Praying with Hope for the New Year
Are goodness and blessings beyond our imagining about to burst over the horizon?
New Year’s is a chance to reflect on the year as it draws to a close and celebrate the opportunities and fresh starts that await in the year ahead.
Are goodness and blessings beyond our imagining about to burst over the horizon?
January is a powerful time to remember that the year ahead will hold long sunny days, new movies and TV shows and summer’s first tomato!
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!—2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)
Let the instability of the year that was strengthen your dedication to what comes next.
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.—Isaiah 43:18 (NIV)
After an upsetting canine altercation on Christmas Eve, realizing that God’s got this.
We know our hearts can bend, because they already have.
There may be no better way to fulfill the promise of a new year than with a fresh approach to prayer.
Even after the year we’ve had, there are still reasons to express joy.
We are beginning to see our way out of a time of sickness and death.
Rick Hamlin reminds us that the attitude with which we approach the new year can make all the difference.
Taking care of yourself starts with noticing the stressors that are challenging you most.