Answered Prayer and New Year Remembrance Exercises

New Year Remembrance Exercise #6:
What prayers did God answer in 2011? List them.

New Year Remembrance Exercise #7:  

What prayers were not answered this year and you need to continue praying? These are your Prayers of Determination--or as Mark Batterson calls them, your Circle Prayers. They are your A-S-K Prayers from Matthew 7:7. The USAGC 2026 is one of those.

New Year Remembrance Exercise #8:
What did God say to you in 2011? List what you can recall and what is listed in your prayer journal.

New Year Remembrance Exercise #9: 

What did you say to God in 2011?  List what you can recall and what is listed in your prayer journal. 

New Year Remembrance Exercise #10: 

What did you study in the Bible over the last year? 

Stacy Duplease
Prayer Warrior and Faithful WriterUSAGC 2026

Email: usagc2026@gmail.com
Blog for USAGC 2026: http://usagc2026.blogspot.com
Find my books at/store: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/hisfiction 

New Year Remembrance Exercises Part 3 and 365 Memories Goal

Journaling the Year 2011:

365 Memories Goal

I hope you are starting to see a pattern here. We are trying to prayerfully journal everything we can think of regarding the year 2011. We are trying to get it put down on the page so we never forget these special memories.

Remember at this point, they do not have to be in any specific order. Just get them written down.

Once you have 365 memories, then you can stop this exercise...unless you do not want to, of course. Are we trying to remember one memory per day? Kind of. There are days when nothing happens. There are also days when too much happens. Therefore, 365 is the best number of memories to write down and remember. 

If you can only recall 100, then only put down 100. But, over the next several months, keep revisiting these exercises to see if you can remember more. 

New Year Remembrance Exercise #4:

Take out your calendar, planner, to do lists, journals, etc. Now, add to your lists. add any new memories you haven't written down yet. Warning...this will take some time. 

New Year Remembrance Exercise #5:
Take 5 minutes and write another list of your memories.

Stacy Duplease
Prayer Warrior and Faithful WriterUSAGC 2026

Email: usagc2026@gmail.com
Blog for USAGC 2026: http://usagc2026.blogspot.com
Find my books at/store: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/hisfiction 

New Year Remembrance Exercises Part 2

New Year Remembrance Exercise #3:

Again, at this point, please do not look at your calendars, planner, to do lists, or journals. That will come later.

Take out a sheet of paper and draw a heart that takes up the entire page. Now, write all of the memories from the last year that are close to your heart.

List as many memories as you can fit int he heart and write as small as you possible can. Don't put them in a list. Write them all over your heart: upside down, diagonal, up and down, backwards. Be creative. Use different colors of pen if you desire. If you finish this heart and have more to list, then repeat this exercise. 

~ Stacy Duplease

USAGC 2026

Preparing for the New Year: New Year Remembrance Exercises

As Christians, God tells us over and over again to set up monuments and to remember what we has done throughout the Bible. Therefore, it is important for us to stop and do precisely that. Let's take some time over the next couple days to do so. We will also take a couple of days to plan for the following year.

I will lead us through several exercises and let's get as many memories from the past year written down that we can.

At this point, please do not look at your calendars, planner, to do lists, or journals. That will come later.

New Year Remembrance Exercise #1:
List as many memories as you can think of in a 5 minute segment from the last year. Do not worry about order. Just write them down. Write down the good, the bad, the ugly, the indifferent, and anything else that comes to mind. Write a sentence or two at least for each memory so you can remember what you mean in 10 years.

New Year Remembrance Exercise #2:
Repeat #1 in 15-30 minutes after you did exercise #1.

Do this all day long today. Try to do at least 8 segments where you write a minimum of 15 memories per segment. Just make sure to get them written.

(Photo is from Microsoft Clipart)

~ Stacy Duplease

Sentimental Journey

I do not know about you, but I sure get sentimental at this time of year. It's not that I long to repeat the past. The past is done.

It's that I love to make memories and remember them. I also like to plan on making them.

Here's a question for you.

Do you ever get sentimental about your journey with God and what he has done in your life? 

If so, good for you! When was the last time you did that? Also, why did you get sentimental? 

If not, why not? 

Try to go on a sentimental journey for the rest of the year 2011. Remember what God and you have gone through together. Remember what he has done. What have you prayed? What answers have you received and why? This is an opportune time to prayer journal, by the way. Remember what he has asked of you. Focus on this year. Then, peek backward. What about the last two years? The last 3? 5? 10? 15? And every 5 years after that?

What blessings has the Lord given you this year?

What blessings does the birth of Jesus Christ, the Messiah and Savior, bring to you and your life?

Remember...

(Clipart is from Microsoft Clipart)

Stacy Duplease
Prayer Warrior and Faithful Writer
USAGC 2026

Sentimental Journey

I do not know about you, but I sure get sentimental at this time of year. It's not that I long to repeat the past. The past is done.

It's that I love to make memories and remember them. I also like to plan on making them.

Here's a question for you.

Do you ever get sentimental about your journey with God and what he has done in your life? 

If so, good for you! When was the last time you did that? Also, why did you get sentimental? 

If not, why not? 

Try to go on a sentimental journey for the rest of the year 2011. Remember what God and you have gone through together. Remember what he has done. What have you prayed? What answers have you received and why? This is an opportune time to prayer journal, by the way. Remember what he has asked of you. Focus on this year. Then, peek backward. What about the last two years? The last 3? 5? 10? 15? And every 5 years after that?

What blessings has the Lord given you this year?

What blessings does the birth of Jesus Christ, the Messiah and Savior, bring to you and your life?

Remember...

(Clipart is from Microsoft Clipart)

5 Days Until Christmas: Remember

It's the countdown for Christmas (as you are more than aware).

What are the things you are grateful for this year that the Lord has done in your life? 

I use Christmas as a time, not for gifts, but for remembrance. Therefore, my countdown for Christmas is generally spent trying to draw ever closer to the Lord. I try to remember everything the Lord and I went through the previous year. That's the tradition I hang my stocking on and cherish most. 

Then, the week before New Years is a week of preparation and planning for the next year. 

What have you and God experienced this year as a team? 

What has he done in your life? What about in the lives of your loved ones? 

That's the meaning of Christmas.

(Photo is from: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/)

Stacy Duplease
Prayer Warrior and Faithful WriterUSAGC 2026

Email: usagc2026@gmail.com
Blog for USAGC 2026: http://usagc2026.blogspot.com
Find my books at/store: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/hisfiction