I already started my 2013 devotional before the New Year. I chose “The Quiet Place” by Nancy Leigh DeMoss for this year; however, I peeked and began reading it the last week of December. I am glad that I did because each day she wrote focusing on one letter of the word P-R-I-O-R-I-T-I-E-S. Here are her main thoughts. May we begin the year with these priorities!

P-Prayer;
R-Review God’s priorities;
I-Inventory – determining in practical terms whether our lives bear out the chief purposes of God;
O-Order our schedule according to God’s priorities;
R-Resist the tyranny of the urgent;
I-Input from others to help us determine God’s priorities for various seasons of life;
T-Take advantage of the time God gives you;
I-Identify the “little foxes” that rob you of your time and “clutter” your life;
E-Experience each moment and season to its absolute fullest;
S-Stay sensitive and fully surrendered to Him.

Nancy also mentions, “Not until about a hundred years ago did the word priorities (plural) even exist.  Priority was simply a singular word, from the Latin prior, meaning “first.” And only one thing can be first, right? Leave it to our own harried generation to turn “priority” into a dozen competing alternatives vying for our attention. The number one priority for every child of God – married, single, young, old, male, female, in every season of life – is our walk with God.”

Blessings,

Kathy Withers

Kathy’s on staff at America’s KESWICK in the Development Department. Kathy has been married to her husband Dave for 26 years.  They have two adult children. Kathy is active in her local Church and has previously served as a Teaching Director for Community Bible Study. Her passion is to encourage women to deepen their walk with Jesus Christ by finding and living out the truths of God’s Word.