Greetings to each of you on this New Year's Eve.
As the Presiding Bishop of GMCI & GAM, I want to share a special prayer for you.
You might wonder why I said New Year's Blessing instead of Happy New Year. Well, certainly I wish you all the happiness available for the new year but you may not be able to stay happy every day of the year but you can stay blessed. The joy of the Lord is our strength and it does not depend on happiness.
As you read the prayer contained in this email, I believe it can be yours if you accept it.
As we stand on the threshold of a new year, it should not be another time of words that rhyme with 2010 or some other type of cliché that wears itself out within 30 days and accomplishes much of nothing. I pray that this new year will be a time of entering into a more dynamic relationship with God.... A time of deliverance and healing: spiritually, physically and financially. I pray it will truly be a year of signs and wonders.
As this email goes out to our membership around the world, I pray that it will accomplish its intended purpose.
Heavenly Father.... I come into agreement with You right now for Your will to be done in the lives and ministries of every minister, outreach ministry and church affiliated with this ministry. Let this truly be a time when we all become more sensitive to the leading of Your Holy Spirit. Let it be a time of healing, deliverance, signs, wonders and miracles.
Lift those that are down, encourage those that are despondent. Heal those that are afflicted and deliver those that are bound. Let this be a year of empowerment to the degree we can all fully walk in the potential you have already created and fulfill our destiny here on earth.
Dear God, let all that would read this prayer accept these words as active in their lives. I pray that the Holy Ghost will fill us and thrill us. Let it change us and rearrange us. May we redeem the time because the days are evil. Let us not just talk church.... Help us to be the Church as You intended. Let us do more than we say... let us accomplish more than we expect. May we all truly be more like You.
As the Presiding Bishop over this ministry and under Your direction, let this prayer accomplish the intended purpose. May this truly be a banner year in every area and aspect of our lives and ministries.
In Jesus Name, Amen
