Point of Grace Worship 1.1.23 Sermon Notes – “Consecrating 2023!”
Consecrating 2023!
Consecration – the act of “setting apart” someone or something to/for someone or something
To “set apart” is to make “holy”,
To designate for a particular purpose,
To bring under the authority and reign of Jesus.
The Eighth Day of Christmas for Jesus
Luke 2:21
On the eighth day,
when it was time to circumcise the child,
he was named Jesus,
the name the angel had given him before he was conceived.
Galatians 4:4-7
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
Romans 12:1-2
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you:
Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering.
Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out.
Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
Consecration Prayer for 2023
My dear Lord Jesus Christ, I come to You today to be restored in You and renewed in You. I now consecrate this year of life to You and You alone! You are my Lord in 2023!
I consecrate every aspect of my life and all of my living this year totally and completely to You. I yield my spirit, soul, body, my heart, mind and will to the life and leading of Your Holy Spirit. Come Holy Spirit, fill me afresh every day this new year. I want to follow Your lead.
Jesus I receive all the work and triumph of your life, death, resurrection, ascension and current reign over my life. I am not my own. I have been bought with a price. Thank you for giving me my salvation identity.
I pray "Hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come and Your will be done" over my life, over my family and over my church in 2023.
Jesus, I consecrate all of me to you and invite You to reign over every dimension of my life every day of this new year.
I consecrate to you:
• my time and abilities
• my possessions, money, and influence
• my personality, sexuality and imagination
• my work, plans and ambitions,
• my friends, family and church
• my hopes and dreams
• my loves, losses and worries
• and my brokenness, imperfections, disappointments
and failures
My all day, every-day life is set apart and consecrated to You Jesus – flood my life with Your creative and renewing presence. Thank you for setting me apart as Yours.
I now bring the authority, rule and dominion of the Lord Jesus Christ over all aspects of my life; and over all my arenas of influence this New Year.
I come in Jesus name against Satan and His kingdom binding and banishing him and all forces of evil away from my life, my family and my church this year in the powerful and victorious name of Jesus! Amen