Today's Thought
As we close out our first week of prayer and fasting, our prayer today is that God would increase our faith this year. Hebrews talks about many of the giants of the faith that have gone before us and how they lived their lives by faith (although not perfectly). They saw God do the impossible and died with their faith anchored in the promise that was yet to come in eternity. We have been placed at this point in history for a purpose. The Kingdom of God is moving in powerful ways in our time, and He is calling each of us to play our part as we walk by faith.

Prayer Focus
Father, I submit to your plans, your kingdom, your ways. I ask that you would help me walk in obedience this year, and that through obedience, my faith would grow stronger each day. Help me to step out and trust you in the big and small ways that you are calling me to obey. Help me keep my eyes on the ultimate promise of Heaven, but let it drive me to live every day in surrender to you. Use my life so that others will see you and come to know you as Savior. I pray that 2025 will be a year that I look back on and see your fingerprints on each day, each week. As the man in Scripture prayed, “Lord, I believe, help my unbelief”, I am asking you to show yourself strong in every deficit in my life. In Jesus name, Amen.