PROPHECIES, PRAYERS,

AND DECLARATIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR

BY SHAWN BOLZ

ALSO INCLUDED:
A special bonus chapter of BREAKTHROUGH
Table of Contents
I AM THE NEW YEAR

QUOTES

SCRIPTURAL GUIDES

PROPHECIES

PRAYERS

DECLARATIONS

BONUS: BREAKTHROUGH CHAPTER

 I am the New Year
I am the new year. I am an unspoiled page in your book of time.

I am your next chance at the art of living. I am your opportunity to practice what you have learned
about life during the last twelve months.

All that you sought and didn’t find is hidden in me, waiting for you to search it, but with more
determination.

All the good that you tried for and didn’t achieve is mine to grant when you have fewer conflicting
desires.

All that you dreamed but didn’t dare to do, all that you hoped but did not will, all the faith that you
claimed but did not have—these slumber lightly, waiting to be awakened by the touch of a strong
purpose.

I am your opportunity to renew your allegiance to Him who said, “Behold, I make all things new.”

— Joesph Exell, The Biblical Illustrator 1

Quotes for your New Year

“Resolution One: I will live for God.

Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”
Jonathan Edwards

“Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every

situation you believe to be the will of God.”
Jim Elliot

“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”

Peter Marshall

“New year, I am expecting a lot out of you.”

Anonymous

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 Quotes for your New Year

“Of all persons, the Christian should be best prepared

for whatever the New Year brings. He has dealt with life
at its source. In Christ he has disposed of a thousand
enemies that other men must face alone and unprepared.
He can face his tomorrow cheerful and unafraid because
yesterday he turned his feet into the ways of peace and
today he lives in God. The man who has made God his
dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.”
Aiden W. Tozer

“A setback is a setup for a comeback.”

T.D. Jakes

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 SCRIPTURAL GUIDE
FOR YOUR NEW YEAR

This is the day that the Lord has made.

I will rejoice and be glad in it.

Look Back on His Blessings

God is always faithful, and if we look at the past year, we’ll

find that he has been with us and has been working in our
lives—even when we don’t realize it!

“Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his
face always. Remember the wonders he has
done, his miracles, and the judgments he
pronounced.”
– 1 Chronicles 16:11–12
“Every good and perfect gift is from above,
coming down from the Father of the
heavenly lights, who does not change like
shifting shadows.”
– James 1:17
“A blessing for you, because the Lord your
God loves you.”
– Deuteronomy 23:5
“Because of the Lord’s great love we are
not consumed, for his compassions never
fail.  They are new every morning; great is
your faithfulness. I say to myself, ‘The Lord is
my portion; therefore I will wait for him.’”
– Lamentations 3:22–24

“Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;

make known among the nations what he has
done.”
– 1 Chronicles 16:8

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 Focus on the Future and
God’s Plans for You
God is walking with you, planning for you, and He will
give you insight and perspective for the new year.

““Forget the former things; do not dwell “In their hearts humans plan their course,
on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! but the Lord establishes their steps.”
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? – Proverbs 16:9
I am making a way in the wilderness and
streams in the wasteland.” “If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has
– Isaiah 43:18–19 come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
– 2 Corinthians 5:17
“’I know the plans I have for you,’ declares
the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not
to harm you, plans to give you hope and a
future. ‘”
– Jeremiah 29:11

We spend January first walking through our lives, room by

room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.
Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through
the rooms of our lives. .. not looking for flaws, but for potential.”

Ellen Goodman
 Plan Ahead for the
Coming Year
While we’re reflecting on the year that has gone and the
year about to come, it’s important to plan ahead. People
who set goals and write them down are 75 percent more
likely to attain them! The Bible is filled with directives for
helping you hear the goals and plans God has for you.

“A wise man thinks ahead; a fool doesn’t and “Be sure you know the condition of your
even brags about it!” flocks, give careful attention to your herds.”
– Proverbs 13:16 TLB – Proverbs 27:23

“Suppose one of you wants to build a tower.

