365 Days of Prayer Celebration!
God’s Word.
WHAT DID GOD SAY TO ME THIS MORNING
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I am super excited to be celebrating one full year of early morning prayer time with Holy Spirit. I started this journey of waking up early exactly 365 days ago. When I look back at my journal notes, I can clearly see how far God has brought me. On this day, 2019, I wrote in my journal that I had started the 1-Hour Prayer Challenge. I wrote down that I had a desire to pray about how to pray. I also wrote that I didn’t want to make the prayer challenge “a thing” that I focus on with perfection, but to actually let go of being right or doing it exactly right the first time. I really didn’t want it to be about the thing. I wanted to be IN IT fully present. Being a bit of a recovering perfectionist, I knew that I had to shift my focus as I started the challenge. I needed to keep my focus on God.
As I look at how my life has transformed over the last year, I can’t help but to feel joyous! 2019 was the year that I gave God permission to have His way in my life. I had gotten fed up with just living life my own way. I had gotten so tired of struggling. For all those years, I had masked my struggles with success. On the outside, I looked like I was doing so well, but on the inside, I knew my life wasn’t in full alignment with God. I knew there were some areas where I was just ignoring God’s instructions and His commandments. And at the end of 2018 going into 2019, it was time to just surrender and let go of it. I couldn’t take it anymore. I was tired mentally and physically of living the same ole life. And I knew the Lord was chasing after me. I couldn’t rest. He was trying to get my attention. Again, I couldn’t rest. And you might be saying, but you were successful through. Listen, even my success wasn’t enough reason for me to keep living half way right. Plus I knew that my success was inauthentic. And I wasn’t being successful with God.
This morning as I reflect over the last 365 days of committed prayer every single morning between the hours of 5 a.m. and 6 a.m., I realized a few things:
I didn’t come to the challenge sin free. I came just as I was, and God cleaned me up.
There were people who fell out of my life because I was no longer the same person when I started building a relationship with Holy Spirit every morning.
My discernment grew tremendously and even today, I will admit that I am not perfect, but I am better than I was 365 days ago. I can see clearly now where before it was a bit fuzzy!
What I put my focus on expanded. When I put my focus on Jesus, He expanded in my life. I stopped listening to certain music. I stopped watching TV and started binge-watching sermons. I replaced cussing and fussing with praying and praising. My new life begin to expand and take shape. It pushed out my old habits. My old way of thinking. There was no room for the old as I focused on ALL THINGS NEW.
I am still progressing, but what God did with my life in 365 days, still amazes me every single day. He transformed me! PERIOD!
As I listened to the Holy Spirit this morning, I heard, there is still much work to be done Fon. Yesterday He said don’t get weary in well-doing. I realize that the last 365 was a clean-up and removal process. A strengthening process. A habit breaking process. There were some things that needed to be routed out before I could go on to the next level in my relationship with God. For 365 days, He was doing a mighty work in me and on me! And He is still working on me right now!
This morning I was helping the kids get ready for school and I noticed that the enemy was trying to get me to focus on something that the Holy Spirit had already told me not to focus on. Right then and there, on this 1 year anniversary of me waking up early to pray, I said: That’s it devil. I am sick of this mental roller coaster ride you try to take me on every day. Like I am tired of even entertaining you at all! Period. That’s it! This roller coaster is no longer in service. Not only am I not going to ride it anymore, I am demolishing it! Today is demolition day for this up and down, twists and turns, emotional, doubt-filled, discouragement and distraction roller coaster! Ain’t no more confusion. I know I hear from the Lord every day. You will stop trying to make me question what I know I heard. You will stop trying to make me over-think things that My God already thought about and handled. THIS RIDE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. IN JESUS NAME>>>>SHUT IT DOWN ENEMY!
Today is a celebration! Today I move to the next level in my relationship with my Lord and Savior. Today I recommit to another 365 days of morning prayer time. And whatever new level devil that’s coming…here’s a heads up…YOU ARE ALREADY DEFEATED ON THIS NEXT LEVEL IN JESUS NAME!
Be encouraged today to commit to praying! When you look back over the last 365 days of your life, what can you thank God for? What can you celebrate? And what do you need to demolish in your life once and for all?
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Check out your assignment questions for today. Take a moment to reflect and then answer the questions in your journal. Pray. Listen. Write. Obey.
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ASSIGNMENTS
What did God say to you in your conversation with Him this morning?
When you look back over the last 365 days, what are you thankful to God for? What are you celebrating?
What do you need to demolish in your life once and for all?
Check out today’s Scriptural Surprise!
SALVATION PRAYER
If you’re not a believer and have a desire to be, openly confess and declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9). When you pray that prayer out loud, you are saved. Get connected with a good, bible-based church in your community and start having a conversation through prayer with God every day. And let me be the first to welcome you to your new life with Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. YAAAAY!!!!! You made the best decision you could ever make! Feel free to email me at info@onassignmentbyGod.com and let me know about your newfound life or if you need prayer for anything.