026: The Single Most Important Factor in Your Decision-Making as a Christian
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Are you struggling with decision-making and wondering if you're truly hearing from God? In this episode, I share my journey from being the world’s biggest overthinker to becoming a confident decision-maker, all by the grace of God. You'll hear how a last-minute calling led me to launch the 31 Days of Prayer Challenge in just 15 days—and how God's fingerprints were all over it. We’ll dive deep into the biggest factor in making better decisions—your relationship with God—and practical steps to strengthen your faith so you can confidently discern His will. Plus, I’ll give you an actionable challenge to start spending daily time with God and making Him a priority in your life.
Links From This Episode:
✨ 31 Days of Prayer Challenge – Join at anchoreddecisions.com/thrive2025
✨ Divine Discernment Workshop – Sign up at anchoreddecisions.com/ddworkshop
✨ My Blog Post on How God Called Me to Decision Coaching – https://www.anchoreddecisions.com/blog/from-burnout-to-calling
✨ The SAIL Method for Decision-Making – Listen to Episode 3 or read more on my blog
✨ ACTS prayer framework: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication
✨ YouVersion Bible App
✨ MomCo faith-based mom's group
✨ Show notes & links: anchoreddecisions.com/26
Bible verses mentioned:
📖 James 4:8 - Draw near to God and he will draw near to you.
📖 Psalm 119:11 - I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
📖 Jeremiah 29:13 - If you seek me, you will find me, if you seek me with all of your heart
📖 Isaiah 30:21 - Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
Key Points:
🔑 My history of struggling with indecision
🔑 How God called me to decision-making and why I finally had to commit
🔑 How I heard from God and acted fast, knowing it was from Him
🔑 The #1 factor in making better decisions: closeness with God
🔑 How overthinking, external dependence, decision fatigue, and insecurity in hearing from God keep us stuck
🔑 How to Hear God More Clearly in Your Decisions
🔑 Spending consistent time in prayer and Bible study
🔑 Journaling prayers to focus, reflect, and recognize God’s responses
🔑 Finding Christian community for encouragement and accountability
🔑 Practicing discernment—learning how God speaks to YOU
🔑 Your Action Step for the Week: Make daily time with God a non-negotiable habit—schedule it in your calendar!
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Transcript
Hello friends, welcome back to the Anchored Decisions Show. If you are new here, this is the launch of season two of the show. I took off for the holidays and we're doing some renovations, so it's been good to catch a little break, but I am excited to be back. So what can you expect from season two of the Anchored Decisions Show?
Well, lots more content on decision making, how to invite God into your decisions, how to hear from him and discover your path and your purpose. And also lots of guest episodes on things like how to make decisions about whatever their topic of expertise is or stories of people from their decisions and how they came to that conclusion. Or stories from people about how they've heard from God and found their path or their calling. So I hope that this season is a blessing to you and feel free to make requests of any topics that you're looking for. I know somebody asked last season for requests on how to make decisions around your investments, so I have two episodes coming up in April related to finances and investing. So any request you want to make, just head to anchoreddecisions.com/podcast, and you can scroll to the bottom and make a request there.
I also want these episodes to be very practical. So, I want each episode to end with an action step and I'm also going to be ending each episode with a prayer. So season one I asked all of my guests some rapid fire decision questions. I'm dropping that for this season. It was fun, but there was no point to it, but I want you to get something out of every episode so that's why we will be covering them in prayer and be having the action step added. And I will be dropping episodes every other week on Thursdays with a few bonus episodes on Fridays, if it's a two-part series.
And one more quick announcement before we dive into the content today is that I will be hosting a free workshop on March 6th at 8 PM Eastern titled Divine Discernment: How to Seek and Discover God's Direction for Your Decision. So if you are facing a big decision right now, I encourage you to sign up for this workshop at anchoreddecisions.com/ddworkshop.
So now with that said, let's dive in to today's topic. Today I'll be diving into the single most important factor in your decision making. Any guesses as to what that might be? You're going to have to stay tuned to find out.
Intro: Welcome to the Anchored Decisions Show. I'm your host, Lauren Black, the world's biggest overthinker turned decision coach, all by the grace of God. Now I'm on a mission to help you make easier decisions, discover God's will and live with purpose. Tune in weekly to hear real life decision stories, expert insights, and faith based strategies to help you navigate your decisions with confidence. So ditch your pros and cons list and learn to make better decisions without asking your mom or losing another night of sleep. Let's go.
