New Year’s Prayer

New Year’s Prayer

By George Lockhart

As the new year approaches, here are a few questions I like to pray through:

How did the year begin and how did it end?
Did the course I ran coincide with God’s Will and purposes?
How did I see God at work in and around me?
How did I limit God this year? How did God reveal His limitlessness this year?
What lessons did I learn? What lessons did I teach?
What relationships were strengthened? Which ones need to be strengthened?
Where did I fail? Succeed?
Where do I need to improve? Where do I need to focus?
Where do I need to relax and be patient?
Where does God want to use me? How does God want to use me?
In what way did I resist change? Embrace change?
Which people do I invest the majority of time with over the next year?
What qualities are important for me to develop/God developing in me over the next year?
To where will I travel?
How will I disciple people over the next year?
In what ways can I better use my time, talent or skills?
What new skills do I need to develop to become more fruitful?
How does my personality affect ministry? What can I do to minimize misunderstanding?
How can I improve communication? Organization? Discipline in my life?