One Question

2010 what can I say - what an amazing year! This time last year I was wondering how I would ever get moved into the city of Belfast, finally be on the ground to get involved with the church plant, settle into the life of a new community and find a home! I can honestly say it has been an adventurous rollercoaster ride the whole way but I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else right now. A year later and in the city of Belfast in January 2011 it’s now time to reflect over past year and look forward to 2011 and all that God has in store.

It’s so easy to let time pass us by, to allow our dreams to fade or to become distracted or move off-course from the very thing that God would desire for us to pursue. I love this time of year, every year, and find January usually a very challenging and thought provoking month. It creates a fresh opportunity to evaluate and process all the challenges that life has brought and ask yourself some really honest questions to prepare for the journey and new season ahead.
Over the past few weeks everything that I have been reading is asking that one question that sometimes we find the most difficult to sum up in just one sentence and the challenge of writing it down– “what is your vision”?
I thought I would take the opportunity to share some of the thought provoking questions that I have popping up for me that I have been looking at recently and maybe they will help you as you take time to reflect over the past year and seek to faithfully serve God in the community that you are a part of during 2011.

Here are just a few of those questions:

What is your all consuming desire, that’s been living with you all of your life?
What are you passionate about?
What has God called and gifted you to do?
What motivates you to be productive?
What keeps you going forward when you’re worn out?
What makes you refuse to quit when faced with opposition or difficult challenges?
What do you do that brings positive response and support from others?
What do trustworthy friends, discerning leaders and godly counsellors think about your life, work, and relationship with God?
What are your strengths and weaknesses and how will you endeavour to develop those?
What makes you feel good about being who you are?
What makes your creative juices flow?
What would you be willing to sacrifice to accomplish it?
What would you be willing to withstand Satan over, in order to accomplish it?
What is God saying to you right now?

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