 
“May he give you the desire of your heart
Won’t you first sit down and estimate the and make all your plans succeed.”
cost to see if you have enough money to – Psalm 20:4
complete it? For if you lay the foundation
and are not able to finish it, everyone who
sees it will ridicule you, saying, ‘This person
began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’”
– Luke 14:28–30

“So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning,

however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters
the mustard seed germinates and roots itself.”

Florence Nightingale
GOD IS ENOUGH THIS YEAR
C o m m i t to g o i nto t h e y e ar w i t h g rat i t u d e ,
c o n s ta ntly l o o k i n g f o r G o d at w o rk .

As we come into the new year, it’s important to remember that God has set the
container of our new year to be a space where we can find fullness. It is a container
of his grace and purpose in our lives. We also need to give thanks for all that he has
done for us in the past year, and for what he will do in the year to come.

“Not that I speak from want, for I have “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and
learned to be content in whatever his courts with praise; give thanks to him
circumstances I am. I know how to get and praise his name.”
along with humble means, and I also – Psalm 100:4
know how to live in prosperity; in any “Thanks be to God! He gives us the
and every circumstance I have learned victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
the secret of being filled and going – 1 Corinthians 15:57
hungry, both of having abundance
“Whatever you do, whether in word or
and suffering need. I can do all things
deed, do it all in the name of the Lord
through Him who strengthens me.”
Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father
– Philippians 4:11–13 NASB
through him.”
“A heart at peace gives life to the body, – Colossians 3:17
but envy rots the bones.”
– Proverbs 14:30
“He has said to me, ‘My grace is
sufficient for you, for power is
perfected in weakness.’. .. Therefore
I am well content with weaknesses,
with insults, with distresses, with
persecutions, with difficulties, for
Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then
I am strong.”
– 2 Corinthians 12:9–10 NASB

