Just imagine – you only have 61 days left in 2007 and in 62 days, you will be entering 2008! This means Thanksgiving is almost here and Christmas is just around the corner. This provides us time with friends and family. The final two months of this year, what will be your priorities? Let me suggest the following:

1. Evaluate where you are with the Lord, and strategize to take a quantum leap in your faith in the year 2008.
2. Assess your relationships with family and friends and plan now how to experience special moments with them over the next 61 days.
3. Consider your relationship to your church in every way and insure that before the end of the year, all matters are right with others and with God, including the decision to honor God financially through your church with at least one-tenth of all God has given you in 2007. You have 61 days to insure rightness in at least this one area of your life.
4. Examine your vocation, career, and calling in life, making a commitment that in 2008, you will seize the opportunities God affords you to experience.
5. Bless the Lord by doing something that will stretch you in your faith in the year 2008 . . . for example . . .

• A trip to the Holy Land with Jeana and I on March 11-20 and/or
• A mission experience across the seas or even somewhere here in North America and/or
• A radical commitment to service right here in your local church’s ministry that goes on in Northwest Arkansas

Are you ready to prepare to enter the next year of your life? Life runs so fast these days that if you delay some of those thoughts and decisions, you will look up February 1 and think, “Well, I missed it again.”

Let’s get with it these last 61 days of 2007, so we can explode spiritually in 2008!