Hebrews 12

Hallelujah, thank you, Father, for making me your child and for dealing with me as a loving, wise Father would deal. You have chastened me when I needed it, and that has been to my profit. You have made me a joyful partaker of your holiness.

Now that discipline hasn’t always seemed joyful, but now it has yielded a peaceful fruit of righteousness in me as you have trained me.

So, I am standing. I am “manning” up. I am setting my face on you, Lord Jesus, and my feet are following your path. Those things in me that are dislocated are being healed by your word and by the person of your Holy Spirit communing in my thoughts and prayers.

I pursue peace with all. I looked carefully at the issues of each day so that I will stay in you, Christ Jesus, and never fall short. I am quick to forgive, so that no root of bitterness takes hold of me.

I value the inheritance you have given me, Father, above anything this world has to offer. For now, I have come to Mount Zion, and there I remain and worship you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with all your angels and with all your redeemed.