A New Year’s Prayer – Hebrews 13:20-21
We all have hopes for the new year.
The basis of the prayer
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep…
Hebrews 13:20
“May the God of peace….” He is the one who enables all good things. Who enables, best of all, our eternal redemption, and a clear conscience. He, Jesus, is the great Shepherd of His sheep. He guides and guards them.
The content of the prayer
equip you with everything good…
Hebrews 13:21a
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Everything good that we need as believers, to make us complete. “Equip” also a word for repairing. Some of those written to were tempted to go back to the old Judaism. God is the great repairer of what is broken.
The goal of the prayer
for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 13:21b
To do His will, what is pleasing to Him. Do you wonder what is His will? Then ask what is pleasing to Him.
A big prayer, that we have permission to pray, for He is a big God. It is through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Not glory to us, but to Him.
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