Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the

word, prayers, in our heart. I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me,

which I trust and pray, will be five minutes well spent. So we're calling October our growing up,

moving on month on the Five-Word Prayers Daily, because let's be honest, all of us have some areas of our life we want and need

to mature in so we can get on with it. Last week, we dove into all things social media, and this

week I want to get into an area some of us might not think of to focus on for October, but

usually wait to think about in January, sort of establishing some new patterns and goals for our lives. But look,

we don't have to wait until January to talk about this, and we're actually going to go into

something a little more in depth when we talk this week about having a life mission. First of all,

establishing even where we are right now, and then where we want and need to go, and most importantly, where God

is calling us right now. It'll be an important week on the show, so stay with me all week,

and let's jump right in. We've talked about this on the show before when we've talked about

family, the importance of establishing a family mission. And I talked about it personally the show before when we've talked about family, the importance of establishing

a family mission. And I talked about it personally for the individual in my book, Put Your Warrior

Boots on. I touched on it in there because I believe it's vitally important for us to have both.

If, in fact, we're married and with or without kids, but we have a family unit in that way

to have a family mission for

our family. And if we are single, or even if we do have that family, just as an individual,

I believe it's crucial to have our own mission in life and have that become an actual

mission statement that we live by. Because it really helps mark our life. It helps establish in our own

hearts and minds what we are here on earth for. Verbalizing it and vocalizing it and writing it

down helps create a climate, if you will, for how we live. And in that, we become accountable to

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