CHRISTIANNEWS.COM.- Looking back over the past year, do you see patterns that need to be amended, habits that need to be broken, and do you find yourself defending your actions and attitudes? Craving something different this year?
If you want to move on, start over, and experience a year of victory, not defeat, then perhaps this prayer will help inspire you.
“Lord Jesus, I come to you in this new year with the desire to move forward, not backward. Last year is gone, and with it all the dumb mistakes I’ve made. I look forward to putting the past behind us and moving toward the mark of knowing, loving, serving, and making Your name known in the coming year.
I don’t ask for cheap grace, because I know it cost you your life. You gave everything for me, so that I could have a fresh start, every day of every year. Thank you for Your unheeding favor and limitless mercy, and Your grace, which keeps on giving. Thank you for making me Your son.
Forgive me for ignoring Your voice at times, for pursuing my own pleasures, and for letting my priorities slip away. Your promise is like gold to me: Your offer of forgiveness, Your unwavering mercy, and Your new mercies every day.
I need you, Lord. Without you, I cannot meet the heavy demands of life or the unrelenting pressures that I will face in the coming year. I am making a new commitment today, not a New Year’s resolution, but a new desire to put you where you always belong, first place in my life.
Make the “I want”s of Scripture become my affirmations: “I will trust you; I will praise you; I will follow you.” I will replace fear with faith, knowing that you are always with me. And with you by my side, it will be a victorious New Year.
I leave behind my broken armor, my rusty tools, my self-defenses, and all the excuses I have used for not living victoriously. Purge my bad habits; free me from wrong expectations; and fill my heart, soul and mind with praiseworthy thoughts and actions.
I want to exchange my past disappointments for Your divine appointments this year. My life is yours; my relationships belong to you; everything I have is yours, Jesus. Set my feet on the right path this year and grant wisdom so that I can make right decisions that honor you.
Let me see others as you see them, as precious beings that you created. Renew the gifts and abilities you have so generously given me so that I can bless others as you have blessed me.
I realize that my desire for perfection is misplaced. My relationship with you does not depend on my performance, but on Your presence in my life. I will make mistakes. But I don’t have to be perfect! You have already made me acceptable in your eyes because of your death and resurrection.
You covered my past, present and future. It has given me everything I could possibly need for the coming year. In You I am complete, Lord. Help me accept my faults and make your mirror my own. I want to reflect you daily.
Because of your love and the price you paid for my sin, I can not only enjoy a victorious New Year, but a triumphant life. You put a new “wish” in my life and in my heart. And as the calendar turns another page in this new year, I want more than ever to live it for you. There is no battle in my life too big with you in my life. There is victory in you, Jesus!”
Written by: Rebecca Barlow-Jordan at Crosswalk.
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