Discernment: So necessary!

How to Pray Through the Entire Year – One Month at a Time

Whitney Hopler

Updated Dec 29, 2025

September: Pray for wisdom to discern the truth.

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September, with its transition back to routine and learning, is an important time for you to focus on praying for the wisdom to discern the truth. In this fallen world, where you often hear conflicting messages, you need God’s help to distinguish between what’s true and what’s false, as well as what messages are coming from God and what is not. Pray for a strong commitment to God's word, the Bible, which reveals God’s truth. Psalm 119:105 says: “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.” Ask the Holy Spirit to be your constant teacher and guide as you try to figure out what’s worth paying attention to, and how to make wise decisions day by day.

Pray specifically for the discernment you need to make the best choices in every part of your life. Also, pray for courage to stand up for the truth, even when doing that is unpopular or challenging for you. Praying for wisdom to discern the truth during September will help you keep learning and growing in your relationship with God.

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While all the other kinds of prayers that are stated in these articles, this one is especially important.

Jesus himself warned us of the false teachers that are in the world that would try to deceive us.

And they are still here today. Turning an alarming number away from the truth, because they make false claims and promise to rob people of their money.

If you have been with me long, you know that I have covered this before. And I know I have not done the justice that this topic deserves.

If you haven't before, do a study on this subject.

There are many YouTube channels dedicated to calling out these people that would willingly steal your last penny for their good, not yours. 

Friends, we have to know who it is that we are listening to.

Don't take just any one's word that they have the truth.

Fact check them against the Bible, to avoid the deceit that they preach. Don't just take them (including myself) at their word.

They may sound good.

They may make promises and prophesies that never come true.

But if a false teacher's prophesy's do not come true, and they say something that God did not say, you can know to stop listening to them. 

They will lead you away from the truth in everything he says.

Look it up.

Deuteronomy 18:22   

I include myself in telling you this.

Make sure what I am telling you is the truth.

Don't just take my word. Compare it with the Bible.

It is too important.

It could mean your eternal judgement to follow someone that is telling you lies.

Especially if they are at the same time, robbing you of your money. 

Thanks for coming today, Friends.

Have a blessed day!

Trust God

How to Pray Through the Entire Year – One Month at a Time

Whitney Hopler

Updated Dec 29, 2025

August: Pray for God’s provision and trust.

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As summer winds down and the harvest season starts, August is a great time to focus your prayers on God’s generous provision for you, and to strengthen your trust in God for the future. You can’t stop worries from entering your mind, but you can choose what to do with those anxious thoughts. Whenever you notice that you’re worrying about something – like your family, health, or job – turn your worries into prayers and choose to trust God to handle each of those situations. Pray for a strong faith to really believe that God will meet every single one of your needs, in the best ways, and at the best times. Jesus advises you in Matthew 6:33 to focus on your relationship with God and trust that God will give you everything you need as you do so: “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”

Pray for the peace and confidence of knowing that you have a perfectly trustworthy Heavenly Father who loves you completely and unconditionally. Ask God to help you recognize the ways he has already provided for you in the past, and let that gratitude build your faith for the present and future. Pray for contentment with what you have, and the discernment to manage those resources faithfully. Focusing on God’s provision during August will help you strengthen your ability to trust him throughout the year. 

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Sometimes, trusting God to work things out in our lives isn't easy. We think that somehow, we have to figure out our own problems. That can often plunge us head on into even more trouble that we had in the first place. 

But God wants us to lean not on our own understanding and trust in Him, and he will direct the ways we should go. Proverbs 3:5-6

As we do this, we can begin to see how He will work out the details of our lives, and those details can become miracles.

How do I know this? Because it has happened in my own life. And it can for you, as well!

Thanks for coming by, Friends. Have a blessed day!

 

Hospitality

 

How to Pray Through the Entire Year – One Month at a Time

Whitney Hopler

Updated Dec 29, 2025

July: Pray for hospitality.

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July is often filled with gatherings with family and friends. This is a wonderful month to focus your prayers on hospitality. Pray that God would lead you to opportunities to use your resources (like your time, your money, and your home) to bless others. Romans 12:13 encourages you to: “Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.” Don’t worry about how big your home is or how clean and organized it is. If you’re not able to host people well at home, you can host them somewhere else, like at a park or at a restaurant. What’s most important with hospitality is just having an open heart to welcome and serve people. Ask for the spiritual gift of generosity and a heart that’s eager to serve.

Pray for the wisdom to discern where God wants you to invest your hospitality efforts. You can volunteer regularly for a community organization, invite people from your church to go out to lunch with you after a worship service, or reach out to someone who is lonely and invite that person to meet you somewhere to talk and get to know each other better. Praying for hospitality in July can help you develop a closer relationship with God by letting God’s love flow through your life and into other people’s lives.

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This one was always a hard one for me. Because for years we lived in a mobile home and it was crowded with my husband and myself and our four children. Thankfully, time and events change sometimes for the good and though my current home is not huge or extravagant, it is comfortable enough for me to have my now adult children and their children and friends as well, to come and enjoy the holidays or other events with me.

This author points out that if we are unable to provide our home for this purpose, there are other ways and places that can be used.

Of course, money is another matter as well.

The idea is that the verse in Romans does say to be hospitable to people. It is a good way to serve, to get to know people, and to show God's love to them. It is something that I have had to learn over the years because for many of those years, I did not have the ability to provide this because of our circumstances.

How about you?

Are you able to share with others in this way?

If not, pray about how you can. God can open up ways for you to provide hospitality to those around you. 

Sometimes they can come in as simple as a picnic, or a potluck.

Thanks for coming by today, Friends.

Have a blessed day.

Rest for the Weary Soul

 

How to Pray Through the Entire Year – One Month at a Time

Whitney Hopler

Updated Dec 29, 2025

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June marks the beginning of summer, which is often a busy time with fun activities like travel. This month is an important time to pray for help from the Holy Spirit to rest during all the excitement, so you can be as healthy as possible spiritually, mentally, and physically. Pray for protection while you travel, and also for protection from becoming so busy that you neglect your relationship with God. Do your best to follow the example Jesus set of how to rest well in order to focus well on what matters most.

Make it a priority to get enough sleep every night, and be encouraged by Psalm 4:8: “In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety.” Ask God to help you set healthy boundaries for work and leisure, so you can have enough time every day to rest well and recharge your energy to live every day God gives you to the fullest.

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Hello, Friends. All of these articles have been really good prayer advice. And this one today is no less important for us.

As is said, even Jesus knew the importance of rest. With the worries of the world, and our own everyday problems can tend to forget them for a while just to relax?

To dwell in God's safety as David of old did. 

I know an elderly woman that even though she is a Christian, she has never been fully able to do that. The holidays come and it throws her into her past where she was happy. And then things eventually began to change for her, and she can't let it go. Even though she is living a fairly, albeit not perfect (whose life is perfect?), good life. 

Most of us have times like that. Happy until tragedy or other situations arise.

Some of us get through them okay, and some of us don't.

Spending time to rest, have fun, be with family, is a wonderful thing that can keep those happy times continue.

Put with that is sticking close to the Savior that knew Himself the importance of rest and it makes so much difference.

Not that we still don't go through mourning or sadness. No, those times still try to creep up on us. But, learning not to stay in them but to determine to move on despite them, and even thanking God for the ability to do so, is good for our soul too. To let ourselves in body and spirit heal from those things that would keep us down.

Something that my friend, has never allowed herself to do.

Sadly, so many people aren't able to or perhaps don't want to because maybe they feel guilty for wanting that...

Thanks for coming by today, Friends. Have a wonderful and blessed day!