My New Year’s Prayer for My Partners in Ministry

Today, i prayed and sent this prayer to those dear ones who minister most closely with me in ministry. i post it now below asking you to pray with me for them and for us and to receive the prayer as a blessing for your own precious life going forward. 

Dearest Philadelphia Church of the Nazarene DAB Members And District Staff:

As 2021 disappears in the rearview mirror behind us and 2022 arises on the highway of holiness before us, you continue in my deep and tender prayers. 

Lord Jesus, in Your Name, i pray for my partners in leadership, the DAB members and the District Staff of the Philadelphia District. Even now, i lift them and their precious families fervently before the Throne of Your Great Mercy. Remind them that whatever challenges and concerns they have are also Your own compassionate concerns, Dear God. 

O how You love us! Let the favor of Your peace and purity and power and presence rest upon us and within us. Lead us onward together in these unusual days. You can redeem these times that eternal souls may come to know You as their Savior and Lord before it’s too late. 

Enlarge our territory for Your glory. Finally, i claim Your promise in Jeremiah 29:14a CEB: “I will be present for you.” declares the Lord. Amen and Amen. 

Pastor Kerry Willis 

My Prayer for Perspective

LET US PRAY: Lord, i pray today, that we as Your beloved children would begin to realize that in the midst of our human sadness, there is also Your holy joy, in the midst of our temporary fears, there is too, Your forever peace, and in the midst of our ongoing distractions, there is surely the reality of Your deep compassion, not only flowing to us but also flowing through us to others. Amen. -kww

Amen. And Amen. 

Pastor Kerry Willis 

My Personal Prayer Almost Every Morning

i pray this personal prayer almost every morning of my life…

Lord Jesus, i want to be found living this day above and beyond worldly success… yes, being faithful, serving gladly, loving passionately, believing totally, praying always, living holiness, and thinking Christlike. 

Deo Volente — whatever You want, my Lord Jesus. Amen.

Pastor Kerry Willis  

My Sincere Prayer As A New Year Approaches

Almighty Personal God, Loving Abba Father:

You are our past, present, and future foundation. We Adore You.

Your Greatness is unrivaled. Your Holiness is unmatched.

We are grateful to You for the Year that is fading fast and for the Year that is rapidly rising.

Help us in Your New Year, Loving Abba Father, to worry less and to worship more.

We desire to teach our children to laugh by laughing with them; To teach others to love and trust by loving and trusting them.

We know that when You sent Your Love to Bethlehem’s manger, He came so we could really know You.

Yes Your Love came to be with us, to reign in us, to flow through us.

Help us in Your New Year to share Your Son, Your Spirit, and Your Everlasting Love with others.

We desire Loving Abba Father to hear Your love song in every sunrise, in the singing of the birds in our backyards, in the stories of our parents and grandparents, and in the visions of our children.

Help us to stop and to be still long enough and often enough to hear Your love songs, so that we may love You intimately, grow in life together, and light our world in Holy Spirit Unity!

On this day, we “rejoice” in Your Word and in this world You loved into being.

We are grateful to You for another New Year, for new opportunities on the horizon.

We pray for your light in darkness, for Your hope in seemingly hopeless circumstances.

We desire to be Your sent ones. Reign within us so we can effectively BE LIGHT! GO SHINE!

Forgive us where we have lived beneath our inheritance as Your children this past year.

We leave the past in your hands, and step out into the unknown New Year assured that You have already been in our future and will now go there with us, in us, and through us for Your glory.

We accept Your gift of a New Year and we praise Your name in advance for what's ahead.

We depend on You to help us be exactly who you want us to be – Your witnesses to Your world.

Yes, on this day You have made, I say “Rejoice!” And again I say, “REJOICE!”

In the name of the One called Wonderful--Jesus our Savior, our Lord for forever & today. Amen.

Pastor Kerry Willis 

My Christmastime Prayer

Dearest Father God, Your great faithfulness is like a forever fragrance to our faith especially at Christmastime. Your Spirit descended like a dove bringing Your Son from Heaven above to restore our Hope here on earth. Even now Your Presence is with us and within us. Blessed Holy Days are indeed what You’ve given to us for yet another December. We love you more than ever before because You first loved us the very most! Amen. -kww 

Blessed Holy Days to you.

Pastor Kerry Willis 

Before The Morning

A dear friend sent me this song after we prayed together over a desperate situation happening in real time. The Lord heard our prayers and in moments the tide turned. The words in this song are for someone. Yes, for my friend, for me, and maybe for you, as well. 

https://youtu.be/6Hcwd5Y6B00

Just trust Jesus. 

Pastor Kerry Willis 

Hymn: “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded” — 1656

The concluding words of the old Hymn: "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded" -- written down first in 1656 -- are my personal words of prayer, today: 

"O make me Thine forever, And should i fainting be. Lord, let me never, never, outlive my Love to Thee."

Here’s the hymn being sacredly sung:

https://youtu.be/JRjJ9nufa2c

Deo Volente. 

Pastor Kerry Willis