All right, so as you heard in my little jingle there, I used to be the world's worst decision maker, the biggest overthinker. I mean, not worst in the fact that, like, I wasn't choosing bad things like drugs and sabotaging my family, things like that. Not making poor life decisions. I just wasn't good at making decisions, so I could not stick with the things that I would choose. I would get buyer's remorse over things like my house, my car, even starting a new job, and those aren't things that you want to be flip flopping on. It causes a lot of setbacks in life if you're constantly changing paths. I quit my corporate job back in 2015 at the end of 2015 and launched my graphic design business first.
And I wasn't feeling fulfilled in my graphic design business. I felt like it was too hard for me as a solo person to run a sustainable business that made as much as I wanted to make. So I knew I needed to add some sort of passive income or other route to make income that wasn't so feast or famine where I'd market, market, market my business, and then fill it up with clients, spend all the, my time working on client projects, and then when I'd finish them, I was left with no clients and needed to then market, market, market. Just wasn't sustainable.
So I started adding in all these other business things and I would go down one path and start marketing for that and build an audience. And then change my mind and then I'd start down another path and start building an audience there and change my mind. And it really kept me from growing and building any one set business. And I wasn't willing to even just problem solve better within the business that I had, I would just throw in the towel.
And so that was me in everything. Like I would make returns on clothes and on home decor items that I'd bring home. I would constantly change my mind on, you know, "Oh yes, let's have a baby". "No, let's not. I'm not ready." And so every little decision in my life, I would overthink, I would drag it out. I would flip flop and change my mind.
That wasn't healthy. And this was all up until God called me to work on my decision making and to help others with decision making as well. So now I know, okay, I have to stick with this because he called me to it and I can't be flip flopping on this. So here I am today.
But let's fast forward a little bit to this last December. So right now as we're recording this, it's January. And in this last December, I was in the middle of working on something. I actually still do my graphic design business. I just don't market it. And so I was working on a client project and all of a sudden I felt God laying something on my heart. I heard him say 31 days of prayer for the new year. And I grabbed a piece of paper and a pen, and I wrote that down because it was just like this random spontaneous thought that came to me in the middle of doing my design work, and I knew this had to have been something from God.
Now this was December 16th. My kids were about to be out of school starting on December 20th. So I had 15 days to throw this together. I have never taken action on something so fast.
Usually I'm the type to think about it and overthink about it and prayer journal about it and ask people about it and talk to my spouse before jumping in. I mean, partly I'm an ideas person. So if you ask my husband or my biz bestie or any of my close friends, you'll know that I am constantly coming up with new grand ideas for new products, new services, new promotions, as you can tell from before, when I had all these businesses, I would start to pursue.
So it's not like me nowadays to just jump on something that I have a thought of. I have learned to not jump on every squirrel that comes into my brain, or I'd never make progress on anything. Been there, done that. But I just knew that this was from God and I needed to get started ASAP if I were to make it happen in time.
I only had 15 days before January 1st and let me tell you, God showed up. So I ran Facebook ads for my first time ever, which are the most confusing things ever. But it told me my performance was 85% better than most people's ads. I'm like, well, okay. And then I found guests to provide prayers for all 31 days, minus the three days I had selected to do myself at the beginning, which I was blown away by that at the most busy time of the year, I could find guests to record a prayer for this prayer challenge and provide prayer journal prompts and a Bible verse.
And there were certain times throughout the challenge where I would schedule someone for a certain day and then have to change it to rearrange things and when I'd move their date, they'd be like, "Oh, that new date is so perfect for me." So there were just all these like God fingerprints all over the challenge and I myself grew in my faith and spent more time in prayer and Bible study because of it, especially over Christmas break.
So it just overall, in the end, looking back, it's like, yes, this was totally a God thing. And I'm so glad that I knew his voice good enough to jump on it. And so what were the factors that helped me be able to get to this point overall that I am so much more decisive?
So number one was just God calling me to decision making because he knew I needed it. If you want to hear the full story of that calling, just go on my blog, anchoreddecisions.com/blog. It's the first blog post. I'm not going to go into details here. But then I started studying decision making. I knew I needed to improve if I were to even be able to help others at all. I had to help myself first and then I follow my own framework.
