A Prayer to Renew Your Belief in God This New Yr
By Heidi Vegh
Bible Studying:
“And we all know that in all issues God works for the great of those that love him, who’ve been known as in accordance with his function.” – Romans 8:28
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It’s all the time a refreshing feeling as we step into a brand new 12 months. A clear slate, nothing tainting the hope that we really feel. We could make resolutions or decide to newer and higher habits. We are likely to overlook our shortcomings or failures from previous years with a renewed sense of optimism for the brand new, brilliant 12 months. Nonetheless, if we’re coming off of a tough 12 months, then it could be laborious to really feel a way of refreshment or hope. Our present issues didn’t disappear as we sang “Comfortable New Yr.” They adopted us proper previous midnight.
In case you are experiencing hardship this new 12 months, let’s make one new dedication, decision, or behavior. Allow us to decide to trusting God with every part. That is a lot simpler stated than carried out, after all, however what higher time and place to recommit our lives to Jesus and goal to belief Him, it doesn’t matter what comes our approach? We’ve a really actual enemy that comes solely to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10). He desires to see us endure; he desires us overwhelmed, annoyed, and believing lies that we will’t overcome our difficulties. However the enemy is the prince of darkness and can do something to maintain you from dwelling for the Lord, sharing His fact, and dwelling a lifetime of victory in Jesus.
Maybe, this new 12 months together with making a decision to belief God extra, we have a look at our lives and ask God to point out us what lies we’re believing about ourselves, others, or the world. What lies are rattling round in your mind which have relaxed into such a everlasting place that they’ve grow to be a part of who you’re?
Let’s bear in mind Philippians 4:8, “Lastly, brothers and sisters, no matter is true, no matter is noble, no matter is true, no matter is pure, no matter is gorgeous, no matter is admirable—if something is superb or praiseworthy—take into consideration such issues.”
Recognizing that we’ve an actual enemy is the 1st step. Fascinated by what we take into consideration is the subsequent step. We’re what we expect, and if our minds are cluttered with negativity, then our lives will mirror that. If we consider the issues of God and reject lies, we will look out previous our darkish circumstances with belief and hope. As soon as the enemy is aware of you’re on to him, will probably be tougher for him to deliver you down. Keep in mind that Jesus has the victory, not us. Keep in mind that Jesus has the facility, not us. We are able to stroll with Jesus in victory over the powers of sin and darkness and be taught to stroll within the gentle. We are able to be taught to belief Jesus it doesn’t matter what comes our approach.
Let’s Pray:
Lord, I really feel defeated as the brand new 12 months has come. I need to be joyful, hopeful, and excited for what’s to return, however the circumstances of my life make it so laborious. The lies I imagine about myself are all-consuming, and I can’t appear to interrupt free. I need to belief you, Jesus. I need to give up my fear, my disgrace, my guilt, and my despair. It’s heavy, and I don’t need to carry it any longer. I need to reside a lifetime of victory however every single day I’m battling my ideas and circumstances and struggling to belief that any good can come from this.
Lord, I need to renew my belief in you on this new 12 months. Please assist me to acknowledge the lies that inform me I’m not adequate or that I’m alone. Give me the energy and endurance to look previous my circumstances and to see you standing with me, trusting that you just work all issues for good for individuals who love you. (Romans 8:28). Lord, deliver me scriptures of fact out of your Phrase that I can recite to fight lies and communicate fact into my coronary heart. Convey folks into my life that I can open up to, and that may encourage me to belief you, even when it doesn’t make sense. Convey to remembrance occasions in my life that you’ve got shone into darkish issues and introduced gentle and redemption. I need to grasp on to your guarantees that you’re with me and can by no means go away me. I need to belief which you could work all issues collectively to your glory, even when it appears to be like so darkish. It’s religion past my potential to belief you in all issues, and I would like your assist, Lord.
I need to stroll with religion like Moses, Abraham, and Isaac. I need to have the ability to have a look at a tough state of affairs and be capable of see previous it with supernatural hope. I don’t need to be weighed down on this world anymore. Remind me to consider good issues and produce to gentle the darkness that’s hidden in my soul. Thanks, Jesus, to your fact, your gentle, and your love. Thanks that I don’t must stroll this world alone and that tough issues don’t have to deliver me down. Thanks, Jesus, to your saving grace and my potential to battle the enemy with the facility that rose you from the useless. Thanks for the gospel. I pray that as this new 12 months unfolds, I can look again and see your hand in all of it and see that you just pulled me out of a slimy pit and put me on stable floor.
In your treasured title, Jesus, I pray, amen.
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Heidi Vegh is a author, speaker, and ministry chief dwelling in Western Washington. She is a remarried mom of 4, navigating the blended household life after the lack of her first husband to most cancers in 2013. She longs to make use of her writing as a technique to encourage others who’ve skilled loss and information them on the street to therapeutic. She contributes to her weblog discovered at www.mrsheidivegh.com , sharing tales and devotionals of religion stemming from her loss and therapeutic, mothering, and her blended and sophisticated household. She graduated from Southern New Hampshire College with a level in Inventive Writing and English and is engaged on her first e-book. Heidi is the Ladies’s Ministry Director at her native church and has a deep coronary heart for sharing Jesus with ladies and inspiring them of their religion stroll. When she is just not writing, she likes to journey, learn, craft, and experiment within the kitchen. Go to her Fb and Instagram (@mrsheidivegh) to be taught extra.
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