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Join the Prayer Group to Pray Through the Psalms with Jan
Well hello, so glad to be back with you today for this episode of The Prayer Podcast. I hope you had a blessed Christmas and that you are able to spend some time in prayer as we near the end of 2023 and move on to 2024. It’s often been said that the way you finish one season is the way you enter the next one, and that holds a lot of truth. Having some time to get quiet, sit before the Lord, pray and ask Him to lead you so that you end this year well, per His definition and not the world’s or even perhaps your own, and ask Him to bless you as you begin 2024. We will all experience new things, different things, in the coming days, and so praying over those coming days and over ourselves as we prepare to walk worthy of our Lord into those days is a great time investment. Hopefully there is some bandwidth in your life to do that.
I’ve done that, and I had the opportunity to spend time in prayer in November and I needed to have that time to pray and to listen, more than I realized, because during our travel around Thanksgiving time I developed some new and not good symptoms related to my health, if you don’t know I was diagnosed with heart failure in 2016 and I have had a thyroid condition most of my life and have been fighting those health related issues for decades. And I had some stuff come up that to me seemed out of the blue, and it is sidelining kind of stuff. So all of that to say, if you do not see me in person for a while, please don’t worry too much - I just have this new battle for my health that I’m dealing with and I’ll probably be out of sight for a while. There are also a few things happening in our life that have to do with things other than my health, and we’re just trusting the Lord in all these things and keeping sort of on the down low during this time. So when you don’t see me or my husband, well, you’ll know why! But it does not look like I will have to cease the ministry work, I can manage to navigate this health stuff and hopefully be able to do things like both podcasts and send out weekly emails with links to both my podcasts and have a weekly time of prayer and study of the Psalms each week in the Facebook prayer group I founded (we’re starting that in January and I’ll add a link to that group in the show notes if you’d like to join us and also a way to get on my email list if you’d like to have the podcast links land in your inbox weekly).
Okay, let’s get on to a blessing for you, one that I hope will be a blessing that continues all throughout the coming year. I’m going to read Psalm 1 from the Amplified Bible and then pray based on that psalm.
The Righteous and the Wicked Contrasted.
1 [a]Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked [following their advice and example],
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit [down to rest] in the seat of [b]scoffers (ridiculers).
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And on His law [His precepts and teachings] he [habitually] meditates day and night.
3 And he will be like a tree firmly planted [and fed] by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season;
Its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers [and comes to maturity].
4 The wicked [those who live in disobedience to God’s law] are not so,
But they are like the chaff [worthless and without substance] which the wind blows away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand [unpunished] in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For the Lord knows and fully approves the way of the righteous,
But the way of the wicked shall perish.
That is my blessing for you as we move into the next year on the calendar. We are one day closer to eternity with the Lord, and I do think that 2024 is a time when we need to be much with the Lord. Be close to Him, pray all throughout the day, pause and listen for Him to lead and guide you, giving you the wisdom you need in every situation. Seek Him daily, even if it means you have to give up some other things. Slow the scroll and spend time with Him. It’s going to be an interesting season for all of us, 2024…and we want to do things that honor Him, and point people to Jesus. That doesn’t happen if we don’t spend a lot of time with Him. That's how to keep our lamps filled with oil. We have to be intentional, or we end up running dry and that is terribly risky at this stage of the game.
My prayer for you is this -
May you be blessed, fortunate, prosperous, favored by God in every way in 2024, and especially in the areas that matter most, the ones that count for eternity. May you not walk in the counsel of the wicked, never following their advice or example, but kept so close to the Lord that you know when you are even a millimeter removed from being by His side, walking out your daily life yoked to Jesus. May you not stand in the path of sinners or sit in the seat of scoffers or ridiculers - in fact, may those who are mockers and ridiculers not be in your close circle so that you would not even face the temptation of engaging in their coarseness or laughing at their hurtful humor. May your delight be in the law of the Lord, in His word, and on His teachings and precepts. May you meditate on the Word of God day and night, habitually. You will be like a tree firmly planted, well fed, by streams of living water, yielding your fruit in season, and your leaf will not wither and whatever you do will prosper and come to maturity and completion, exactly as the Lord intends. You are not like the wicked, you do not live in disobedience to God, and you are not like chaff, worthless and without substance, blown away by the wind. May you be fully known by the Lord, and fully approved of by Him because you have found your righteousness in Christ Jesus. The way of the wicked shall perish, says the Word of God. May your way lead to everlasting life and may you show that way to many, many others in the coming days, weeks and months. In Jesus name I ask this blessing for you today, Amen.
Thanks for joining me today, I so enjoyed preparing this podcast episode and praying this blessing over you. I hope you receive it fully and walk in all God has for you this year. Check those links in the show notes and I’ll see ya next time!
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