Happy New Year friends!

We wanted to begin the year by sharing a prayer from a Puritan prayer book (it’s one Courtney uses every morning!). We love how the Puritans prayed with a deep sense of God’s sovereignty and a posture of dependence on him. Consider taking a few moments to slow down and meditate on the truths captured in the prayer below:

Lord, you are as worthy to be the Omega as you are the Alpha. The last as you are the first. The end as you are the beginning of all things. The ocean into which all being will flow, as the fountain from which it sprang.

I cannot live except by you. You are God alone. You are the fullness of life and being, the only root and spring of life, the everlasting I AM, the Being of beings…

Because I love you, I want to be near you. I want to be yours. I want to lead my life with you, to dwell in your presence. I love you, O Lord, my strength, because your own perfections highly deserve it—and because you have heard my voice. You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling..

Lord, here I am, wholly yours. I come to surrender myself, my whole life and being, to be entirely and always at your disposal, and for your use. Accept a devoted, self-resigning soul…

And I yield myself to you, because I love you. I make an offer of myself to be your servant—your servant, O Lord. You have loosed my bonds, and now I desire to bind myself in new ones to you, that are never to be loosed. Amen.

—Adapted from “I Want To Be Yours” by John Howe

Thankful for God’s faithfulness that carries us forward this year,

Much love,

Melissa and Courtney