Questions for a New Year

I'm not one to make new years resolutions. Making a long list of things I want to change  completely overwhelms me. That being said I do like to evaluate my previous year and think through areas of growth and specific prayer request for my upcoming year. My friend Katherine sent out this below questionaire by Don Whitney to our Community Group.  I think the questions are excellent and a great lense to think through 2014. I plan to spend some of my sabbath this week working through these questions.  I thought I would share as they might be helpful for you as well!



Questions for a New Year - by Don Whitney

The beginning of a new year is an ideal time to stop, look up, and get our bearings. To that end, here are some questions to ask prayerfully in the presence of God.

1. What’s one thing you could do this year to increase your enjoyment of God?
2. What’s the most humanly impossible thing you will ask God to do this year?
3. What’s the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your family life this year?
4. In which spiritual discipline (prayer, worship, Scripture meditation, evangelism, serving, stewardship of time and money, Scripture application, fasting, silence and solitude, journaling, learning, etc.) do you most want to make progress this year, and what will you do about it?
5. What is the single biggest time-waster in your life, and what will you do about it this year?
6. What is the most helpful new way you could strengthen your church?
7. For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this year?
8. What’s the most important way you will, by God’s grace, try to make this year different from last year?
9. What one thing could you do to improve your prayer life this year?
10. What single thing that you plan to do this year will matter most in ten years? In eternity?