Prayer: Lord, many times I feel inadequate when it comes to my own ability to carry this cross in my life. Restore to me the ability to allow your strength to override my weaknesses knowing that your power is made perfect in my inadequacies. For when I am weak…you are strong. Show me how to do a good job for your Glory.
Prayer: Lord, show me how to take back the power I give to other people’s behavior. It is for freedom that you have set me free. This Lent I want you to guide me into the freedom from the attachments I have made to this world like caring so much about what people think and do. Help me to let them and let you show me how you want me to navigate through it all.
Learning Objective: God is after you. Learn the depth of God’s desire to draw you closer and set you free from the personal story of someone who has experienced rejection, suffering and restoration.
Prayer: Jesus I need you in my life. Thank you that you delight in me even when I am not delighting in me. Restore what is broken. Heal what needs healing and free me from the vices that block me from receiving the profound love you have for me. Help me to see myself as you see me…
Learning Objective: Quit overthinking. Understand the fragility that comes when we try to figure things out without God and a way forward.
#1: Quit anything that doesn’t feed the Spirit: quit pouring yourself into things that add zero value to your life.
#2: Quit Hanging out with the wrong people.
#3: Quit Judging and Criticizing Self and Others
#4: Quit Magnifying What is Going Wrong
#5: Quit Overdoing It
#6: People Pleasing
#7: Overthinking
Scriptures: Proverbs 3:5-6 | Luke 4 | Isaiah 26: 3-4 | Zechariah 4:6 | Mark 9:23-25 |
Prayer: Dear Lord, too often I lay awake trying to figure out why things happen as they do and how things will turn out by my own reasoning and I find myself anxious and often frustrated. Help me these next 40 days to release my impulse to do life without you. Overthinking and reasoning without your insight, wisdom and guidance is exhausting. Jesus, I trust in you, you take care of everything. LORD I BELIEVE, help my unbelief.
Learning Objective: Learn the ramification of people pleasing and how to return to God as you discern what is yours and what is someone else’s.
#1: Quit anything that doesn’t feed the Spirit: quit pouring yourself into things that add zero value to your life.
#2: Quit Hanging out with the wrong people.
#3: Quit Judging and Criticizing Self and Others
#4: Quit Magnifying What is Going Wrong
#5: Quit Overdoing It
#6: People Pleasing
Scriptures: Galatians 5:1 | Galatians 1:10
Prayer: Dear Lord, too often my desire to please people is linked to my sense of self-worth. Help me to discern what you want me to do and how you want me to help others while linking my sense of identity to who you say I am and how you want me to help.
Learning Objective: What breaks down when you take on more than God calls you to take on? Quit overdoing it. Learn how to slow down and seek God in the midst of the hustle.
#1: Quit anything that doesn’t feed the Spirit: quit pouring yourself into things that add zero value to your life.
#2: Quit Hanging out with the wrong people.
#3: Quit Judging and Criticizing Self and Others
#4: Quit Magnifying What is Going Wrong
#5: Quit Overdoing It
Scriptures: 1 Kings 19:1-15
Prayer: Dear Lord, I am so busy doing that I often neglect being present to you enough to explore if what I’m doing is what you want me to be doing. Help me to halt the hustle and return to your peace and directives for my life.
Learning Objective: Stop magnifying what is going wrong. Learn the 4th thing to quit doing in order to make room for your relationship with God with CS Lewis.
#1: Quit anything that doesn’t feed the Spirit: quit pouring yourself into things that add zero value to your life.
#2: Quit Hanging out with the wrong people.
#3: Quit Judging and Criticizing Self and Others
#4: Quit Magnifying What is Going Wrong
Scriptures: Colossians 3
Prayer: Lord, you created my brain. Help me to surrender it all to you: my self beliefs, thoughts and perceptions. I give it all to you. Please transform my mind into your mind that I may be free from the suffering that occurs between my two ears.
Learning Objective: Learn the third thing to quit doing in order to make room for your relationship with God with CS Lewis. Judging and criticizing yourself and others.
#1: Quit anything that doesn’t feed the Spirit: quit pouring yourself into things that add zero value to your life.
Prayer: Lord, help me to stop criticizing and judging myself and others. I can’t hear your voice when my head is full of judgment and criticism. I want to hear you more today than yesterday.
Learning Objective: Learn the second thing to quit doing in order to make room for your relationship with God in the New Year with CS Lewis.
#1: Quit anything that doesn’t feed the Spirit: quit pouring yourself into things that add zero value to your life.
#2: Quit Hanging out with the wrong people.
Scriptures: Proverbs 13:20 | 1 Corinthians 15:33 | Psalm 26:4-5 | 1 John 4:1 | Titus 3:9-11 | Proverbs 1:10 | James 4:4 | Psalm 1:1-6
Prayer: Lord, help me to stop pouring myself into those things that add zero value to my life. Help me to remember you are my way, my truth and my life. I pray for the grace to lay these 7 things down and allow you to be sovereign over all that is within me.
Learning Objective: Pulling from Coached by Paul the Apostle, learn five questions to launch forward into the New Year and five fears that can hold you back.
