For giving me another year! Another chance to get it right! AND it's also Monday, so a double opportunity to make positive changes. But I need Your help. My greatest desire of my heart is to do Your will! Sometimes in my past when I thought I was doing what You wanted me to, what I thought I heard in my heart, it turned out differently than I expected. Hindsight is 50/50 and I sometimes thought I had listened to Satan in disguise! But whatever my choices were, good or bad, You, Lord were right there with me to help me get through it all.
I am very 'needy' beginning this new year. Needy only in a financial way. Lord, I need to find a way, or ways, to increase my income. To do that I also need not only a 'job' but also the physical health to accomplish that job. The stamina and less pain. I do not want to depend on others to keep 'bailing' me out. I want to earn my income. Lord it has been difficult at best to become a receiver when I was always a giver. You instruct us to be a 'cheerful' giver! Nowhere do you instruct us how to be a receiver! I have to believe in my heart that I must be a grateful receiver and that by accepting the help of others I am giving them the opportunity to be the cheerful giver. This belief is the only way I can accept help from others without feeling guilty. Some tell me it's the fruits of my labor... for all those times I gave in the past.
My health is poor and I have no stamina nor can I stand or walk much without the back pain, sciatica and pain in my legs. If it be Your will I ask that this year I can find relief from the pain. I want to exercise again, painlessly!
Lord, I am truly tired of sitting on the couch! I am tired of being distracted when I should be accomplishing things. I want to clean my house and keep it that way.
God I need Your help. I cannot do anything without it. I can do ALL THINGS with You!
God, I dedicate this year, 2018, to YOU in my life. I praise You and thank You for all the many blessings you have in store for me this year!!
In Jesus most Holy name,
AMEN