A Prayer For Living In Newness Of Life

Father, I want to spend the rest of my earthly life getting to know Christ and the power of His resurrection. Help me to be willing to participate in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, so that I might also participate in the power of His resurrection. In so doing, I bar the old man from entering the door to my redeemed heart, reserving it solely for Jesus Christ, my Savior and Lord to dwell, whose redemptive work has given me a righteousness not of my own which comes from the law, but that which is found through faith in Christ. This results not just in a change of behavior but a change within my spirit that lives beyond this life throughout eternity, and there I will forever praise and worship You. Amen.