Day 6: Intercession and Our Spiritual Core. Today’s challenge was to create a list of 25 people that you interact with regularly and to pray for them. Then to read through Matthew 5-7 and complete a SOAPS study on this passage.
I have to admit that today I am exhausted. I don’t know whether it’s the weather, or my kiddos waking up at night, or my participation in a Steps challenge at work (who knew that walking 10,000 steps a day was so hard!? Apparently, I need to add working out to my to-do list as well), but I am tired tonight. I started my list of 25 people earlier in the day and then finished it this evening. At first, I had a hard time thinking of 25 people because I was trying to list only people I interact with on a daily basis. Then I realized that I interact with many people I don’t see every single day, such as family, friends, etc. So, I started with people at work, then moved to friends and family that I love to interact with but maybe don’t see every single day. I spent time this evening praying for the people on that list. There are a few people who are already believers on the list, but I tried to think of people who maybe aren’t believers, or who I am unsure of where they stand with God.
Then I spent time working through Matthew. I will admit, this is the first time I didn’t completely finish something. I was so tired reading through Matthew tonight that I kept falling asleep. I did complete the study through Matthew 5 though, and I am committing to starting this task earlier (and maybe attempting to get more sleep..haha) so that I am not quite as tired and can complete this every day. The verses I chose to focus on tonight were:
You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Matthew 5: 14-16
I felt that these verses spoke very plainly to what we were tasked with today. We should be a light to the people we interact with on a regular basis.
Oh, I almost forgot…If you didn’t watch the video connected with today, please take 2 minutes and watch it. It helped me to think about discipleship in a way that I really had never thought about before. I think sometimes we think that we have to have all of the answers and know everything about God and not have any questions ourselves in order to lead people to Christ, and that is completely false. We just have to be “one step ahead” to share what we know and believe with other people.
