A Prayer of Gratitude for 2024 – Your Day by day Prayer – December 31

A Prayer of Gratitude for 2024
By Emma Danzey
Bible Studying:
“Give due to the LORD, for he’s good; his love endures eternally.” – Psalm 118:29
Hear or Learn Under:
What have you ever encountered within the 12 months 2024? Has it been an unimaginable time of blessings, celebrations, and milestones? Has it been stuffed with therapeutic, grief, and unknowns? Has or not it’s a bit of little bit of the whole lot? How are you feeling as this 12 months wraps up? Many occasions I’m not able to see a 12 months go by and embrace the following one. Nonetheless, there’s a magnificence in the long run of a chapter and the start of a brand new one. However some of the vital issues that we are able to do is to have gratitude and acknowledge what the Lord has finished in a 12 months 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 should not have to thank Him for issues reminiscent of 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 individuals who comply with Him and thank Him for His steadfast faithfulness and love even within the hardships and the damage that we have now confronted.
If you’re popping out of the trial of a lifetime and one thing horrible has been finished to you this 12 months, know that you just liked and seen. Keep in mind that you should not 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 12 months. I really like to write down down highlights from every month after which look over all the 12 months of God’s faithfulness. Even when it appears small, your gratitude is efficacious and can strengthen your pleasure in Christ.
Let’s Pray:
Expensive Lord,
Thank You for the 12 months 2024. We come earlier than you with hearts stuffed with thanksgiving over the ways in which You have got labored with new lives, new alternatives, household time, reminiscences made, new believers in You, church development, outreach, neighborhood constructing, friendships deepening, fears overcome, well being, classes discovered, and the attractive 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 individuals 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 means of. 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 religious development that we have now encountered by means of 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 various occasions that we had been in a position to decide on the Spirit over the flesh by Your energy this 12 months. 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 have a good time the ending of this 12 months and ask that You’d assist totally different reminiscences come to our thoughts of the distinctive methods wherein You labored in 2024. We thank You for being our Savior and for calling us Your kids. We ask that identical to You have got been devoted this previous 12 months, that you’ll reveal Your faithfulness once more in 2025. In Jesus’ identify, Amen.
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