Faith Focused Prayers
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Faith Focused Prayers
Embracing February: Resilience, Faith, and New Beginnings
February marks a time for reflection, intention, and acceptance as we navigate our goals and aspirations. We emphasize the importance of aligning our desires with purpose while maintaining a spirit of perseverance through challenges and rest.
• Honoring Black History Month and its significance
• Checking in on personal goals and progress
• Acknowledging setbacks and the importance of taking breaks
• Focusing intentions for February and establishing priorities
• Practical steps toward achieving goals and managing energy
• The role of prayer in aligning our actions with purpose
• Balancing ambitions with self-care and well-being
• Encouragement to proceed authentically without pressure
Hello beautiful people, and welcome back to Faith Focused Prayers podcast. I hope you're doing amazing. It is February 1st, so happy February. I am looking forward to this month. I am energized, I am encouraged, I am excited for what February has to bring. It is also the beginning of Black History Month. So happy Black History Month.
Speaker 0:Please remember to pay respect to those who have paved the way and opened the doors we are able to walk through today. Pay respect to Black Americans, african Americans, because they have contributed to a lot of growth of society. Innovation, strength, beauty, excellence. Don't take those things for granted and give respect and honor where respect and honor is due. So happy black history month. Be encouraged, be motivated. You matter, your life matters, your voice matters, your story matters and you are making a difference.
Speaker 0:How are you guys doing? How are your goals going? Are you focused? Are you energized? Have you felt depleted?
Speaker 0:Did January wear you out? Because I know for me, if you don't already know, I have a YouTube channel and I was doing a 30-day run for the month of January. I got up to day 24 or 25 and then I stopped. It was one of my friend's birthdays and we celebrated for many days After that I was just so exhausted and tired that I didn't post content for the last week of January. But, like I was saying in some of my previous episodes, it's good to put the standard and the goal high because if you fail, you're still succeeding above average. So I went 24, 25 days posting a video every day. God is good. But then I was so exhausted and drained that I needed a break. I took my quick break. Now we're back for February, ready to keep going.
Speaker 0:So where are you at with your goals? How are you feeling? Are you motivated? Are you inspired? Are you pressing forward? Are you exhausted? Are you in your resting? What's going on? I want to encourage you to do not give up. Do not get tired in well-doing, do not grow weary. Now is not the time to throw in the towel or to take a two month break. No, we don't have time for that. You see how fast January flew through. That's how the whole year is going to be, and you want to accomplish as much as possible possible.
Speaker 0:Go back to your journal, your planner, wherever you wrote your goals down, and examine what is my next step. Where am I headed now? For me, I made it a point where January I was focusing on my YouTube, february I'm focusing on writing a book, because I did say that that was one of the things I wanted to accomplish for 2025. So that is now where my focus is on, from February 1st to I think it's 28 days in February, but for this month, that's what I'm focusing on. What are you focusing on? My goal was to post for 31 days. I ended up posting for 24, 25 days. That's not bad. That's still above average. That's still more than I've ever posted. So that's the whole mindset of reaching for the stars, and maybe you'll hit the clouds.
Speaker 0:So ask yourself what's next on your goal list and start working on that. What are you dedicating your February 2025 to? Are you mentally, physically prepared? Are you focused? Are you locked in? If not, how do you get there?
Speaker 0:A good way to start is prayer. Sit down with God and see, work a plan out with him, because you want the Holy Spirit to be in agreement with what you're doing. So the best way to do that is by sitting down with God and praying, ordering your steps, figuring out what's the game plan, what does God want me to focus on? Where does he want me to put my energy into and then pressing towards that. Like I said, for me it's this book. I already decided. Okay, if my book is going to have 365 pages, let me divide that by 30. How many pages do I need to work on a day? Something like that like come up with practical steps to actually achieve your goals and then press towards them.
Speaker 0:What else are you focusing on? For me, I want to focus on weight loss. Still need to lose about 20, 30 more pounds. If I can commit to losing seven pounds for the month of February, I think I would be happy with that. That would get me closer to my goal Seven pounds. I feel like that's doable. I can make that happen. That's not going to be my focus this week, but next week I'm going to tap into that. But just be realistic with yourself. Be encouraging to yourself. Challenge yourself. What is your February going to look like? Do not allow it to go to waste. Yes, valentine's Day is here. There's so many things going on. There's so many events going on, but still be committed to your goals.