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 Some More Scriptures to
Bring You into the New Year
“Sing to the Lord a new song; sing
to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to
the Lord, praise his name; proclaim
his salvation day after day. Declare his
glory among the nations, his marvelous
deeds among all peoples.”
– Psalm 96: 1–3
“You crown the year with Your
goodness, and Your paths drip with
abundance.”
– Psalm 65:11
“A new song for a new day rises up in
me every time I think about how he
breaks through for me! Ecstatic praise
pours out of my mouth until everyone
hears how God has set me free. Many
will see his miracles; they’ll stand in
awe of God and fall in love with him!”
– Psalm 40:3 TPT
“If anyone is enfolded into Christ, he
has become an entirely new creation.
All that is related to the old order has
vanished. Behold, everything is fresh
and new. And God has made all things
new.”
– 1 Corinthians 5:17–18 TPT
“The one sitting on the throne said,
‘See, I am making all things new!’ And
then he said to me, ‘Write this down,
for what I tell you is trustworthy and
true.’”
– Revelation 21:5
“There is surely a future hope for you,
and your hope will not be cut off.”
– Proverbs 23:18
“You will still be eating last year’s
harvest when you will have to move it
out to make room for the new.”
– Leviticus 26:10
“The land you are crossing the Jordan
to take possession of is a land of
mountains and valleys that drinks rain
from heaven. It is a land the Lord your
God cares for; the eyes of the Lord
your God are continually on it from the
beginning of the year to its end.”
– Deuteronomy 11:11–12
 Prophecy for the
New Year
I created time to serve you; it is a
resource for you. In it I can reveal my
love day upon day, moment upon moment.
Before I ever created you, I dreamed of you
for an eternity. There are so many things I
put inside you that will find more expression
and placement this year. I have talents,
skills, relationships, resources, ministries,
projects, and purposes all to be revealed
in this coming year that will show you the
depth of my love for you. They’ll create so
much faith in you that you will also be able
to call out what you see I have put in others.
You are called to live a life that is overflowing.
John 10:10 was a prophecy to you—I have
called you to live a life that is not half empty
or half full, but overflowing. You are going to
walk in this flow and it will be the year of my
favor for you. Favor looks like something—
it’s an unfair advantage over people and
systems that don’t operate with me. It’s unfair
resources that you have no ability to earn
through normal means. It’s unfair favor with
people who would normally not be accessible
to you. It’s unfair victories for problems that
others will maybe never see a resolution to,
but I have already won them for you.
The enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy,
but I can recreate the fullness of opportunity
for every battle that felt lost last year and for
every hope that has been wounded. I have
seen every relationship issue, health issue,
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financial issue, and justice issue in your life,
and I will use all things the enemy meant for
evil to serve your good. I will use what has
been used against you to be building blocks for
you (Romans 8:28).
I am going to give you back time you felt
was stolen, or that you felt you wasted, as
you surrender your time and heart to me. I
will accelerate your time now, making what
would normally take years take months,
what would take weeks take days.
I love process because we find each other
deeper in the process, but I am not trying
to make you learn through the hard things
or make lessons out of the crises. I can
teach you more through my goodness than
I can by allowing hardship. Suffering in this
world will happen, but I will use goodness
as your mentor of love to write my manual
“God specializes in giving people a fresh start.”
Rick Warren
of life on your heart. I will use suffering to
serve you, but I will not allow it to overtake
you. I can teach you a hundred times as
fast through my goodness than through
painful circumstances; they were never my
intended vehicle for you, but because I love
you, I make the enemy who steals pay back
seven times what he stole.
You are going to have a good year. Focus on
seeing the good. Don’t let cyclical thoughts
lead you to see the bad or the negative, but
focus on what is good, right, and noble. The
good already outweighs any hardship by
a landslide. Train yourself to see it and you
will wake up with new excitement and more
dedication to your days.
I love you and give you this container of time
to spend as a gift. Use it to love. Use it to
grow. Use it to thrive.
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 Prayer for The New Year
G od, I give you my time, which is
my most precious commodity
you have given me this side of
eternity. I give you space to create
more of yourself in me. I commit to
daily time with you to develop our
deep connection. I open my heart
to you and listen with hungry ears. I
will look for you in my days. I will pay
attention to your signposts and to the
people you put in front of me.
God, help me to be intentional about
my time with you in the Word and
also in prayer and worship. I pray that
you would help me to be a community
builder in my relationships and family,
and also in a local church. I ask that I
would be a great source of strength
to my friends and family, with a
listening heart and wise counsel. I
also pray that you would give my
community even more understanding
of me and that you would give us lots
of teachable moments together as
we grow in love. I also ask you to help
me to live out and be the love written
about in 1 Corinthians 13—to my
community and in relationships. Help
me to be quick to forgive, slow to
anger, and rich in love, and help me to
receive this honor back through these
relationships.
Holy Spirit, I pray that this year I
would be brave to do new things,
accomplish new goals, and meet new
people. Take me out of my comfort
zone; give me missions I wouldn’t
normally take that will bear fruit I
wouldn’t normally eat. I pray that you
would keep expanding my capacity to
walk in all you have for me.
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Father, I pray for the resources to
accomplish everything you have for
me this year. Pour out all I will need to
do all you are calling me to. I ask, also,
that I would be a resource center for
others, and that through my talents,
skills, time, and energy, I would be
able to be a great giver this year.
Thank you for the opportunity to love
the unloved and help strangers this
year. I pray that I won’t look past who
you put in front of me, and I commit
to obey the love I feel inside me. Help
me to be kind, generous, sensitive,
concerned, empathetic, and have
great boundaries.
Help me define my yes this year, and
help me to keep my yes so I can stay
focused. Help it to be easy to say no to
everything I am not supposed to do,
even the good things, so I can maintain
my yes to what I am supposed to do.
I pray for an abundance of spiritual and
natural fruitfulness. I ask that I would
hear you and that you would activate
me even more in your spiritual gifts,
and in your presence, so I would feel
the contentment in my relationship
with you that only you can bring.
Thank you already for this year, and I
ask for the grace to live it really well. In
the name of your Son, Jesus, AMEN!

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are
going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called
Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”

Edith Lovejoy Pierce

 DECLARATION
FOR THIS YEAR

This year I am believing God:

• That my relationship with God will deepen and that I will hear him more and
understand what to do with what he says to me.

