Hi, friend. I'm so grateful you've joined me on the Jesus Over Everything show. If you haven't heard the news, we have gone retro this summer. For the months of June and July, we are featuring our five word prayers daily. The show, this show started as, and so many of you love so much, five-minute podcast shows on topics of all kinds, the short inspiration you need for every day of the week.

So enjoy these shows, keep listening all summer, and see you right here back in August for a

powerful season six.

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 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

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