Prayer for the New Year 2023:
Dear Lord,
Thank you for this past year with its uncertain waters, bright hopes for future generations, flames of trials, successes provided by you and carrying us through the pain of hard losses. We are aware of how much we need you, your grace, your strength, and your power in our happiest and our toughest days.
In the years to come, help us remember to forgive others and ourselves, and know that through you we are covered with the blood of Jesus. Help us keep your words of truth planted firmly in our hearts. Keep us focused on what is right and pure leading us on your steady ground.
We ask that you provide for our needs and ask for your grace and favor. Help us be known as great givers, generous and kind to a fault. Allow us to produce the fruits of your spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control so that others will see your goodness within us.
Lord, we call on you to give us a courageous heart for the year ahead and so as not to be easily distracted by other things that would seek to call us away from a close walk with you.
All these things we pray in Jesus’ name,
Amen.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.