INSTRUCTIONS: Happy New Year! Today you will have the opportunity to wrap up 2025 and kick off 2026 through this online message. You can use these questions for discussion as a family or with friends or your small group. You can also use these for personal reflection. Watch the online devotional and you can pause when promoted to answer each section of questions of simply do it after or on your own time.
- PART 1: REFLECTING BACK ON 2025:
What was a highlight for you from this Christmas?
What were some highlights of the past year of 2025?
What were some things that were challenging or difficult this past year?
What can you be thankful for from this past year?
What did God teach you this past year?
Who was God to you this past year?
- PART 2: LOOKING FORWARD TO 2026:
What are you looking forward to in 2026?
What are not you looking forward to in 2026?
What are you hoping to see happen in 2026?
Who do you want to be in 2026?
How will you seek God and seek to engage with Him in 2026?
What is your plan to engage with God. With God’s Word? With God’s People? With God’s Mission?
- READ: Ephesians 3:14-21. Make OBSERVATIONS. What does this tell me about God and what He promises me?
Make this your prayer for 2026:“Heavenly Father, Help me to engage with you MORE. Work in me to make me MORE like you. Use me to help MORE people know you. Make my story about your glory! Amen.”