So that's the SAIL method, S A I L. That is my three step process of how to make easier, more confident decisions. So if you want to learn more about that one, the SAIL method, then listen to episode three of the podcast, or I also have a blog post on that one.
And then I've started practicing decision making and making faster decisions. I've gotten more decisive because I start trusting myself more. The more that I make choices on my own and not depending on other people around me.
And then finally, what you're here for with this episode, the single most important factor in me being a better decision maker is drawing closer to God. So I'll say that again.
The single most important piece in your decision making is your relationship with God, because the deeper your intimacy with Him, the clearer your path becomes.
Now before I dive into that, let's look at some core reasons that people struggle with decisions.
So number one is overthinking. I've mentioned that that used to be me. That could be overthinking out of fear of, you know, judgment from others, fear of making the wrong decision, fear of choosing something you won't like in the end, fear of making a permanent decision, which most decisions aren't permanent, but we often think of them as bigger deals than they, they are. Perhaps we're overthinking because of trauma from past experiences that we have made poor decisions or didn't like the results.
Or we are second guessing ourselves because we lack confidence in ourselves. And that could be just a internal issue that we need to work out with ourselves or it could be from those past experiences. And then another reason people struggle with decisions is we have external dependence. Which I definitely suffered from before as well, where we have to, not have to, but we feel the need to look to others for their opinions. So we want their approval. We want their insight, their direction, which sometimes part of my process is actually to look for wise insight from people who have been there, done that. But sometimes we get so dependent on it that we stop being able to make choices on our own.
We almost look for a scapegoat sometimes that if something goes wrong, we'll have someone else to blame and don't have to deal with the guilt of feeling like we made a bad choice. Or sometimes we literally get so lost in our own head and we cannot, for the life of us, see the forest through the trees that we just desire for someone else to give us that direction.
We could also just be so burnt out from decision making, it's called decision fatigue. It's a real thing where your brain makes so many decisions that it just shuts down and doesn't want to continue making decisions. So we put the decision off onto someone else.
Another reason that people struggle with decisions is our insecurity in hearing from God. So we're not sure if what we've heard was actually a call from God or was just in our head or was the devil trying to distract us and lead us astray. So all of these factors can cause us to be poor decision makers, or just not good at making the actual decision. So how does a closeness with God help with these issues?
Well, in James 4:8, he talks about "Draw near to God and he will draw near to you." Relationships are two ways. If you had a friend that you were constantly texting and calling and they never answered and never texted back, then that relationship would fizzle. So recently I was driving and I got a phone call that came through and it didn't show the name up on the dashboard of my car.
So I answered it. You know, could have been spam, but whatever I answered and I did not recognize the voice on the other line. It was someone I hadn't talked to in over four years. And so she starts talking and I had to, I looked on my phone to see who is this. Even though she said her name, I still wasn't quite sure, like who, like which, which of this name.
And so I looked on my phone and it had the last name on my phone. I was like, oh, and then because we hadn't talked in four years, I was like, okay, clearly she has the wrong Lauren. And then she mentioned my son's name. I'm like, nope, she's got the right Lauren. Why is she calling me? So that relationship, it had been over four years.
I didn't recognize her voice because it had been so long since we had talked. And it's the same way with God. If we distance ourself from him because we're the ones that step away, then we lose track of how he speaks to us. We have a hard time recognizing what's his voice and determining what's his versus just our thoughts.
And so we need that closeness with God in order to recognize his voice. And when he does speak with you, in order to know clearly, yes, this was God. And also, if you think about it, if you're not actively in a relationship with God, then is he going to be actively speaking with you? So the more that we connect with him, the more often we will hear with him.
It's also like, if you have a kid or a friend that only comes to you when they need something, and they don't actually want to be friends with you or hang out, then are you going to be willing to answer them and give them what they want when they come asking for things? So being in an active relationship with God means that you're not just coming to him when you need something and not just asking him to speak to you when you want to hear from him, but you are praising him and connecting with him, worshiping, sharing your heart with him, laying things down at his feet at the throne. So be in that active relationship.
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Now, another way that connecting with God helps us to hear from him and discern his will and helps with our decisions is that a lot of times God speaks to us through the actual things that we're doing to draw closer to him. So when we start reading our Bible, there may be a verse that just jumps off the page to us that might be around one of the topics we've been seeking him for. Or maybe we've been struggling with something and our devotional that day happens to address it. Maybe the sermon at church speaks to us in a certain way. But you have to be actively engaging in those things in order for God to use them to speak to you.
