Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church.

Saturday, Dec. 31: We ask God to help us not squander or forget the forgiveness, new life and freedom we have in Jesus Christ and that we can face without fear the changes and newness that may come with the approaching new year.

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