One of my favorite things about the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day is the opportunity to reflect and dream: to reflect on the gifts of the previous year and dream God-sized dreams for the year to come.

Here are 15 questions I’m prayerfully asking myself as 2024 wraps up and 2025 begins. The beginning of a new year is a grand time to have a conversation with God. Ask Him these questions and listen for His response! These are also great questions to ask a trusted friend.

The presents are unwrapped and your tree may be put away. But there are still conversations to unwrap and discoveries to reveal. The best is yet to come!

Haggai 1:7

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.” (Haggai 1:7)

  • 1

    Where was your favorite place you traveled to this year so far? What made if your favorite?

  • 2

    What was the best book you read this year? The book lovers you love will make you break this down into categories: Best History, Best Fiction, Best Read-By-the-Pool.

  • 3

    What were some of the best movies you watched this year?

  • 4

    When you look back over the year, what was your favorite part? It may be valuable to break this down into categories: What was your favorite part of classes? Sports? Church? Friends? Travel? Family?

  • 5

    What was the hardest part of your year?

  • 6

    What did you do well this past year?

  • 7

    In what ways did God work through you this year? What does that say about how God might want to work through you in the year to come?

  • 8

    What is the most significant thing happening in your life right now?

  • 9

    What’s one action you can take this year to grow in your enjoyment of God?

  • 10

    What is your greatest source of wasted time? What will you replace it with?

  • 11

    What passion project will you work on this year? Put it on your calendar!

  • 12

    How is God inviting you to serve your church?

  • 13

    What one habit do you most want to build this year?

  • 14

    We live best in community. Who are two people God is inviting you to build relationships with this year?

  • 15

    If you were to ask God to do a miracle this year, what would it be?

The Question Habit

Asking questions and listening well can take every relationship deeper.