If, after praying about the NEXT Spiritual Challenge card you received, you feel God is leading to try something different, please choose from the following challenges:
1a. Read Joseph’s story from Genesis chapters 37, 39 – 48 over the next month. Ask God to show you the parallels between your faith walk and Joseph’s. Journal each day about what you learn and share it with two other believers.
2b. Choose a “secret brother or sister” in our church body and ask the Father to show you five kind things that you can secretly do to encourage them this month.
3a. For the next 3 months, pick a “no media” night each week. Turn off the TV and other media and read your Bible for 15 minutes. Follow it with prayer and invite your family or roommate to join in.
3b. Take a bag of quarters to a laundry-mat and hang out for three hours on a Saturday. Give people quarters and chat with them while you do your own laundry too. Do this three Saturdays in the next two months.
4a. Once a week pick a psalm and rewrite it in your own words. Do this for a month and share what you wrote with a different believer each week.
4b. For one week write three emails a day that have no purpose other than to encourage someone.
7a. Memorize the 17th chapter of John's gospel. See how many times you can quote sections of it in conversation without specifically drawing attention to it.
7b. Ask two teenagers that are not related to you how you can best pray for them. Pray for them every day for two weeks and then ask them again.
14b. Bake cookies and find a neighbor you don't know to receive them. Do this at least once a week for a month. Pray for them before and after each delivery.
16a. Looking online or in a book of prayers, find three written prayers that touch your heart. For the next month, choose one each day as your prayer for that day. Read or recite it three times each day. Email one of the prayers to at least one friend each week.
18a. Journal every day for a month about what you believe God wants to do in your life NEXT. Share it with 3 other believers.
20a. Take a one-month fast from 3 foods you love. Besides 3 prayer partners, keep it a secret.