You are the God who told Abraham, "I am who I am."  You are the God who told the Jews, "Before Abraham was born, I am!"  So today, I pray to the Great I AM, the God who was before all things and is self-existent and self-sufficient.  No one can add to You or detract from You.  No one can give to You anything that isn't rightly Yours.  Nor can anyone take from You anything that You haven't chosen to release.  You are before time and space.  You are outside of time and space.  You created time and space.
    I AM, I bow in Your presence.  I worship You because You are worthy to be praised.  Even if You never did another thing for Your creatures, You remain worthy to be praised.  But You don't stop on Your past works.  You don't stand on Your laurels of creation and sustaining this world and now tell us we are on our own.  You don't even stop with the redeeming work of the shed blood of Jesus Christ which takes away the sin of the world.  No, Lord who is the I AM, You seek us every day, You pursue us.  You come for us and pick us out the pits of our own making.  You speak truth over us and wrap us in Your love.  How could I not praise You when I stop to consider?
    You, the To Be of all things, are God, the unchanging, the invisible, the eternal, the unstoppable.  Yet You are compassionate and generous, slow to anger and abounding in love.  You are patient and forgiving.  You have extended mercy to a thousand generations of those who love You.  You hold back Your wrath upon this generation.  And I thank You for it.  I thank You for not calling us to account today, but giving us one more chance by faith to seek You in return.  Thank You for the chance to be still and know that You are God.  The I AM God who was and IS and is to come, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.
    In the beginning of this new year, I yield to Your greatness.  I praise You and worship You because You are God, the I AM.
    In Jesus' name, Amen