Recounting God’s Great Deeds

At the start of the year, I wrote a blog post encouraging you to consider setting Kingdom Resolutions. How did you do? In that blog, I shared my own Kingdom Resolution: “I resolve to pray for the nations daily using RPGM’s prayer emails and Joshua Project’s Unreached of the Day app.” I can’t say that I met this perfectly, but I found it helpful to have set this goal to improve upon my prayer life for the nations. I’m thinking even now what my kingdom resolution(s) will be for 2026.

But before we get to our 2026 Kingdom Resolutions, let’s spend some time together recounting God’s great deeds in 2025. Too often when we pray for things God answers, we forget to circle back to thank him.

Then Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?” (Luke 17:17–18, ESV)

Are we not just like the nine?

So, today, please join me in turning back and “praising God with a loud voice” (Luke 17:15b, ESV) for all that he has done this year!

  • Thank the Lord for bringing the Blakston family to South Sudan.

  • Rejoice that there has been growing openness to the Word by many in Central Asia.

  • Praise the Lord that he is expanding his church in Pakistan through the establishing of a new mission church this year.

  • Thank the Lord for the new members, marriages, and children that God is using to grow his church in South Asia.

  • Rejoice in the Lord for 75 years of gospel work in Japan.

  • Praise our Savior for opening an opportunity to start a new work in Thailand.

  • Thank the Lord that we met our “May Match” matching grant.

  • Thank the Lord for the provision of funds for our all-field-worker retreat in August.

  • Praise God that he provided trip participants for all our short-term trips.

  • Thank the Lord of the Harvest for those in the RPGM funnel who are being directed toward long-term service abroad and for those who are learning to be more effective senders.

  • Rejoice in the name of Jesus for his hand of protection upon his servants who safely traveled many miles on the land, on the sea, and in the air.

  • Thank the Lord for the redeeming work he has done in the lives of many brothers and sisters across the globe in RPGM’s fields and beyond!

There is much more that could be added to that list. Let me know in the comments below the great deeds of God you are thankful for from 2025. Maybe in 2026 one of my kingdom resolutions will be to remember to thank God for his great deeds more often.

Heather is Executive Director of RP Global Missions. When she's not traversing the globe, she can be found at her home in Colorado taking pictures of the sky and hiking with her dog, Pepita.

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