2025 New Year's Prayer

For Christians, moving from 2024 into 2025 is not only a concept of time transition, but also a concept of life renewal.

We believe that as we enter the new year, the Holy Spirit through the Word of God will renew our faith and life at every level. Our relationship with God, our Bible reading, prayer and ministry life, our gospel mission and social responsibility will all be renewed in the Holy Spirit.

As we enter the year 2025, our prayer and hope before God is that from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, may God, with His gracious hand, strengthen us, support us, guide us, and help us, so that we may experience deeper repentance and enter into truer revival, so that our relationship with the Lord will be closer and sweeter; so that our faith foundation will be more profound and solid, and our spiritual life will be more vibrant and powerful.

We pray:

Father of mercies, Lord of heaven and earth, we praise you, worship you, and thank you! You are one, powerful, eternal, true and living; you are faithful, just and holy, full of grace, mercy and love; you are true, good and beautiful; you are all-knowing, all-seeing, and all-present; you have majesty, honor, power and glory; you are honorable and fearful, and will never change!

Father, Your holy and good Spirit, lead us into all Your good attributes, to meditate on You and to praise You. We stand at the point of convergence between the times 2024 and 2025, and sing a new song to our God with unceasing love and honor: I will sing a new song unto thee, O God, and sing praises unto thee with a ten-stringed psalter. For thou hast done marvelous things; thy right hand and thy holy arm worketh salvation. Sing unto the Lord, all the earth, bless thy name, and proclaim thy salvation every day. Thy glory shall be told among the nations, and thy wonders among the peoples. For great is the power of our God, and greatly to be praised; and thou art above all gods, and to be feared!

Dear Lord, we believe that the new song you command your children to sing to you carries the power to renew our lives forever! How you have called us to live in the rhythm of a new song in the past 2024, and how you will call us to witness you, glorify you, and live for you in the coming 2025 as we walk in the rhythm of a new song, and in the path of life that pleases you. Thank you, Lord, for making us walk through the hardships and joys of 2024 with a new song, and we will also walk through the unknown but certain 2025 with a new song, because the Lord has made a new and living way for us on the cross, and we will surely receive new grace and strength when we follow the Lord with the cross on our backs, and we will take to the air like eagles on the wing, and will not be tired of running, and will not get tired when we walk.

Lord, in this new year, let your church have true repentance and revival in the rhythm of the new song, so that the foundation of the church will be built on the rock of biblical truth. May your church, O Lord, no longer be a club that fluctuates with the world's trend, but a good fellowship of disciples who follow Christ with their crosses. Lord, we are your children purchased with your precious blood, so that in the rhythm of a new song we may put off the old man, change our minds, and put on the new man, who is created in the image of God, in the righteousness and holiness of the truth. Let us walk into the social crowd with the appearance of the new man, clothed with the glory of the gospel, and carrying the fragrant breath of Christ, and be empowered by the Holy Spirit to be your witnesses from near to far, and through the gospel to take back the hearts of men to Christ.

Dear Lord, at this moment when we are bidding farewell to 2024 and entering into 2025, we want to say to the Lord, “Behold, every morning is new, and Thy honesty is exceedingly great. And we will say in our hearts, Thou art our portion, O Lord; therefore we will look unto Thee, and wait in silence for Thy salvation ...... Glory be to the triune God! In the victorious name of Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior we pray, Amen!

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