Hopes, Dreams, and Goals for a New YearSample

HOPES

REFLECT: Open your journal and set your timer for 3 minutes. Write down some of the highs and lows you experienced in the last year and the emotions and adjectives that accompanied them.

On day 1, you did the work of discovering the character of God in this chapter. Today, read the chapter again and hold the past year in your mind as you read. This chapter is meant to bring comfort, assurance, and hope to God’s people. In what ways do God’s words bring you comfort right now?

A biblical definition of hope is waiting with anticipation. What are you hoping for in the new year? What does it look like to wait on God with anticipation?

PRACTICE: Open your journal to your HOPE, DREAMS, and GOALS page, and begin filling in your hopes for the new year.

PAUSE TO PRAY: Use Isaiah 40:28-31 to surrender your hopes to the Lord.

Do you not know? Have you not heard?

The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;

but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary,

they will walk and not be faint.