New Year Prayer
Sharable notes for the January 1, 2023 message. You can post these notes on your social platform!
Scriptures used: Colossians 1:9-14; James 5:10-11
Passages referenced: Colossians 1; Ephesians 1:18-19; John 14-16; 1 John 1:9
Do you have an internal personal faith in Jesus Christ. Is it your faith?
Our hope is not a hope for, it’s a hope in a trusted source coming from an already obtained outcome. It’s better to have an eternal hope than an eternal wish.
When you have a faith internally and a hope eternally it produces through you a love externally.
“We are not sent into the world to live unto ourselves, but we are members of one body, and each member is expected to contribute to the health and the comfort of the whole… In temporal things we may not be able to enrich the church for lack of substance; but if we fail to bless the church by our prayers it will be for lack of grace.” Charles Spurgeon
God wants you to grow in what you receive and grow in what you produce.
Good news leads us to good change that creates a good walk that encourages good works to love and serve others, to give good advice in the form of words of wisdom and knowledge to people, all proclaiming the good news that saves people, which produces good fruit.
God’s power will strengthen us to walk in the ever increasing knowledge of God’s will with understanding not to just to know it but to apply it, and we can do it with endurance and patience.
"The Christian prayer is: ‘Make me, O Lord, victorious over every circumstance; make me patient with every person; and withal give me the joy which no circumstance and no man will ever take from me.’” William Barclay
Christ is not merely the founder of a major religion. He is the "image of the invisible God" by whom all things were created
Reflect or meet with someone to discuss:
Have you set any goals for yourself for the new year?
What about your prayer for the new year? What prayers are on your heart for this year?
How can you incorporate Paul's prayer from Colossians 1:9-14 into your prayers for this year?
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