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A Prayer for New Year’s Eve 2015

     Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10 (NLT)

     For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Eph. 2:8-10 (NIV)

Dear heavenly Father, on this last day of 2015, my heart is filled with many thoughts and multiple emotions. What a year it’s been—personally and globally. But I want to make one thing very clear. The only resolution that I’m going to make tonight, as we begin the new year, is to abandon myself as fully as I can to Jesus, whom you’ve declared to be our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption (1 Cor. 1:30).

Jesus is my only boast and riches, confidence and joy, sanity and peace. Some trust in horses and chariots, and some rely on resolutions and rededications; but my hope is built on nothing less, more, or other than Jesus, and his finished work on our behalf. And I am confident that the good work of salvation you began in us, you will complete for us. For so great and grace-full a salvation, I praise, bless, and adore you, Father.

Father, during the past year, you were always faithful and loving, even when we questioned your ways and, at times, felt distant from your heart. You are always at work in all things, for your glory and for our good, even when we worried and whined. Thank you. As we begin 2016, help us discern the good works you’ve planned and prepared for us, for the New Year (Eph. 2:10).

Help us discern between the good and the best, the essential and the non-essential. What relationships would you have us invest more in more fully? What things and people must we simply release to you? In all things, make Jesus bigger and more beautiful in our gaze. Oh, that 2016 would be the year you would send him back… so very Amen I pray, in Jesus’ tender and triumphant name.

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