Talk of the New Year has already grown old and we are only sixteen days into the new year. A prayer that John Wesley adapted and used in Watch Night services (all night prayer meetings on Dec. 31/Jan. 1) is a helpful tool in reassessing our values at the beginning of a new year.
Join me in this prayer and together let us see what God can and will do in and through us in 2010.
A Covenant Prayer in the Wesleyan Tradition
I am no longer my own, but yours.
Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will.
Put me to doing, put me to suffering.
Let me be employed by you or laid aside for you,
exalted for you or brought low by you.
Let me be full, let me be empty.
Let me have all things, let me have nothing.
I freely and heartily yield all things
to your pleasure and disposal.
And now, O glorious and blessed God,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
you are mine and, and I am yours. So be it.
And the covenant which I have made on earth,
let it be ratified in heaven. Amen.
Flourishing Life 
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