This is a special supplement to our regular Newsletter of
December 19: Staying Connected to God's Vision. It is a
practical exercise for establishing a new FINANCIAL vision for
your family for the year 2009. The following steps are a
suggested format but by no means are they the only way. May
this exercise be a total blessing for you and your family.
1. Read Habakkuk 2:1-2.
Note that these verses talk about spending time with the Lord
to SEE what He will speak. In this case you are asking Him to
speak to you about His vision for your life during the coming
year. The next scripture then says to write down that vision so
you can run with it and make it come to life.
2. Sit down with your family.
Take some time with your spouse and children (if you have
any) to check your heart, to discuss the foregoing scriptures and
to pray over the task of designing and writing a new vision for
your family. Commit this time to the Lord and ask Him to be
present in your time together.
3. Write down the following three things:
- What you desire to give financially into the Kingdom of
God in 2008
- What you owe - every debt, large or small. (Write down the
principal, interest rate and monthly payment)
- What you would like to have or do personally if price/cost
was of no concern
4. Hold your paper up before the Lord with
your family present and do the following:
- Acknowledge the Lord as your total source.
- Thank Him for caring for you in times past.
- Ask Him to enable you to fulfill the vision you have written
down.
- Claim all the funds necessary (plus some extra) to give, pay
off, and do what you have written down.
- Command the devil to take his hands off the funds you will
need. Forbid him to hinder it coming to you.
- Charge the ministering spirits to go and work swiftly to
cause the funds to come in.
- Thank the Father wholeheartedly for bringing these things
to pass in your life, to His glory.
5. Take communion together as a family to
seal your new covenant with the Lord.
6.
Raise your expectations for yourself and SEE yourself receiving
what you have written down.
7. During the
coming months release your faith and thank the Lord
continually for the realization of your Vision even before it
manifests.
