A New Year's Prayer (for every day)

Help me, Lord, to put off my old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires.
Make me new in the attitude of my mind, and help me put on the new self,
created to be like You, Lord God, in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4:22-24)

Renew me in knowledge in the image of my Creator. (Colossians 3:10)

I pray that I would offer my body as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God,
as a spiritual act of worship. I pray that I would not be squeezed into the world's mold,
but that I will be transformed by the renewing of my mind, so that I can test and approve
what God's good, pleasing and perfect will is. (Romans 12:1-2)

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father,
may give me the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that I may know Him better.
I pray that the eyes of my heart may be enlightened in order that we may know
the hope to which He has called us, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
and His incomparably great power for us who believe. (Ephesians 1:17-19)

I pray that God will fill me with the knowledge of His will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding, in order that I may live a life worthy of the Lord and please Him in every way:
bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with
all power according to His glorious might so that I may have great endurance and patience,
and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified me to share in the inheritance of
the saints in the kingdom of light. For He rescued me from the dominion of darkness and
brought me into the kingdom of the Son He loves, in whom I have redemption. (Colossians 1:9-12)

I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen me with power through His Spirit in
my inner being, so that Christ may dwell in my heart through faith. I pray that I would be rooted
and established in love, and may have the power together with all the saints to grasp how
wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge -
that we may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of Christ. (Ephesians 3:16-19)

I pray that my love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,so that
I may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ,
filled with the fruit of the righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ -
to the glory and praise of God. (Philippians 1:9-11)

Now Him who is able to do immeasurable more than all I ask or even imagine,
according to His power that is at work within me, to Him be glory in the church
and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. (Ephesians 3:20-21)

Now go back and pray it again, changing the pronoun from I/me to we/us, or inserting the name
of your spouse, children, parents, pastors, friends, ...

Prepared to accompany a sermon on January 1, 2012.