• That the Bible will be more approachable and useful, being a full tool that will bear
fruit with each reading. That I will have time to read it daily and that the Holy Spirit
will lead my journey through devotionals, books, podcasts, church services, events,
friendship, family, and mentoring.

• For inspiration to set goals, and to partner with God’s will with more clarity and
strategy than I have ever experienced before. That as God does new things in my
life, they would inspire me to build more and more in the world around me through my
faith.

• That I would have a deeper connection to my family and friends than ever before.
I declare that my family promises will be fulfilled and that heaven will invest tangible
fruit into the promises and prayers I have made for my spouse, children, grandchildren,
friends, and community.

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 • That I would celebrate the moments that God, those close to me, and I have
had— accomplishments, breakthroughs, and birthdays. Also that I would honor
the Sabbath and rest weekly, and rest through the ritual of holidays I actively
participate in.

• For time redeemed: I declare that the enemy can’t have any of my weeks, days,
or hours this year. I declare that I am covered by the love and blood of Jesus and that
no weapon, even if formed against me, will prosper. I declare that no sickness, conflict,
or case against me will wound me, but that I am more than a conqueror this year
through Christ Jesus who loves me.

• For new projects to be authored in my spirit for my talents and gifts. That projects
that have already been authored will be worked on to completion. That Jesus will
come as the finisher of my faith and help me finish everything I have started.

• For more creativity, ingenuity, and transformation. That I will get to know God as
the Creator and that I will co-create with him in my life—in new ways for me, but also
in new ways the world has never seen before.

I declare that my year will be a well-constructed space for God’s love to be revealed to me, in me,
and through me every day. I declare that I will be obedient to love whenever I feel prompted or
nudged by the Holy Spirit, and that this will be a year of great spiritual and natural fruitfulness.
AMEN!
RELATIONSHIPS
FAMILY, SPOUSE, KIDS,
FRIENDS, AND COMMUNITY

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BREAKTHROUGH

'�sfor me and my house,

we will serve the Lord."

Joshua 24:15

"God sets the lonely infamilies, he leads out

the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious
live in a sun-scorched land."

Psalm68:6

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 RELATIONSHIPS

Here are your keys for breakthrough in your relationships. God's

breakthrough works best on this side of eternity for the goal or
purpose of relationship.

BREAKTHROUGH
PROPHECY
Part of experiencing My breakthrough for you is allowing Me to
make your family, friends, and community one of your primary
promised-land experiences. I have made you for relationships
and I will surround you with them. I am creating your inner and
outer circle with you and for you as the expression of My heart
to reveal the deepest part of My love to you and through you
to them. You are a powerful developer of family, friends, and
community through Me. I have created within you everything
you need to express My love to your spouse, your children,
your parents, your siblings, your friends, and your community.
I have given you the ability to produce healthy and powerful
relationships. Ask for My love and I will give you the emotional
intelligence to express it in epic ways.

Through your relationships I am going to bring about the most

connectedness you could ever feel. I am going to bring the right
attachment to you and each of your relationships and it will
sustain you through the hard times; but it will also be one of
the greatest celebratory devices you could possibly experience.

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BREAKTHROUGH

I am going to bring an incubator of purpose through your closest

relationships. You will not feel alone or isolated. My desire for
you is to have relationships that will bring out My colors and My
image from your life. I am going to use your social circle to bring
you courage to take giant leaps of faith.

I have given you the ability to have breakthrough in your

relational situations through My will and desire for you
in situations that would normally break down families or
relationships. When you are wounded or hurt by something
your relational circle does or says, lean into Me and I will bring
My breakthrough into your very being. I will cause the wounds
to build a deeper connection with Me and to them, even when
things get damaged or feel unreconcilable. I will restore your
heart and I can restore your relationship to them, even if it looks
broken. I will give you forgiveness and reconnect you.

You are not alone; your relationships are some of the greatest
treasures I will use to develop My nature in you-and you can
trust My nature. I sent My Son, Jesus, so He could reconcile
you to My original plan: connection to Me and connection to
other people. Your relationships are a powerful tool that can
be the greatest display of what eternal life looks like because of
your love for one another. Your love for others will help people
want to know Me, to know My Son. People will know this is
what they were made for as well. People will see your marriage,
your fathering or mothering, your extended family, your close

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friendships, and watch you work through the same struggles but
with the help of My spirit, who will lead you into deeper love
instead of drifting apart.

