20 New Year Prayers: The Best Prayers for a New Year

Do not consult your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.
Don’t think about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.
Don’t worry about what you’ve tried and not, but about what’s still possible to do.
Now is the time to put aside past and present failures and failures and look with confidence at the new day called tomorrow.

– Pope John XXIII

Oh my god,
Give me the courage to start over: ignore the difficulties, overcome the obstacles, and be open to the moment as best you can. Help me be patient enough to know that it takes time to start over and smart enough to ask for help from friends and family when I need it. As I look to the future, I can reflect on the past and remember the lessons it has given me. And God, I always seek your strength and guidance.

– Coffered ceilings of the abbey

Oh my god,
Do I ask you to grant this application today?
I can know who I am and what I am, every moment of every day.
I can be a catalyst for light and love, and inspire those I have eyes with.
May I have the strength to stand up to the conflict and the courage to say my voice, even when I am afraid.
May I have the humility to follow my heart and the passion to live the desires of my soul.
I can try to know the higher truth and rule out the gravitational pull of my lower self.
Can I hug and love the whole of myself? My darkness and my light.
Can I be brave enough to listen to my heart? Let him soften so that he can gracefully choose faith over fear.
Today is my day to deliver anything that is between the sacredness of my humanity and my divinity.
May he be wet in my Holiness and swallowed by your love.
Let everything else fall apart.
And so it is.

– Debbie Ford

God of Love,
You are with us in every transition and change.
As we enter this new era with excitement and even some anxiety, we remember your deep compassion, presence, and abundant love.
Thank you for the gifts, talents, and skills you have blessed us with.
We thank you for the experiences that have brought us to this moment.
We appreciate the work of other people that gives breadth and depth to our own work.
Be with us as we move forward, rejoicing with you and supporting one another.
We ask for it in your Holy Name.

– Joseph P. Shadle

At the dawn of the new year, we give thanks for everything we love: our health, our family, and our friends.

We release our resentments, our anger, and our pains, because they are nothing but binding chains. We live every day in the most loving way, the conscious way of God. We serve all those who need it, regardless of race, color or creed.

We keep God of our understanding in our heart and sing God’s name every day. We will guide the world from darkness to light, from falsehood to truth and from error to right.

Let us remember that we are all one, embracing it all, without discriminating against any of them.

May your year be full of peace, prosperity and love. May the blessings of God give you and grant you a bright, healthy and peaceful new year.

– Rev. Marcy Sheremetta

God of all times, help us to enter the New Year quietly, thinking about who we are for ourselves and for others, keeping in mind that our steps impact and that our words have power.

Let us walk gently.

That we speak only after we have heard well.

Creator of all life, help us to reverently enter the New Year, aware that you have endowed with beauty and purpose all creatures and plants, every person and habitat.

That we consider the world with tenderness.

That we honor more than we destroy.

Lowest of all souls, help us to enter the New Year with joy, ready to laugh, dance and dream, remembering our many gifts with thanks and wishing the blessings yet to come.

May we welcome your prodigious love: in this new year, may the grace and peace of Christ bless us now and in the days to come.

– Vinita Hampton Wright; Offered by Douglas Ruschman

May the Lord make my New Year happy. . .

Not protecting me from grief and pain, but strengthening me to bear it if it comes.

Not making my path easy, but making me strong enough to tread any path.

Not taking my difficulties, but taking all the cowardice and fear of my heart while I find difficulties.

Not giving me an uninterrupted sun, but keeping my face shining even in the shade.

Not by making my life always enjoyable, but by showing me where men and their cause need me most and making me excited to be there and help. . .

God, make my year happy.

– from the magazine Guideposts

Heavenly Father,
At midnight,
When the old year dies,
And the new one arrives,
I gain strength to know
That in the next twelve months
The snow will go
The buds will explode
The heat will increase
The leaves will fly,
That all these things will happen
According to your schedule
And in your time;
That there is order in your universe,
And that I am part of it.

