Text: ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭2:13‬ ‭

  [Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight. Philippians 2:13 AMPC

In retrospect, but God…

If God had not intervened to deliver us from some bad decisions,  life would have been so unbearable.

Think about how miserable you would have been if you had married  that partner who ghosted you,  or if you were not refused that employment or if you had delayed that trip!

When you look back  to how God pulled you back from the edge of the precipice, you are ready to pray the next year forward. 

Let us Pray:

Father God,  thank you for intervening in our lives to deliver us from destruction,  evil relationships, and from making decisions that would have had disastrous effects in our lives. 

We are grateful that your mercy prevailed over judgment, and you caused all things to work together for our good.

We stand against the spirits of errors, confusion, fear, as well as those evil spirits influencing information mismanagement, indecision, deception, people-pleasing, disobedience and their relatives, we command them to go at once to the feet of Jesus Christ.

We proclaim that your Word richly dwells in us by faith, we are filled and led by the Holy Spirit, and will continually walk in yieldedness, and obedience, to your plan and purpose for our lives.

We live as light and salt in this world and live as the righteous and always doing the right things at the right time. 

As we transition into a new year, Father, continue to work in us both to will and to do of your good pleasure and to continue to walk the pathways of excellence, productivity,  abundance of grace and mercies. 

We appreciate how you delivered us from evils, and kept us from making disastrous decisions or following disastrous paths this year. 

We ask that Your Prevailing Mercy extend to our families (by blood, by marriage, by adoption or by faith), and keep them from disobedience and deliver them from all evils too.

Work in us also Father, to be more discerning, to grow in grace and in knowledge, and to Excel in all areas of life this following years.

Touch our relationships, careers, academics, vocations,  ministries and our bodies and mind. Let them reflect your glory and attract praises to You, in the matchless name of Jesus Christ.

Shalom from  Hephzibah Christly, TheSpiritualWarrior, Dec 25th 2023