{"id":10064,"date":"2019-12-31T20:31:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T02:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=10064"},"modified":"2019-12-31T21:05:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T03:05:30","slug":"a-prayer-for-a-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=10064","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for a New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YEAR, O LORD,<br \/>Length of days does not profit me except the days are passed<br \/>in thy presence, in thy service, to thy glory.<br \/>Give me a grace that precedes, follows, guides, sustains,<br \/>sanctifies, aids every hour,<br \/>that I may not be one moment apart from thee,<br \/>but may rely on thy Spirit<br \/>to supply every thought,<br \/>speak in every word,<br \/>direct every step,<br \/>prosper every work,<br \/>build up every mote of faith,<br \/>and give me a desire<br \/>to show forth thy praise,<br \/>testify thy love,<br \/>advance thy kingdom.<br \/>I launch my bark on the unknown waters of this year,<br \/>with thee, O Father, as my harbor,<br \/>thee, O Son, at my helm,<br \/>thee, O Holy Spirit, filling my sails.<br \/>Guide me to heaven with my loins girt,<br \/>my lamp burning,<br \/>my ear open to thy calls,<br \/>my heart full of love,<br \/>my soul free.<br \/>Give me thy grace to sanctify me,<br \/>thy comforts to cheer,<br \/>thy wisdom to teach,<br \/>thy right hand to guide,<br \/>thy counsel to instruct,<br \/>thy law to judge,<br \/>thy presence to stabilize.<br \/>May thy fear be my awe,<br \/>thy triumphs my joy. <\/p>\n<p>&mdash;Arthur Bennett, editor. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/products\/valley-of-vision-arthur-bennett-9780851512280?utm_source=ptautges&amp;utm_medium=blogpartners\"><em>The Valley of Vision<\/em>: <em>A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions<\/em><\/a>. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Banner of Truth Trust, 1999 (first published in 1975), p. 112. ISBN 0-85151-228-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpf_wrapper\"><a class=\"print_link\" href=\"https:\/\/counselingoneanother.com\/2019\/12\/31\/a-prayer-for-a-new-year\/print\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Print this entry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- .wpf_wrapper --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YEAR, O LORD,Length of days does not profit me except the days are passedin thy presence, in thy service, to thy glory.Give me a grace that precedes, follows, guides, sustains,sanctifies, aids every hour,that I may not be one moment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-10064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-counseling-one-another-paul-tautges","tag-prayer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10067,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions\/10067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}