Speaker 0:What this weekend taught me? Like I said, it was my friend's birthday and I was going strong with my YouTube and then I stopped when my friend's birthday came. That taught me what I was willing to put in front of my goals. Is that my friend's fault? No, 100%. No, it's my fault, but it just showed me. It was a good reflection moment, like, okay, that's something you're willing to put in front of your goals and that cannot happen. I can't be willing to put anything in front of my goals Now for future reference. I know when something is coming up, no matter how much I tell myself I'm going to be able to do both realistically. I've shown that I can do both. So I need to prioritize my goals and my dreams and my aspirations. Whether that looks like preparing beforehand and having backup content, I should have done that. I shouldn't have allowed one weekend or one celebration to cause me to get off track, and I did. It was good. It was a learning that I shouldn't have allowed one weekend or one celebration to cause me to get off track, and I did. It was good. It was a learning experience. I completely enjoyed my friend's weekend. I was able to just be in the moment without worrying about filming content or things like that. So overall was good, but it was just a good aha moment and something to take note of for my own personal journey and walk.
Speaker 0:But that's my question for you today what is your February going to consist of? I'm praying for you. I'm praying that whoever's listening to this that your month of February would consist of prosperity and growth and peace and perseverance. That you will achieve everything that you're putting your mind to right now. I don't know why I'm feeling super anxious at this moment. So if there's anyone listening to this who is dealing with anxiety and stress and worry and fear, I just pray for you. I pray the peace that surpasses all understanding over you. I pray the peace of God. I pray that the Lord would just wrap you up in his arms and just touch you right now. Touch your mind, touch your heart, help you to slow down and to just focus and to breathe. Not get anxious, to not get overwhelmed, because that's some emotions I'm feeling right now.
Speaker 0:I'm feeling kind of overwhelmed, but just don't put too much pressure on yourself. Don't put too much pressure on yourself to hit a certain goal or milestone or whatever. Just give yourself the opportunity to achieve what you're capable of achieving, but don't beat yourself up if you haven't achieved the things that you wanted to achieve. Does that make sense, like it's all going to end up happening in God's timing anyways. Be obedient and push yourself and grow in the ways that you can without burning yourself out.
Speaker 0:So, god, we just thank you. We thank you for this new month, we thank you for the new blessings that are attached to the month of February. We thank you that everything is perfect in your time. God, we trust your timing, we trust your will, we trust your ways. And, god, we just ask that you would order our steps this month, god, sit us down and tell us what you want us to focus on, where you want our energy and our effort to go, where you want our mind to be, where you want our feet to go.
Speaker 0:I ask that you would order our steps. Holy Spirit, guard our mind and our mouth and our hands. That everything we put our hands to will be blessed. Everything we speak into existence we will see into fruition, god, and I just pray, god, that overall we're in your will and that what we're doing is pleasing to you. Help us, god, to align our mind with your mind. Align our heart with your heart. Align our steps with your will, god, that we would walk the path that you have laid out before us that we would not lean to the left or the right, or try to lean onto our own understanding, but that we would acknowledge you in all our ways, that you could direct our path.
Speaker 0:God, we know that you are in control and everything is under your hand. God, we thank you for your love and your grace and your mercy, and we thank you that you would never leave us and you would never forsake us. We thank you for your unconditional love that you show us every day, god. God, help us to get the most out of this month. Help us to have our priorities straight, to have our minds straight, to have our minds straight to have our conversations in order to be fruitful and just multiply blessing all year long. God, I pray for favor over myself, favor over the person listening this, the favor of God that would get us through doors and places that we are unqualified to be in. But because of your favor and because you are walking with us, your riches and glory will be upon our life. God, we need you, we love you, we trust you. Help us to be consistent, help us to be authentic, help us to be genuine and help us to achieve God.
Speaker 0:I still believe that this is the year of elevation. God, show us what that elevation looks like. Help us to become the people that we need to be to fulfill the purpose that you have assigned to our life, in Jesus' mighty name. God, we cannot and we will not do it without you. We need you, we need you. We need you, amen, amen, amen. I love you. God loves you. Let this be a reset reminder for you.
Speaker 0:Get yourself in order, figure out what is your February going to look like and start that today. Start working towards your goals. Do not give up. Do not throw in the towel. I know you are tired. I know it's a lot going on. I know life is lifing for you right now, but God is in control and you are capable. Take a breather, give yourself some time to rest if that's what you need, but don't give up. Don't give in. Put your hand back to the work. Finish the thing that God has started in you. I believe in you. I know you are capable. I know you can do it. I know you are so much stronger than you think you are and it's gonna be okay. It's all gonna be worth it. It's all gonna work out for your good.