Thursday, December 31, 2009

21 Days

It's been said that it takes 21 days to break an old habit and 21 days to form a new one. So with that I'm giving myself and you all a challenge - to form a new relationship with God and by that I mean setting aside time each day for the next 21 days to 1) read my bible, 2) spend time in prayer with God, even listening to Him not being the one to always speak, 3) maybe even keeping a journal and taking it way beyond the 21 days. So that my friends is a challenge that I'm up for and I hope you are as well to start off the year going deeper and continuing throughout the whole year. If you need a little help or something on paper to help you out go to deliberatepeople.com and they have all you will need. Now saying that I will let you know that for the bible reading they have is a good one but it jumps around. By that I mean they have you read something from the Old Testament, Psalms, Proverbs, and the New Testament each day. Sometimes it might just be a verse or two and some might be a whole chapter. I did that once and for me it was a bit hard to try and keep everything in perspective and remember so I'm going to start in the New Testament and go from there. Feel free to start however and wherever you want.

21 days is not a long time, just 3 short weeks, but the results will be monumental. So are you up for it? If you are lets all be encouraging to each other and hold each other accountable for the challenge and track how we are progressing. This is gonna be cool.

2 comments:

Sue said...

Count me in. This is also my desire for the new year.

Hope 2010 is a GREAT one for you and your family, Derek!

mike said...

I think this sounds like a great habit to start. I sure hope it's as hard of a habit to break as some from my past. =) Not that I would want to break it or anything.