– Van Varner

God of firm love, trusting in you, let us dedicate our hearts to learning and our lives to walking.
Teach us the truth, so we can walk with courage.
Teach us mercy so we can walk with humility.
Teach us forgiveness, so we can walk with compassion.
Show us grace, so we can walk hard.
Teach us to marvel so we can walk with praise.
Teach us goodness, so that we can walk with those who need it.
God of firm love, learning from you, that we walk well.
Amen.

– J. Bradley Wigger

I think I am entering a glorious new year to be filled with prayers and praises.
With service to God and humanity, with an inspired creative activity.
I believe God’s presence goes with me wherever I go this year, by train or Ires or by car or boat, on foot or by air.
I believe that his love shines in my body, his wisdom guides my mind, peace fills me with balance, his strength is always at my call.
Oh, I think this is God’s new year.

– Elizabeth Searle Lamb

Eternal God, you have made us the greatest gift: the gift of life.
Next year, help us use it wisely.
May we grow in generosity, kindness and forgiveness, hope, faith and love.
Amen.

– Rabbi Evan Moffic

Father, I leave myself in your hands.
Do with me whatever you want. Whatever you do, I appreciate it.
I am ready for everyone, I accept it. Let only your will be done in me and in all your creatures.
In your hands I praise my spirit. I offer it to you with all the love that is in my heart. Because I love you, Lord, and so I want to give myself, to give myself into your hands, without reservation and with boundless confidence, because you are my Father.
Amen.

– Charles de Foucauld

Sir,
Whether I leave a year of joy or of trials and tribulations, I pause to give thanks.
Thank you for being with me every day of every year. Thank you for making everything new and for giving me the grace of new beginnings and new beginnings.
Remind me of your presence in the coming days, even when I feel pushed and rushed by employment. Be glorified in my life this year.
Amen

– Heather C King

Dear father,
Thank you for having endings and new beginnings throughout the life season.
I bless your Word that reminds us that there is a time for all purposes under heaven.
Therefore, I thank you for the things that have ended in my life and bless you for the new beginnings.
I pray, in the name of Jesus, Amen.

—Ecclesiastes 3: 1

Dear father,
You are the God of love and I thank you for being with me in every change and transition.
I trust in your Word that says, “The Lord your God is with you.”
Therefore, as I enter this new season, I will not be anxious for uncertainty, but I declare your Word that says, “I must not be anxious for anything, but in everything, through prayer and supplication, I will make my requests known to you.
Amen.

—Deuteronomy 31: 6, Philippians 4: 6

Sir,
I fight change so often.
Find out what is comfortable and what is known.
But I know you’re doing something new.
Thank you because even when everything around me changes, it’s always the same: faithful, true, trustworthy, and full of grace.
Help me know where to go and what to do.
Show me when I say goodbye to the old and how to welcome new seasons and opportunities.
Remind me of your presence and help me to be strong and brave, knowing that you are with me.
In the name of Jesus, Amen

– Heather C King

Lord, grant me peace above all, whatever circumstances I may face this year.

—Philippians 4: 6-7

Father, I present to you all my plans for the previous year: I only approve them if they fulfill your plan for me.

—Proverbs 19:21

Father, today I forget to forget the past. I don’t want anything to hold me back from the good future you have prepared for me. Choose forgiveness and ask for your spirit to help me move forward in all areas of my life.
In the name of Jesus.
Amen.

– Joel Osteen

Heavenly Father,
I am about to embark on new beginnings as I face the end of this chapter of my life.
So I ask that you lead me and that you lead me as I face new challenges.
Father, will you stay close to me so that I do not turn away from you? You are my good shepherd and I am your sheep; so help me to keep my eyes fixed on You while I trust You in all things.
Give me provisions for everything I need, in order to begin this new journey, through the direction of your Holy Spirit.
Thanks dad, amen.

—Psalm 22:11, John 10:11, Hebrews 12: 2

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