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Here we are. The 11th day of the new year. Those resolutions, goals, and dreams are they still burning bright. Have you adjusted to a new schedule and new habit as you’ve walked through the door to accomplish that goal? Or maybe you’re still standing outside the door saying, “Here I am again, a New Year, and no luck.”
What is that dream? Name that door you want to walk through. That goal or resolution of a better education, a more flexible body, seeing your ideal weight, a more intimate relationship with Christ, better communication with your children or beginning your own business or ministry? What is it? Name it. Or are you too afraid to name it for fear you’ll only fail again?
Friend, I’ve had my share of doors I’ve left unopened. Regrets. Disappointments. I’ve had situations when I was afraid to walk through and times yet when I flat out didn’t want to walk through. READ HERE.
Friend, I’ve had my share of doors I’ve left unopened. Regrets. Disappointments. I’ve had situations when I was afraid to walk through and times yet when I flat out didn’t want to walk through. READ HERE.
As you approach today, now is the time to decide, dedicate and determine your plans and goals to accomplish that dream. Don’t be afraid. Don’t feel like you’ve failed. Just pull up a chair and sit with God and gaze at the door their in your midst. Spend time in prayer to decide what His goals are for you. For He alone knows the plans He has for you (Jeremiah 29:11). He knows what doors are supposed to open. Ask Him. Listen. Hear the vision, the dream. Write it down. OBEY.
Dedicate this years goals to the Lord. As you dedicate them, determine each and every day to live your life by those goals. Walk through that day. Open the door and walk through it. Open the door over and over, if you must, but open it. Be not afraid, begin each day praying, “Lord, today, I dedicate my __________________ to you. Help me open the door and walk through. ” In your urgency to accomplish, this is not a once a year prayer, but yet a prayer to be recited each new day.
Can you hear yourself praying that prayer every day?
Can you see yourself opening the door and walking through?
(wait) I hear the Father beckoning, “Open the door, for cryin’ out loud!”
Tomorrow we’ll look at what’s on the other side of that open door.
Can you see yourself opening the door and walking through?
(wait) I hear the Father beckoning, “Open the door, for cryin’ out loud!”
Tomorrow we’ll look at what’s on the other side of that open door.
Open the door…like this thought
Yes, we need to pray and dedicate ourselves/our dreams and goals for God daily. Great post, thank you! Be abundantly blessed as you boldly live in God's grace!
May day has not gone as planned. I did not get to even begin on my list of things to do today. But I have been taken past that door a few times. I've let it linger in my sideview mirror for a time until finally I had to look in the window! I don't know at this point if I will get time to read my books and write in my journal, the things I had listed under -unwanted door- but that's no hindrance to Him!
Amy
yes! I am finding that I used to not set goals for fear of actually having to do them, haha. Thank you for encouraging me to name them, theeeen, do them :)
Amy – sometimes those unwanted doors are the best doors because they are His doors. That's exactly what my post I referred back to was all about. The strange thing about doors is that we really don't know what's on the other side until we are on the other side. Walk through it girl! We all say open it.
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This word is so on time for me. 2012 has started of ROUGH. I have a door I have been staring at for almost two years. I've even started praying, "If it's 'No', please just tell me no" because in the silence, I just keep waiting. I saved the prayer in my phone to reference daily and commit to memory. Thank you.
I am a few days behind in my reader. But his came very timely for me. This year, I want to dedicate my weight loss to the Lord. I think I've been walking this journey alone for too long. It's time to open the door and invite Him in.