2025 Prayer Board
If there’s anything that I learned from 2024 is that nothing is really in my control, and when I try to control it the outcome is not in my favor and usually is a bigger mess than I intended. With that said, everyone writes down goals, and dreams that they want to accomplish at the beginning of the year, and while yes I have a lottt and I will definitely share, there’s a reason that I have changed it from a vision board to a prayer board.
God can change anyone’s plans! Last year my goals matched where I wanted to be, which was in Idaho with the school I was at. I had to allow God to alter my plans and my ego to be able to feel like a failure, leave Bible school, and go back home where God wanted me to be at. It was embarrassing and hard, but God brought me back for a reason and it has definitely brought me closer to Him and more willing to follow His plan over mine. I have plans, goals, and ambitions but I am ok with God stepping in and changing the things that aren’t pleasing to Him, or the ones that aren’t a part of God’s plan.
One thing that we usually miss when focusing on God’s plan for our lives is coming to the realization of if I am willing to follow in a big step, am I also ok to walk away from it? My dad taught me that a while ago when it felt like the Lord opened a door for me to go on a mission trip, just to get a positive covid test in Chicago and have to fly back to Colorado. I was angry and spent the whole time in the airport crying, asking God why I wasted time saving and planning just to have it taken away. What I didn’t realize was the fight of willingness to go, I didn’t want to go it was something my parents wanted me to experience before I graduated so I just found a good one to join but I wasn’t excited to serve the Lord. On the day before I flew out, I prayed to God as I was packing and I told him I am willing to go and be a blessing. The frustration of being willing but having the door shut was something I needed. The next year when the trip came around, I wasn’t just prepared when it came to packing, my heart was prepared and ready. Sometimes, that’s what it takes to follow God’s will.
Whether it’s a relationship ending, or a career that was taken from you it’s hard but also a blessing because it’s clear that God removed it from your life for a reason! I pray for you in this year, with all the trials, all the blessings, all the heartache, and all the answered prayers, that you will see God in it and lean on Him because He mourns with us in times of hardship and He is there when no one else is!
Love y’all! Make it a great week!
Bella <3
