Listener prayers for the New Year

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Monday morning, December 27th, the final Monday of 2021. Good morning to you! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Next up, prayers for the New Year.

All this week we are ending each program with Scripture readings and prayers from listeners for the year ahead. Our goal is that through the hearing of God’s word and the intercession of His people, you will be encouraged and hopeful for what God has in store for 2022.

VARNER: Adrian Varner reading from Joshua 1, verses one through nine. Now it came about after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses his servant saying, Moses, my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people to the land which I'm giving to them, to the sons of Israel, every place on which the soul of your foot treads, I have given it to you, just as I spoke to Moses, from the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even as far as the great river, the river Euphrates all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the great sea, toward the setting of the sun, will be your territory. No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you. I will not fail you or forsake you. Be strong and courageous. For you shall give this people possession of the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that has written in it. For then you will make your way prospers and then you will have success. Have I not commanded you, be strong and courageous, do not tremble or be dismayed. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

LIPA: Doug Lipa praying through Psalm 121. Father, whether we find ourselves today in anguish or joy, the light or despair, we returned to you your own words in recognition that you are sovereign, and you are good. from Psalm 121 Father, we lift up or rise to the hills from where shall our help come? Our help comes from you the Lord who made heaven and earth. You will not let us be moved. You are keeper will never slumber. Behold you who keep Israel, your people, you will never slumber. You never sleep. You are our keeper. You are our shade. Nothing shall harmless by day, nor by night. You Lord, keep us from all evil. You will keep our life you will keep are going out and are coming in. From this time forth and forevermore. Amen.

JOHSON: My name is Marcia Johnson from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Heavenly Father, as I await the coming of your son this Advent season. I recall the promise made through your prophet Isaiah in Isaiah 43:19. Behold, I am doing a new thing. Now it springs forth. Do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

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