Questions for the New Year

The beginning of a new year is an ideal time to stop, look up, and get our bearings. To that end, here are some questions to ask prayerfully in the presence of God.

• What’s one thing you could do this year to increase your enjoyment of God?


• What’s the most humanly impossible thing you will ask God to do this year?


• What’s the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your family life this year?


• In which spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress this year, and what will you do about it?


• What is the single biggest time-waster in your life, and what will you do about it this year?


• What is the most helpful new way you could strengthen your church?


• For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this year?


• What’s the most important way you will, by God’s grace, try to make this year different from last year?


• What one thing could you do to improve your prayer life this year?


• What single thing that you plan to do this year will matter most in ten years? In eternity?