"Apart From ME You Can Do Nothing"

Consider your ways!

(Don Whitney)

Twenty-one questions to ask at the start 

of a New Year, or on your Birthday

Once, when the people of GOD had 

become careless in their relationship 

with HIM, the LORD rebuked them 

through the prophet Haggai. 

"Consider your ways!" 
(Haggai 1:5) 

he declared, urging them to reflect 

on some of the things happening to them, 

and to evaluate their slipshod spirituality 

in light of what GOD had told them.

The beginning of a new year is an ideal 

time to stop, look up, and get our bearings. 

To that end, here are ten questions to 

ask prayerfully in the presence of GOD:

1. In which spiritual discipline do you 

most want to make progress this year--

and what will you do about it?

2. What is the single biggest time-
waster in your life--
and what will you do about it this year?

          3. What one thing could you do to
            improve your prayer life this year?

          4. What single thing that you plan
         to do this year will matter most
         in ten years? In eternity?

          5. What area of your life most needs 

          simplifying, and what's one way you 

          could simplify in that area?

          6. What habit would you most 

            like to establish this year?

          7. What book, in addition to the Bible, 

            do you most want to read this year?

         8. What one thing do you most regret 

              about last year, and what will you 

              do about it this year?

         9. In what area of your life do you most 

             need growth, and what will you do 

              about it this year?

       10. In what area of your life do you
             most need change, and what will 

             you do about it this year?

If you've found these questions helpful,
you might want to put them someplace--

on your phone, tablet, day planner, calendar, 

bulletin board, etc.--where you can review 

them more frequently than once a year.

So let's evaluate our lives, make plans 

and goals, and live this new year with 

biblical diligence, remembering that, 

"The plans of the diligent lead surely 

to advantage" (Proverbs 21:5). 

But in all things let's also remember our 

dependence on our KING who said, 

"Apart from ME you can do nothing" 

(John 15:5).

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GraceGems Has published  Jonathan Edwards' 
"Resolutions".