New Year's Focus

There are many times in our lives that we need ‘balance’. You hear that theme a lot especially during the New Year. People will say to have balance in your diet, your exercising life, balance with drinking, time with your family, time with your friends. Sometimes just thinking about having and maintaining balance in itself is the issue that makes us live a life without good balance!

 What do you need from God today, what do you want  change for the new year? Today, on the first day of a new year my mind is going towards the theme of "wisdom". In Proverbs 3:13-15 it says, "Joyful is the person who finds wisdom, the one who gains understanding. For wisdom is more profitable than silver, and her wages are better than gold. Wisdom is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare to her.” 

Wisdom comes from God and we have to "ask, seek and knock" to find it. 

ASK

SEEK 

KNOCK.

Sometimes anxiety and worry blocks our ability to gain the wisdom God may have for us but i

n Philippians 4:6-7 it says "do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests by known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus."

I researched the word "supplication" means "the action of asking or begging for something earnestly or humbly" Is there something you are praying for, asking others to pray for? You read there in Philippians in God's own word to 'petition and ask, plead for' that to me seems like there should be a lot more serious praying going on around us! When you think of a young toddler or child when they want something that they cannot afford themselves in the toy or candy store, they will not just 'ask' calmly, but they are usually seen begging, over and over pleading with their mom or dad, knowing his parent has the means to buy it. 

Our Heavenly Father wants us to come to Him, with the knowledge and with humility before him, asking him for what we need and want. In Matthew 7:11 it says, "If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give good gifts to those who ask him."