Since we have some new readers, please let me take a moment at this point to repeat a post from the beginning of this blog in which I stated my aim and plan for most of my posts: “My desire herein is to present excerpts from the Word of God written in such a way that they can be “preached” to myself or yourself. Preached out loud, repetitiously and intentionally. Repetitiously to let the Word be active and alive in my mind, and intentionally to take thoughts captive to make them obedient to Christ.

I desire to have the Word of God rolling around in my mind in plenteous quantity to be mused and meditated on throughout the day: spoken aloud, answering questions that come to mind, starting or stopping behaviors, and seasoning verbal responses.

So from time to time I will post excerpts from the Word of God, ready to be ingrafted into my thinking and speaking; ready to guide my thoughts and corral my feeling.”

I give thanks to you today, Lord, that you chose me to be saved through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth; that you called me through your gospel so that I would obtain the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. So then, in Christ, I stand firm and hold to what your word teaches, Lord.  I believe, Lord Jesus, that you and God, my father, love me and give to me eternal comfort and good hope through grace.  By your grace, Lord, you comfort my heart and establish my heart in every good work and word.

Father, you and the Lord Jesus are faithful. You establish me and guard me against the evil one. By your eternal presence I am doing and will do the things you command. You, Lord Jesus, direct my heart to see and receive the love of God, the Father, and to take assurance and hope from your steadfastness as the Christ. You, the Lord of peace, give me peace at all times and in every way. You, my Lord, are with me.

I thank you, Lord, that by your grace and presence my faith is growing abundantly and my love for others is increasing. Fill me, Lord, that I will be steadfast in all circumstances and endure all tests.  For I believe that I will see a day when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not obey the gospel of Jesus, the Christ. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction away from the presence of the Lord and away from the glory of his might.

I pray today, Lord, that you make me worthy of your calling and that today I fulfill every resolve of good and every work of faith by your power that dwells in me. Hallelujah!

When the lawless one is revealed the Lord Jesus will kill him with the breath of his mouth and bring the lawless plans to nothing by the appearance of  His coming. All are condemned who do not believe the truth, but instead take pleasure in unrighteousness.

Today I receive grace, mercy and peace from God, my father, and Christ Jesus, my Lord. I pray that I will be a good steward of the truth and presence of God.  The aim of my walk in Christ today is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. I do not swerve from these and I avoid vain discussions. I do not engage in anything that is contrary to sound doctrine in accordance with the gospel of the glory of God.

I received mercy from God and the grace of my Lord Jesus overflows for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. It is true to say that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy to show God’s perfect patience to those who believe in him for eternal life. To the king of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever.

I receive this charge in accordance with your calling, Father, that by your grace and presence I will wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience.

My Lord Jesus, the Christ, has obtained a ministry that is much more excellent than the old (priesthood ministry) as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.  In the new covenant the father says, “I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God and they shall be my people; they shall know me from the least of them to the greatest for I will be merciful towards their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more. ” In speaking so of the new covenant, my heavenly father makes the first one obsolete, ready to vanish away.

When Christ appeared as the high priest of the good things that have come…, he entered once for all into the holy places, by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.  How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify my conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to Him who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his reverence.  Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey (harken, submit, listen) him, being designated by God a high priest.

Lord, I pray I will mature in your word; that I will “hear” you every day, all day; that my powers of discernment are trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil and to always choose and follow good.  I have tasted the goodness and the power of your word and “felt” your presence alive in me. I am sure of the hope I have in Christ and, therefore, I am not sluggish, but an imitator of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.  I hold fast to the hope set before me. Fill me with your faith and endurance today, Lord.

Today, I look to Jesus, the founder and perfector of my faith. I keep my thoughts on him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself so that I do not grow weary or faint hearted. I thank you, Lord, that you discipline the ones you love. You have disciplined me for my good that I may share your Holiness. Therefore, I lift up drooping hands and strengthen weakened knees and head in straight paths.

I see to it that I and anyone who asks do obtain the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up to defile and cause trouble.  I hold onto and value highly the birthright God, my father, has decreed and Jesus, my Lord, has provided. I am, by God’s grace, one of the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven.  I am grateful to receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and I give my God worship with reverence and awe.

Lord, I do not account my life as precious to me;  if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I have received from you, Lord Jesus; that is to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.   That I would believe and live out, and then declare things that are profitable, the whole counsel of God, that is repentance towards God, the father, and faith in the Lord Jesus, the Christ.

I commend myself and those whom you have given me, Lord, to God the Father and to the word of your grace, which is able to build each of us up and to give us the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

I believe that the God of my fathers has appointed me to know his will, to “see” the righteous one and to “hear” his words. I am to be a witness for him to whomever he sends me to and to whomever is sent to me. By your grace, Lord, I will live and preach your grace.

I believe that you, Jesus, the Christ, died for my sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that you were buried, that you were raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that you appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then you appeared to more than 500 brothers at one time, most of whom were still alive when these words were written.

” If Christ had not been raised, then our preaching And our faith would be in vain. But, in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For Christ is the first fruit, then at His coming those who belong to Christ.  Then comes the end when he delivers the kingdom to God, the father, after destroying every rule and every authority and power.”

I know that what is sown does not come to life unless it dies. So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.  It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.

Today, father, I give you worship with reverence and awe. I am grateful to be in your kingdom, a kingdom that cannot be shaken. You, father, are a consuming fire.

My Lord Jesus has told me he will never leave me nor forsake me. “The Lord is my helper, I do not fear, what can man do to me?”  Jesus is the same yesterday and today and forever. I will not be led away by diverse and strange teachings. Through Jesus, my Lord, I continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is the fruit of my lips that acknowledge his name.

I obey my leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over my soul. Let them be wise, obedient leaders who lead with joy and not with groaning.

Father, you are the God of peace; you brought the Lord Jesus again from the dead.  Equip me today with everything good that I may do your will; work in me that which is pleasing in your sight through Jesus the Christ.