A Prayer of Gratitude for 2024
By Emma Danzey
Bible Studying:
“Give because of the LORD, for he’s good; his love endures eternally.” – Psalm 118:29
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What have you ever encountered within the yr 2024? Has it been an unbelievable time of blessings, celebrations, and milestones? Has it been stuffed with therapeutic, grief, and unknowns? Has it’s a bit little bit of every little thing? How are you feeling as this yr wraps up? Many occasions I’m not able to see a yr go by and embrace the following one. Nevertheless, there’s a magnificence ultimately of a chapter and the start of a brand new one. However one of the vital necessary issues that we are able to do is to have gratitude and acknowledge what the Lord has carried out in a yr earlier than saying goodbye to it.
Whether or not that is a straightforward thanks or a tough one, God see you and is aware of each element of your story. Some issues might have occurred to us that had been sinful and never in God’s good will. We shouldn’t have to thank Him for issues similar to abuse or betrayal. However He does educate us in Romans 8:28 that He’s working all issues collectively for our good and His glory, so we are able to thank Him that nothing is wasted for many who observe Him and thank Him for His steadfast faithfulness and love even within the hardships and the harm that we’ve got confronted.
In case you are popping out of the trial of a lifetime and one thing horrible has been carried out to you this yr, know that you just cherished and seen. Keep in mind that you shouldn’t have to be pleased about sin dedicated towards to you, however you could be grateful in who your God has all the time been and the way He’ll carry you thru this and offer you power to face every day, and even use your ache to assist others.
Take a second earlier than we pray, even hit pause in case you are listening, and cease and write down some particular issues that you’re grateful for this yr. I like to write down down highlights from every month after which look over all the yr of God’s faithfulness. Even when it appears small, your gratitude is efficacious and can strengthen your pleasure in Christ.
Let’s Pray:
Pricey Lord,
Thank You for the yr 2024. We come earlier than you with hearts stuffed with thanksgiving over the ways in which You will have labored with new lives, new alternatives, household time, recollections made, new believers in You, church progress, outreach, neighborhood constructing, friendships deepening, fears overcome, well being, classes discovered, and the beautiful adjustments of the seasons.
Father we additionally thank You for being with us within the hardships, losses, grief, ache, anxieties, melancholy, doubts, struggles, genuine prayers, sinful choices, illness, and extra. Thank You that You by no means waste a scenario or a circumstance for many who love You. We pray that even when we aren’t grateful for what has occurred to us, that we’re grateful for Who’s getting us by. Thank You for being the God of all consolation who comforts us in order that we are able to consolation others. Thanks for turning magnificence from the ashes.
We’re grateful for the non secular progress that we’ve got encountered by Your Phrase, in prayer, and with the church neighborhood. We’re grateful for the ways in which Your Spirit has strengthened us, taught us extra of who You’re, and revealed nice knowledge in difficult choices. Thank You for strolling with us every day and serving to us to have victories over the enemy. We reward You for the numerous occasions that we had been ready to decide on the Spirit over the flesh by Your energy this yr. Forgive us for the occasions once we sinned in 2024, however thank You for Your grace upon grace. Your mercies have been new each morning, nice is Your faithfulness.
We rejoice the ending of this yr and ask that You’ll assist totally different recollections come to our thoughts of the distinctive methods through which You labored in 2024. We thank You for being our Savior and for calling us Your kids. We ask that identical to You will have been devoted this previous yr, that you’ll reveal Your faithfulness once more in 2025. In Jesus’ title, Amen.
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