Welcome to 2025!

It’s time to leave 2024 and step into what God has for each of us this new year.

We’d love to cover you in prayer today. Please read this and imagine yourself letting go of the past year…

it’s ok.

Let it go.

If you try and carry everything, your arms and mind will be too cluttered to embrace what God has for you next.

Open your arms.

Let’s pray…

“Dear Lord,

I lay down my broken armor, my rusty tools, my self-defenses, and every excuse I’ve 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 I can make right choices that will honor You.

Let me see others like You see them, as precious ones You created. Renew the gifts and abilities You’ve so generously given me so I can bless others as You’ve blessed me.

I realize my desire for perfection is misplaced. My relationship with You doesn’t depend on my performance, but upon Your presence in my life. I will make mistakes. But I don’t have to be perfect! You’ve already made me acceptable in Your sight because of Your death and resurrection. You covered my past, present, and future. You have given me everything I could possibly need for the coming year. In You, I am complete, Lord.

Renew me, restore me, and guide me for your kingdom work. Even though my future may be unknown or the path may be dimly lit, I reach out for Your mighty hand, for it is Your companionship I seek more than anything this new year.

Amen!”

Better Together,

Paula