WEEK OF PRAYER
JANUARY 3, 2023
All Things New
NEW STRENGTH:
Isaiah 40:31, But those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
PRAY:
Ask God for patience in the waiting.
Pray for renewed strength, elevated perspective and courage to rise above present circumstances.
Pray for discernment of whether to run or walk in each given situation and believe for His promise of endurance.
NEW MERCIES:
Lamentations 3:22-24, The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness, his mercies begin afresh each morning.
PRAY:
Say a prayer of gratitude for God’s faithfulness and endless mercies.
Pray these verses as a declaration.
NEW BIRTH: Born into a New Family:
1 Peter 1:3-5, Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish , spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
2 Corinthians 5:17-21, Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
PRAY:
Give thanks to God for redemption and a new life that is hidden in Christ. (Colossians 3:3)
Pray for greater understanding of your new birth into the family of God and for an uprooting of anything not planted by Him.
Ask God for Spiritual eyes and ears to see and hear beyond the physical and the audible.
Pray for selfless, emboldened faith to speak truth in love and to pursue reconciliation of people to God.