please work on stretching yourself, start with reasonable baby steps forward. I look forward to hearing from you.
If you would like to pass this lesson and future devotions to someone, send them this Signup link: http://eepurl.com/gKlklD This is the link new people you invite need to subscribe to for our Jan 13th Meeting.
My website to view past devotions is https://fearlesslycourageous.com
Again the link to join us Monday Jan 13th is: meet.google.com/btj-ojpw-kxx
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