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