A Scripture and a Prayer: “A New Cleansing Needed”

“Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit new heart within you.” (Ezekiel 36:25-26b)

Prayer:

Lord, as we approach this New Year, may we first seek Your holy presence and a new beginning through Your cleansing touch. Cleanse us from the filthiness of this world, and place within us a new and renewed heart for You, and give us a greater measure of the Holy Spirit as You did with the first church as You continued to fill them anew, as they received a greater measure of Your power and grace to speak Your word with boldness. And this I ask in Jesus’s name. AMEN