Grace To Face The New Year

Almighty God, as we come to you in prayer today, open to us the gates of that spiritual realm in which you dwell that we might feel your closeness and your love.  Grant that as we invite you into our hearts in prayer, we might feel your greatness over against our incompleteness; your rest all about us when we are overcome with restlessness.  Deliver us from bondage to sin and fear, and enable us, by your grace, to face life in this new year with the calm assurance that you walk beside us every step of the way!  We pray in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord.  Amen.