A New Year

Awesome God, blessed be Your glorious name! Thank You for another new day. A new day that begins a new year. May Your rule and reign be increasingly evident in and through our lives this year. Not just for a moment or an hour or a day but every day. Yet, help us to trust in You every moment of every hour of every day. Let it be our increasing desire for Your will to be done in and through our lives. Grow in us a hunger and thirst for Your righteousness. Teach us how to daily die to self so that the life of Christ would be increasingly evident in and through us. May we say, "NO!", to the flesh consistently and with conviction. May it be our desire and devotion to live in obedience to Your call on our lives. Thanks for making us salts and lights in Christ. Thanks for giving us Your Scripture and Your Spirit so that we can live as salts and lights. Help us to grow in the knowledge, understanding, trust, and conviction of who we are in Christ. For it is in Him our identity is fixed! In Him we are secure. In Him we are steadfast. In Him we are strong. In Him we are sanctified. We have these and many more blessings in Him. Thank You Lord! Thanks for Your work in us. Your work is awesome! The goal of Your work is to conform us to the image and likeness of Your Son. No other work and goal can compare to it. This is Your work and goal for Your good pleasure and our good. Thanks! So, we surrender and submit today, and pledge to surrender and submit ourselves to You each day of 2013. We pledge to cooperate with Your sanctifying, sure, and skilled work in us. We are immensely and infinitely blessed to have a God like You. Amen!