Blessed living Lord Jesus, | reaffirm my commitment to be Your disciple today. ! take
up my cross and follow You by serving others.
Fill me with Your Spirit. Use my mind to think your thoughts, my emotions to express
Your love, and my will to discern and do Your will for me. | surrender the challenges,
Relationships, and responsibilities of the day ahead.
Grant me your power. 1 take seriously Your promise that Your disciples are to expect
Supernatural power for the work You give them to do. Amazement and wonder
grip me as | reflect on Your promise that “He who believes in me the works that | do
he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because | go to My Father”
John 14:12.
In these days, as | prepare for a New Year, my commitment is to seek to love as You
Love, forgive as You forgive, inspire others as You inspire me, give hope as You give
me hope. Help me to confront the physical, emotional, and spiritual illness and suffering
around me with prayers for healing. Give me a renewed sense that nothing is impossible
for You. Replace my insecure grimness with an inexhaustible graciousness. Help me to
envision a new year totally surrendered to You and triumphantly supplied with Your
strength and courage.