People will see how you love even when someone needs
correction. You will not punish but will bring about conviction
and discipline that will cause them to trust you and bond to you
even more. Your family will display My intention of love to your
community. It is meant to be a picture of My breakthrough to the
world. People will be filled with so much hope through watching
you love well relationally.

I will cause you to be such a family person. Your family is also

meant to be everlasting; the way you are building with them now
will have a reflection in eternity. Love well, love like Me, and I
will pour My ever-refilling love back into you.

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PRAVER
God, I ask You to empower me by implementing Your
original plan over my family and relational structure. Bring
the breakthrough needed to bring Your purpose over us into
being through Your divine love. Give me the right alignment of
connection with each friend and family member I have. Help
me to prioritize sharing my life with them with my time, energy,
resources, emotions, and spirit. Show me how to pray for them
and enlarge my capacity to understand them.

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BREAKTHROUGH

Even through hardship in certain relationships, I pray, Holy

Spirit, that You would keep me thinking and believing with the
Father's perspective. Gift me with breakthrough faith for each
circumstance and for each person You have called me to love.
Help me not to live out of just my experience with each person
but out of Yours. You know each of them so intimately. You know
what is in their hearts. You know their motives, their desires,
their strengths, and their destinies. Help me to know them like
You do. Help me connect to them in ways that demonstrate how
much I treasure them. Help me to not just treat them according
to how I see them but according to how You do.

When my relational circle struggles through grief, hardship, or

loss, I pray I would have faith in Your breakthrough power to
bring about Your plan-one so different to mine were I left to my
own human process. Help us to come together and strengthen
each other. Keep us all from doing life alone or in isolation. Help
us to rely on each other as we rely on You and Your strength.

I pray I would be a source of strength, love, and identity for each

person in my life, sharing not only my time with them but also
my very life. Form our interdependence by keeping us from any
codependence or unhealthy patterns. Help us to have unity in
our homes and peace in our hearts. Give us grace for mistakes.

Even as You are love, let us be love to one another: patient, kind,
slow to anger, generous. I pray You would help me to make
choices toward love even when I feel hurt or frustrated.

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 RELATIONSHIPS

I pray for each person in my relational circle to have the power

to break through into Your John 10: 10 desire for them to truly
thrive. I ask that You would bring us into Your thriving plan and
break off any of the plans of the enemy-who comes to steal,
kill, and destroy.

God of the breakthrough, bring breakthrough to my

relationships!

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DECLARATION
I declare that the God of breakthrough is making
me a powerful builder of family, relationships,
and community. I am empowered to create an
amazing family through marriage, childbirth, and
adoption; through creating epic friendships; and
through being a leader to my extended family and
a real member who blesses my community.

I believe everyone in my family and friendship

network will have an opportunity to know and
fully love God because of our connection. I
declare that my whole household will be saved,
walking in their full connection with God in
complete destiny.

My family, household, and relationships will

be blessed! We will be blessed in our extended
families, careers, spiritual gifts, talents, and
opportunities. In everything we do and
everywhere we go, the God of breakthrough will
help us succeed. He surrounds us with favor like
a shield, and no weapon formed against us can
prosper. What the Lord has blessed, no one can
curse.

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 RELATIONSHIPS

The God of breakthrough is bringing my family

into their promised land, both individually and
corporately. He will author and finish His will for us
in our lifetimes, and nothing will be cut short.

God will break through any places we get stuck in

relationally or financially, in our health, or in any
other area that would bring about pain, destruction,
or brokenness. God will cut offany plans of the enemy
to steal from us, kill us, or destroy our connections. He
will bring us into the life He planned for us, a life that
is abundant and full through our Savior, Jesus Christ.

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 "Love isn't when there are
no fights in the relationship.
Love is when once the fight ends,
love is still there."
-Unknown

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