Last year when we anticipated the year 2020, there was great optimism.
Different pastors did sermon series that bounced off on 2020, like 20/20 Vision, or 2020: Clear Vision for your Life.
However, most plans went awry in 2020!
Instead of coming up with a plan for 2021, I would like to suggest a great prayer for 2021.
It is Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians 1:18-20:
“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places.”
In 2021, if we are to grow more intimate with Christ, we all need to keep on renewing our minds in our true identity in Christ.
Believers who have a lack of awareness of who they are in Christ will be prone to miss out on all the privileges that are ours in Him.
Paul prayed that our spiritual eyes will be enlightened, which is the ministry of the Holy Spirit as we read the Word.
Let’s trust Him to do that for us in 2021.
2020 has been a challenge for each one of us, so we all need hope:
“So that you will know what is the hope of His calling.”
We need a different focus in 2021.
Biblical hope is a confident expectation about of future in Christ.
Our plans can easily fall apart, but God’s will not.
So we can be absolutely confident that God is putting everything under the headship of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that we, as believers, share in this plan.
It will culminate in us ruling with Christ in the Millennium and in the Eternal State in the New Earth.
Paul also prays for us that we will know
“what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.”
We must always remember that our self-worth, as believers, is tied to our relationship to Christ.
If we feel we are not worth very much, we need to know that we have infinite worth to Christ because we are His Inheritance!
Paul also prays for us that we will know
“what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places.”
It is very easy for us to get distracted by the results of the election and those in positions of political power, but we need to focus in 2021 on the
“surpassing greatness of His power.”
Look at what kind of power we have in Christ as we tap into it by faith,
“with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places.”
In 2021, my prayer for all of us is that our eyes will be opened more or more to the incomparable greatness of our wonderful Savior!
Blessings!
Pastor Ken Keeler, Director of Church Ministries
Thank you Ken!
Your welcome Ed, I sensed a special leading of the Lord as I wrote this one, with all that is going on with Covid and the political spectrum, we as believers need to focused on all we have in Christ in 2021.