I know at one point in college, I was questioning whether or not I should do something. And three times in three completely different circumstances, the same verse surfaced. It was at church one day, at my Bible study, and then in my personal devotional time, the same verse came up three times that was directly related to the thing I'd been praying over. And it made it very clear to me that yes, this is the path I need to take.
Psalm 119:11 says, "I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you". And I think that's important that the more we dive into his word, it stays in our heart and we might not even remember the verse off the top of our head, but then one day we'll be in a situation and we'll be thinking about what path to take and God might let that verse or that sermon or that podcast we listened to surface.
And so we need to be in those things in order to have them surface. They need to be in our heart in order for God to draw that out. And yes, he can always speak to us and give you a word that you'd never heard before. But a lot of times he does bring up things that you'd already heard and dove into and scriptures you've read before in order to speak to us.
All right, another way that drawing close to God will help us in our decisions is that it helps us align our heart with His. So our desires start to mirror God's desires. We start caring more about kingdom work and serving others than serving ourselves. So this can make decisions easier because some things will be an immediate no, if they're not aligned with God and His ways and what's in the Bible. Because we know it's in the Bible. We've been reading it. Other things might be an immediate yes, because we know it's kingdom building. It's aligned with God's ways and his will .
You might be at the grocery store and you just feel this nudge to go pray for a certain person. It looks like they're struggling. And at first you might dismiss it as like, "Oh no, that's crazy talk. That's just, why would I do that? That's weird. They're going to think I'm weird. They're not going to accept the prayer". But if you have been in the word and praying and study, and you know that, okay, actually this is kingdom aligned, this, what's the worst that can happen? The person says, no, don't pray over me. And at least you tried.
So yeah, just taking those little steps of faith. And once you start listening to God and the little things and taking those steps and seeing how the fruit comes about, then it gives you the confidence to keep moving forward and you start to recognize his voice.
So the more attuned we are to God, the more we'll be used to hearing from him, the more we'll build that confidence in what he's telling us to do and whether or not it's our voice, the devil, or God, and we know and understand his peace.
So let's go back to my story of hearing from God on doing this 31 day prayer challenge for January.
How did I hear him so clearly and know so confidently enough to be able to just jump in and do this? Well, one, I've been deep in my relationship with God lately. I feel like every time that I get into the habit of prayer journaling, where I actually get out a notebook and write out my prayers, instead of just trying to pray in my head, I start to really focus on what I'm saying.
I can take my prayer life a lot deeper. I can write down things when I hear God speaking to me and have those to refer back to that, or even prayers that I struggled with that over and over. I'd write down in my journal and then later he answers, I can go back and see how he answered. And so I've been spending more time journaling my prayers, and that has just been such a game changer.
I've been really aligned with him by seeking him, spending time in Bible studies and prayer and making sure that I'm attending church regularly and having fellowship with other believers. I've been so aligned with him and that over the last year, there have been several times where I felt God speaking to me. And so for this particular instance, I just knew this is from God.
You know, one thing God directed me to this year is I was, I had one of those crazy ideas and I was about to start just exploring the idea of building an AI tool, artificial intelligence tool, to help people make decisions. And so I was praying over it and writing in my prayer journal, and then God clearly shut that one down for various reasons. Maybe I'll do a whole episode on that. But God shut that idea down and instead directed me towards something that I've hinted at in the past and haven't fully announced. Like I announced it maybe a little bit on one Instagram story, but here's my big announcement. I am writing a devotional... a devotional on decisions and how to bring God into your decisions and then how to make godly decisions easier.
So God led me to that through my journaling time. And yeah, I definitely need to record an episode on that cause there's a really funny story that's involved that I don't have time for today, but so God was directing me towards this devotional. So because of that, I started diving into the word more on these topics that I'll be including in the devotional. And anytime that I have to teach something biblical or I'm getting ready for a speaking engagement or whatnot, I feel like that's when I have the most spiritual growth. Because I'm really diving into the word and want to make sure I know it and I'm connecting the passages and reading them in context and so I had been starting that process and really diving into the word during this time when God laid that thought on my heart of 31 day prayer challenge. So these are the ways that once you start really connecting with God, it's a game changer for your decisions.
So in that moment, when he gave me that thought, I kind of went through a little checklist in my head of things that it was aligned with. So one, was it kingdom aligned? Yes. This would be helping build God's kingdom, encouraging people to connect deeper through prayer. And then two, is this helping my business grow?
