Prayers for hope and new beginnings
Hope after a hard year
For fresh starts and a future worth trusting.
Also for hard year · tough year behind me · looking forward after hardship · hope for the new year · rough year recovery · hopeful for what's next · glad this year is over · hopeful for a new year · looking ahead with hope
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
A prayer
Original writing, not a quotation of Scripture.
Lord, this past year was harder than I expected, and I am walking into what’s next a little bruised. Thank you that your mercies didn’t run out even during the worst of it, and that they are new again this morning. I don’t need the new season to erase the old one, I just need hope that you are still writing something good.
Restore what was worn down in me and help me walk forward with expectation instead of dread. In Jesus’ name, Amen.