Happy Thursday everyone and welcome to this week’s installment of the Joy Dare. I cannot believe it has been 8 months on this journey.
I have found this most helpful in my prayer time. In recent years as I have sought to grow in my prayer time but I always struggled with feeling and knowing I was forgetting important parts of prayer. So I went back to the very simple but effective Acrostic ACTS
ACTS
- Adoration (Praise)
- Confession (admitting and repenting of sin)
- Thanksgiving (Gratitude)
- Supplication ( prayer Requests)
I don’t strictly follow these in order though it REALLY helps my scatter brained nature in line. So I just added the Joy dare into the Thanksgiving section of my prayer time
8/27/2021-9/2/2021
Day 27- 3 Gifts New
- New Beginnings
- New School Year
- New Journal to start next week
Day 28- 3 gifts long awaited
- New church- still waiting- making closer steps
- Soccer season has started
- Wrapping up a study
Day 29- A gift one, two, three
- One – God to worship and Praise
- Two- more days left in August
- Three-Planners- school, mobile (as in it goes with me)
Day 30- 3 Gifts small
- little changes that change a church culture
- words of encouragement- insignificant on their own- powerful when put together
- a smile- full of love yet often taken for granted
Day 31- 3 miracles
- every new day-to write a part of your Story Lord through it we get to share Jesus with the world
- Jesus- everything about him!
- flowers- They can withstand storms, poring rain and some can even withstand Cold and snow. They remain beautiful through the storm- what a testament to God’s care
Day 1- 3 Gifts of summer
- Adventures with Friends
- warm sunny weather
- longer days (aka more sunlight)
Day 2-3 gifts cut
- Rosie’s haircut she is much cooler now
- Family time Cut out of a very Busy Schedule
- Paper Scraps cut to make cards
So how about you? What are some of the little things you are thankful this week and bring you great Joy. I know as I get older I am discovering that it’s the simple little things that bring me some of the greatest Joy!
Want more information about Joy Dare or One Thousand Gifts You can check them out on Ann Voskamp’s website.
And you Can check out my other Joy Dare posts
Also this is Day 18 of My Choosing Courage 100 day writing project. You can check out the rest of the series here
