My new year's equation

I am not a "Math" person. I'll take Grammar, English,Writing, History and even Science over Math. Word problems and higher level thinking reasoning problems have always thrown me for a loop. Even the simple equations can make me sweat.

However, I do know one equation that is figured up in my heart and mind for this new year ahead.

And I already know the outcome!

Prayer + Praise = Fullness with Christ

Give me this day (and the days yet to come) my Daily Bread, Lord! May Your Word refresh me even more than ever before so that prayer and praise are MAGNIFIED in my life.. so that YOU ARE MAGNIFIED in my life!  Thank You for a new year filled with Your riches,  pleasures and adventures! I am Yours. Be Master of my day today and the days, months, years ahead. I'm ready for 2013~

Christ Alone ( Valley of Vision)
O God,
Thy main plan, and the end of thy will
is to make Christ glorious and beloved
in heaven
where He is now ascended,
where one day all the elect will behold His glory
and love and glorify Him for ever.
Though here I love Him but little,
may this be my portion at last.
In this world thou hast given me a beginning,
one day it will be perfected in the realm above.
Thou hast helped me to see and know Christ,
though obscurely,
to take Him, receive Him,
to possess Him, love Him,
to bless Him in my heart, mouth, life.Let me study and stand for discipline,
and all the ways of worship, 
out of the love for Christ;
and to show my thankfulness;
to seek and know His will from love,
to hold it in love,
and daily to care for and keep this state of heart.
Thou hast led me to place all my nature and happiness
in oneness with Christ,
in having heart and mind centered only on Him,
in being like Him in communicating good 
to others;
This is my heaven on earth,
But I need the force, energy, impulses of thy Spirit
to carry me on the way to my Jerusalem.
Here, it is my duty 
to be as Christ in this world,
to do what He would do,
to love as He would live,
to walk in love and meekness;
then would He be known,
then would I have peace in death.