Anchored Decisions. It's my business, it's also kind of a ministry. So yes. It checks off that one that helping my business grow by, I did ads to draw in new people and I was helping build engagement with my current audience by providing this 31 days of connecting with them each day. And then did I have the time for it? Because sometimes you could have the right thing at the wrong time and it makes it the wrong thing. But at this point, I was about to go on Christmas break with my kids, which meant I was cutting back on some of the design work, my client work. I was not currently doing my podcast. I wanted to start editing all my podcast episodes over Christmas break, but you know, I did have the time to work on this. So that made sense. So it check, check, check, checked off all three boxes.
And honestly, it was so, so good. If you'd like to go through the challenge, the live version's obviously over now that we're out of January, but you can totally still go through it on your own. It's not like a dated thing. It doesn't have to be done the exact days that we did it live.
And so what it is, there's about a one to one and a half minute prayer each day. That's an audible audio prayer that you can follow along with, each on a different topic. So some are on your faith, some are for your kids, some are for the government. I mean, most are for you and building you up and drawing you closer to God and helping you to focus or have a heart for worship, things like that.
Then each day also, there's a prayer journal page that you can print out or just follow along in your own journal. And that has the transcript of the prayer written out. It has a Bible verse that goes along with the topic and then a prayer journal prompt for deeper reflection and praying. So you can get used to journaling your prayers.
So if you want to connect with and go through the prayer challenge, you can find that at anchoreddecisions.com/thrive2025 I'll throw all these links. I've mentioned in the Bible verses into my show notes at anchoreddecisions.com/26.
So anyway, let's go over a few practical steps of how to deepen your relationship with God so you can start hearing from him, because I wanted to make sure that this year's podcast episodes are very actionable, so let's learn how to actually implement this.
Number one is just to spend time with him. Spend time in prayer, not just praying to God, but also taking time to listen. So his word says, "If you seek me, you will find me, if you seek me with all of your heart", so spend time just seeking him. Ask him to come and show up and invite him into your time. And sometimes it takes consistency and that continuing to knock and seek before God shows up. But don't give up if you don't hear from him right away. This practice takes time and it's building that relationship. It's like dating. You don't jump right into marriage the first time you meet someone... you start texting and calling on the phone and you get to know each other and you do little dates and then, start spending more time together as you get to know each other better.
If you are new to prayer and you don't know where to start, or if you want to have more of a structure for your prayer, there are a bunch of little acronyms that you can do prayer structures that you can look up online. But one that's easy is ACTS, the ACTS framework. It's A C T S and that's, adoration. So start with just praising him. You can go through the Psalms if you need some help knowing how to praise him in your prayers. And then the C is confession. So confess your sins, your mistakes, where you've fallen short. T is Thanksgiving. So praise him and thank him for the things he's blessed you with and what he's done and just Jesus dying on the cross for our sins. And then the S is supplication. So this is where you bring your requests, your desires, your needs to him. And so that's an easy way that adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication to start your prayers.
And I challenge you to actually start journaling your prayers. So get out a journal and start writing them out. I know some people are fearful of having someone else read their prayer journal and know what's on their heart, but this is just between you and God. You tell your family members if you don't want them reading it or get one of those little old school diaries with a lock from like back in my elementary school days.
But journaling your prayers just allows you to focus more on what you are saying to God Allows you to concentrate and have more streamlined thoughts. I know for me sometimes if I'm just trying to pray in my head I get distracted by my to do list, or I have an idea that pops up for something for my business, or I remember something I need to do for my kids and I get distracted.
But if you are journaling your prayers, it really just opens up a different part of your brain and allows you to focus, to streamline, and then you can even go back and look at the things that you spoke with to God before, and if he speaks back to you during that time, you can write that down and you have that to refer back to, to really encourage you in your faith, to help remind you of what God said and just show you when God has answered your prayers that like, "Oh, wow, look, I was praying over this exact thing back on, whatever day." I like to date my, my prayers so I could look back and see when God answered.
And then also Bible study. So we need to be in the Bible daily. Yes, daily. Even if it's just a few short verses in the YouVersion Bible app, but I encourage you to go deeper and to start waking up earlier, spending time or spend time at night, find time when your kids are at school, maybe your lunch break, if you work.
