2019
The new year opens quickly,
A gift, dear Lord, from You.
It runs its course so swiftly,
Yet there is much to do.
Five things I ask believing
They are Your will for me,
And that I’ll be receiving
Each by Your kind decree.
First, give me love increasing
For Jesus Christ that I
May always be decreasing
And He be lifted high.
Then give me deeper hunger
To know and seek Your Word,
That I may turn no longer
From following my Lord.
I ask that You would show me
The working of Your hand
In everything around me –
Both little things and grand.
Give me a constant focus
On magnifying Christ
So He’ll seem great and glorious –
My Maker sacrificed.
Teach me to sing Your praises
With every breath, I pray,
That every heart beat raises
A grateful song each day.
I ask these things desiring
To live this year for You,
That faith and love conspiring
May guide the things I do.
Christina Joy Hommes
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