Happy New Year 2024

 It is only by trusting in the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, that we can be reborn as a new-creation in Him, with a clean heart. It is only by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and our identification with HIM that we can be declared righteous by God and have the righteousness of Christ imputed to us.
 If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins, purify our hearts, renew a steadfast spirit within, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  Our insatiable cry should be, purify my heart O Lord. Cleanse me from my sins. Create in me a clean heart. Restore to me the joy of my salvation and renew a godly spirit within me.
 May we choose the good and avoid the evil so that our new, born-again-life in Christ (our new-nature in Him) may be increasingly conformed into the image and likeness of the Lord Jesus until it is no longer I that live (my old sin-nature, but Christ (the new-life I have in Him) that lives in me.
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Our United Prayer:
Thank You, Father, You give us a new nature, a new, born-again life, received through faith in Christ.  Thank You for the inner dwelling ministry of the Holy Spirit, and we pray that You would point out all the areas in our lives that grieve You or quench Your ongoing work within us. Create in us a clean heart in 2024 we pray, and renew a steadfast spirit within us, and may Christ be seen in us as we submit to Your Spirit leading us in this New Year. In Christ's name we pray, AMEN.