Welcome year 2020, we welcome you with open arms and great anticipation.
You are a brand new year and a new decade and the blank pages of my calendar wait with bated breath for God to unveil the details of the next 365 days of my life and family, so I might capture and record His goodness and faithfulness for our remembrance and encouragement in years to come.
Ever since I was a little girl, I have cherished like gold and hold tight a stack of blank paper in my arms, a brand new journal or calendar where the dam that jams up the words of my heart burst and gush as a raging river onto the empty pages, leaving behind the sediments of sentences, paragraphs and chapters of my thoughts.
At the beginning and birth of every New Year,
I ask God to give me fresh vision for this leg of the journey.
I pray for 20/20 vision that He might bring into focus those things both near and far I have struggled to see in the past.
I bow my knees to the plans the “Lord my God” has prepared for me, embracing the hope and future he has promised. May I never waver or question the direction of His voice, as a good shepherd never leads his sheep astray.
Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
For this year 2020 I pray that in order to see His vision, I must also hear His vision with clarity when my Heavenly Father speaks. Oh that my ears be unstopped from the cares and worry which deafens His voice from my unbelief and willingness to hand over the reins that lead me.
Oh that I might celebrate the amazing truth that He knows me intimately by name when He calls me by name.
I have called you by name: thou art mine. Isaiah 43:1 KV
That whenever I hear my name in the night as Samuel did, I immediately recognize His voice with my answer,
“Speak, your servant is listening.” 1 Samuel 3:10 NIV
Lord, open my eyes that I might see through your eyes the vision prepared specifically for me. Might I write this vision down as you have requested, making it plain and easy to follow for the race you have called me to run, never wavering to the left or to the right whether your vision for my life will ever come to pass, as You are a God that cannot lie.
And the Lord answered me, and said, “Write the vision, and make it plain upon the tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Habakkuk 2:2-3 KJV
God is not a man, that he should lie… Numbers 23:19
Lord, remind me this year 2020 to humble myself in your presence, to search daily for direction in Your Word, as promises of fresh vision is mine when eyes are solely fixed on you.
For this new year of 2020, I must turn the pages of year 2019, thanking Him for his faithfulness and goodness He has shown me and my family, yet moving on and forgetting the former things of the past 365 days, as He is doing a new thing, a wonderful and marvelous thing.
“Forget the former things;
Do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!…”
Isaiah 43:18-19
Lord, I want my life to count for this new year of 2020.
I want my life to matter, to make and be a difference for Your Kingdom.
But I desperately need a fresh vision from You today.
I need a slice of fresh bread of vision from You, not the day old kind the world has to offer.
Lord, I dedicate this new year of 2020 to you.
Oh, that my words and deeds this year be pleasing in your sight.
May I continue live my life as an ambassador for You.
May I clearly see with 20/20 vision and hear with distinct clarity
Your Fresh vision for 2020 set before me.
May every day this year of 2020 I reply as Samuel did when You repeatedly beckoned him in the night,
“Here I am Lord. Your servant is listening.”
