So for the last few years I've tried to Pick a word for the year. This is usually something I’m trying to focus on, work toward, and walk out in my everyday life and pray love for each day. I guess you could call it a defining word for the year. So this month I've been praying about it and asking Holy Spirit what it is He wanted to speak over my 2018 and what word He wants to speak over this next year because I had no idea! Usually I would pray about it and pick a word based on the season of life I’m in or a goal I’m working toward but this year is a little different.
Being on the Race every month looks so different from the last. Not just where I am physically but emotionally and spiritually as well. My job and what I’m walking through and even what the Lord is doing in my heart changes so drastically with each new country so I can’t base it off that.
Even looking ahead to September my life will change so dramatically once again when I step off a plane in America when the race ends (and I have absolutely no idea what in the world life will look like then!)
So how could I possibly choose what word I think will define this whole crazy year! So this time I didn't… that is I didn't pick it. I simply asked Jesus to, then I just sat back and waited for Him to tell me. And BOY, OH BOY did He pick a good one! And the more I pray about it the more I LOVE it! LOL
He simply said "Love". So that is my word for 2018. My prayfull declaration.
That I would show love to every country, nation, person and child that I come in contact with. That when people spend time with me they feel the overflow of the Father's love for them. That they would feel valued and truly cared about! In every new nation of people. And Finally to take that Radical Love back home to my family and church of people I already deeply love!
Also that I would not only show love but that I would live Loved. That I would wake up every morning knowing that my heavenly Father loves me! That I would grow stronger and more confident in my identity in Christ because I know He loves me with an unshakable love! And that is something that doesn't matter where I am in the world or what season I’m in! Because even in a world full of uncertainty, where everything is constantly changing, there is only one thing that is certain, never changing, that never fails, never gives up, never loses, always endures and NEVER fails and that one thing is Love. Jesus is love.
1 Corinthians 13
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I give everything I have to the poor, and even if I were burned alive for preaching the Gospel but didn’t love others, it would be of no value whatever.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude, It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 8 Love never fails!
