Prayers for 2017

As some of you know from having been reading my posts for awhile, instead of making New Year's Resolutions, I make a New Year's Prayer List. Some--many--of these I have been praying for a long time and will continue to do so. (He never says, "What, you're talking about that again.) So, here's my list for the New Year:

Thank You for Your so great salvation given so freely. Such grace and mercy!
Thank You for each day that You enable me to serve You.
Thank You for The Acres--a gift late in life perfect for the years I took care of Mom, and perfect for the nature that You instilled in me. It's a wonderful gift that You have given me for each day.
Thank You for the gift of being enabled to teach young people--of all ages--"the wonders of Your grace."
Thank You for a sure hope--eternal life in Your presence, an incorruptible body, freedom from sin, reunion with those I loved here on earth who are already with You, Home.

Please reveal Yourself to those I love in "the many forms of love You bear" as the Triune God of every moment for all of time and eternity. May they find no place to hide from Your love in all its forms.
Please help every student in my classes to know that they are safe spiritually, academically, emotionally, physically--may they daily sense Your presence in my room. Help me to be "Christ in the room."
Please help me to be sensitive to the sin the Spirit points out in my life and to respond with daily prayers of confession.
Please help me to remember to pray by name for each of the students in my classes each and every week.
Please give my Gardening Angels full approval to make this year at The Acres the most beautiful yet. (Forgive my selfishness.)
Please allow me to impress on my students that whatever You call them to do that it is a sacred calling.
Please be The God of All Comfort to the broken and hurting. As You will, use me.
Please give me a heart that in all circumstances responds first of all with thanksgiving. May a heart of gratitude fill my spirit. Daily.
Please give Your church a heart for both the spiritual and physical needs of its members and of the world You loved enough to die for. May The Gospel flourish, discipleship be the center of all we do, and
give us a heart for the poor, the widow, and the orphan.
Please make Yourself known to those You have chosen to lead this country. May they find You as their Savior and may they then act on Your behalf as the servants and ministers that all leaders are commanded to be. And remind me to pray for them every day.
Please help me to see the difference between what I think I need and what I really need--those things which You have promised to provide. In "plenty" or in "poverty" may I learn to be content--and thus know the truth that the richest people in the world know--"Godliness with contentment is great gain." Great gain.
May I share Your truths and not my own.

Thank You for being the God who welcomes me into Your throne room with my requests, sweetens Your presence with my prayers, empowers the Spirit to intercede on my behalf, and always responds as the Faithful Father