By Cherrilynn Bisbano @bisbanowrites

I don’t usually make New Year’s Resolutions but this year I commit to pray for each of you daily.  I also will post a weekly prayer on the Blue Ridge Writers Facebook page.

Why do I storm the gates of heaven on your behalf?

I pray because you are my brothers and sisters; we all belong to the body of Christ.

I pray because you may experience rejection this year. Rejection is not the end of the world. I think of it as redirection. Remember, God is in control, and He will use you in His time and His place.

I pray because the advisory wants to devour you. His mission is to render the writer useless. He wants you to feel inadequate, alone, and worthless to the kingdom. Face your fear and defeat the evil one with the Word of God and stand firm. God has chosen you for such a time as this.

I pray out of selfish motives. God chose you to proclaim a message that only you can convey. I want to glean from that message.

I pray for fellowship opportunities and long-lasting friendships to be cultivated. Unity in the body begins here on earth.

I pray so that our God will be glorified in every aspect of our lives.

I pray because I know that it is your desire to serve God and please Him.

I pray Colossians 1:9-12

And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

I pray Ephesians 3:14-20

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,  so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,  may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,  and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Imagine how we’d live if we truly allowed these prayers to penetrate our soul?

Will you join me and pray for one another? God  will do amazing things.

What are you praying for this year? Join the conversation.

Cherrilynn is an award-winning writer, speaker, and coach. She loves encouraging her brothers and sister to stand firm and shine for Jesus. She is an expert in Book Proposals and memoirs. You can find her with her son, Michael at Guitar center or at the beach sea glass hunting.

Cherrilynn is a chaplain and ordained minister. She is an award-winning writer, speaker, and coach. She loves encouraging her brothers and sister to stand firm and shine for Jesus. She is an expert in Book Proposals and memoirs. She teaches writing at Christian Leaders Institute. Her book Shine Don’t Whine is helping many women overcome, fear, anxiety, perfectionism, and worry. She considers it an honor to be published twice in Chicken Soup for the Soul-; Award-winning books, Kiss Guilt GoodBye,  Heart Reno, Breaking the Chains, Love Knots 3, and Get to the Margins Author’s Anthology.

Her book Shine Don’t Whine- won the Writer to Writer publishing contract was published in 2020. You can find her with her son, Michael at Guitar center or at the beach sea glass hunting. Her newest release, Experience Immanuel Daily, ignites a desire for readers to draw close to God.

Cherrilynn proudly served in the military for twenty years, earning the John Levitow Military leadership award.  She lives with her seventeen-year-old son, Michael, Jr., and husband of 25 years, Michael, Sr.  She loves Christ, chocolate, coffee, and cats.