Find the time to spend with God, because this will start connecting you to where you're hearing from him. He speaks to us through his word. You know, the Bible starts coming alive to us the more that we dive in, when you start really connecting the passages, looking up other verses that are similar to the ones you're reading.
And so you're really able to understand God's word better. Look up, if there's a quote that Jesus quotes, the Old Testament of the Bible, look up the passage. See the whole passage, because sometimes he'll mention one verse, but the entire chapter might be applicable. And so really just start diving in.
So number two is community. Find a group of Christians that you can get to know and connect with who can encourage you in your faith walk and who will help keep you accountable. So we are not created to walk this faith journey alone and having a group of people that you can be honest with and open with and that you can sharpen one another really is helpful in your faith journey and in order to start hearing from God more and find your path, your direction, his will for your decisions.
So if you are a mom, you could find a Christian mom group. There's MomCo formerly MOPS that meets at a lot of churches internationally. So just go on their website and try to find a local group or find a Bible study group at a local church, or even start a small group at your house if you don't find one. Look around, ask around in Facebook groups for your local area. But find a group of Christian women. Keep trying if you're not finding the right ones or start one yourself so that you have that community and accountability that you can bring your struggles to those people. You can ask for support and prayer.
I know that my closest group of friends, we've got a text thread going and we bring everything, the good, the bad, the ugly. We bring praise reports as well so that we're able to celebrate alongside each other when God does good things. And then when the things are hard or challenging or we're facing a decision, we can ask for prayer from those people to lift us up.
All right, the next one is to practice discernment. So start to open your heart to listening to God. You start with prayer and then you reflect on what you're praying over and then you wait. So a lot of times listening, I used to think it was just sitting there in a perfectly silent room waiting for God to give me a word. And that's not usually how he works, but a lot of times listening just means being open and waiting on the Lord to reveal himself. So if you are in the word, you are praying that, okay, God, reveal yourself to me in this passage.
And if you're praying, just, slowly praying through your prayers so you can pause and take time to really think and wait for, okay, is God going to respond in this?
Think back to any times that you did feel God spoke to you in the past and what, what was that like? Think through how he spoke to you. Did he show up in your Bible study? Did he show up in conversations with other Christians? Did he show up at church? Did he show up just in the still small voice in your head? If you think back to how he's spoken to you in the past, that's often how he will speak to you again in the future. I know in the past, I have been guilty of trying to wish and hope and dream that God would speak to me in the ways that I've heard others share their testimonies of God showing up.
Somebody that literally had a vision when she was sitting on the beach of what her family would look like and how many kids she had. And I wanted that for me. Like, Oh, just show me how many kids I should have, you know, give me a vision of it. And that's not how God speaks to me. So don't be wishing and hoping that it'll look like someone else's, or if you hear of God speaking to someone in one way, that's not how he speaks to everybody.
And so think back to your situations. And if you've never really felt like you've heard from God, just start asking. Ask him, invite him in to your life to reveal himself, to show up and just to give you the peace that he is there.
So these are the steps that you can take to start being able to hear from God, connect with him and help him to give you discernment over your decisions.
So let's give a little recap and create your action step for the day, which I want to include in every podcast episode for season two is to have an action step so that you're not just listening in vain, but that you have something you can do to make steps forward in your faith, in your decisions, in your personal life, whatever the case is.
So what was the single most important factor in your decision making? It is drawing close to God. And how can we do this? Attend church, be in fellowship with other believers, pray, and dive into the word.
So what is your one action step? It is to start spending time with God daily, and if you already do this, then I want you to start spending a little more time than usual with God daily. But don't just make it an intention. Part of this action step is to actually implement. So the best way to form new habits, this is to actually put them on your calendar so that they're a priority and not just an afterthought. So get out your calendar, schedule in time, wake up early, do whatever you have to do to spend time with God or spend more time with God this week.
So that's it for today. I'm going to pray us out and hope that you have an extremely blessed week.
Heavenly Father, I thank you so much for all of the people listening today. I pray that you would take their relationship with you deeper. I pray that you would show up in their lives as they knock and seek and just spend time with you. God connect with them in a deeper way so that they can hear your voice behind them saying, this is the way walk in it. Point them in the direction of the right decisions that you would have for them. God, that is your good, pleasing, and perfect will. And may you continue to just flourish in their life and guide them as they seek you.
We praise you and we just thank you for your love and your guidance, god. Amen.
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