Are you brave enough to pray these this year?
Ten short prayers for the new year
- Lord, place me in uncomfortable situations that will squeeze the lazy, self-centeredness out of me.
- Open doors for the gospel while giving me boldness and compassion to move through them.
- You have told me that a mind set on the flesh is death but a mind set on the Spirit is life and peace. Don’t let my mind ever forget that today.
- God, hedge my way up with thorns so that I might not follow vanity.
- Send someone my way today. Let them speak your truth to me. Give me ears to hear and receive encouragement and exhortation from them.
- Send someone my way today. Let me speak your truth to them. Give me courage and clarity to speak a word of exhortation to them.
- Lord, next time I fail pull me to the cross quicker.
- Lord, next time I succeed pull me to the cross quicker.
- God don’t let me have that which I think I want but which you know would be wrong for me.
- Give me a tender heart along with open ears. Remove my pride and stubbornness far from me.