This is our third year picking one word as an anchor for our lives. Our 2016 word was surrender and you can read more about that here. Discipleship was the word for 2017 and you can read about that here. I am so thankful that God put these words on our hearts and we feel like it really does anchor our year. Last year when we started discipleship we had no idea where that would bring us. God gave us so many good resources and now as we enter 2018 we really feel like we know what it means to disciple someone else and also to be a disciple of Jesus. Just like the word surrender, discipleship is going to keep going through the rest of our lives.
I wasn’t sure that we were going to do a word this year because I didn’t feel like God had placed anything on our hearts and I honestly didn’t think that we could top surrender or discipleship. Just this week I was going through some reflection time on 2017 and thinking ahead to 2018 and I felt like God was really putting prayer on my heart. I do feel like our prayer lives have been lacking and I felt like God was telling us that this was the thing we are to hone in on in 2018. I asked for and received a yearly prayer journal from Val Marie Paper for Christmas. I have been preparing it for January and I am excited to start our year out focusing on prayer.
This quote from the Dad Tired Podcast Facebook page really stuck out to me:
I absolutely love this quote. It is a good reminder that I need to go to God not just daily, but throughout the day as well. I feel confident that God will be with us every step of the way as we really try to filter everything about our lives through Him. I don’t want to silently declare that I have more power over my life than Jesus does.
Here is to a prayer filled 2018!